Captain Ron
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I watched my boy buy a bike and then take most of the parts off and replace them with the 'right stuff' that you buy after. I thought of getting another stratocaster as I miss the two I had years ago. When looking to see what I would get I find that I would probably do the same thing, buy a guitar and then throw half the parts away and buy hot rod parts to make it better. All that advice I gave him against doing that was stareing me in the face. I decided to just buy the parts that I wanted and it would be better and cheaper than buying a guitar and just saving the decal and changing everything else. I have some experience, you know at doing that kind of thing. When I was in college a kid who I barely knew came up to me and said, "Here take this guitar and amp and mike and give me two hundred bucks, I am in trouble deep and need to get the money to extract myself from this quagmire I have embedded myself in. I will pay you back and pick up my guitar and you can use the guitar till then, within one year". He said the stuff was worth 4 times that much. I didn't play guitar and can't for the life of me figure out what combination of magic he brought to bear to talk me into that deal, but he did and I ended up with a blue '62 Stratocaster and a Fender really loud amp. At 10 minutes to midnight on the 365th day, that guy showed up at the college I went away to and found me in a bar having pizza and beer and wanted his guitar and amp back. He threw $200 down on the table and motioned to me lets go get it. By this time, a year of study beaks with the guitar later, I had made friends with the guitar and there was no way he was going to get that guitar back. After several close encounters of a violent nature we parted friends and he parted with the amp, but not with the guitar. Thats how it all started. The bottom 4 frets needed to be changed and my roommate and I took it in to the best music shop we could find. They wanted $37.50 to change those four frets, or for $3.00 they would give us enough fretwire to do the job ourselves. Well, being in college and needing to save the other $34.50 for beer we took the $3.00 option and away we went. Thats where I got the experience in guitar building you know. The third fret wouldn't stay down. I traded that guitar in without them knowing about the fret and paid $100 to boot to get a new 1975 sunburst strat. Boy did I pull the wool over on them. I think the book shows that pre CBS 62 strat at something like $40,000 today - who's foolin who? Nobody probalby cares about this anyway - I miss the strat and ordered some parts from Warmoth to build one for my very own self. I hope I can figure out how to put up a picture. It has a satin, Warmoth-pro birds-eye maple neck, bound in black with black stars on the fretboard. Gold Planet Waves auto trim tuners. I got gold screws and the gold wilkinson trem bridge and bought a set of Samarian Cobalt noiseless pickups from the Fender Custom shop and had Warmoth make me an Alder body and there you go. I will post a picture with this if I can figure it out.
Captain Ron
I watched my boy buy a bike and then take most of the parts off and replace them with the 'right stuff' that you buy after. I thought of getting another stratocaster as I miss the two I had years ago. When looking to see what I would get I find that I would probably do the same thing, buy a guitar and then throw half the parts away and buy hot rod parts to make it better. All that advice I gave him against doing that was stareing me in the face. I decided to just buy the parts that I wanted and it would be better and cheaper than buying a guitar and just saving the decal and changing everything else. I have some experience, you know at doing that kind of thing. When I was in college a kid who I barely knew came up to me and said, "Here take this guitar and amp and mike and give me two hundred bucks, I am in trouble deep and need to get the money to extract myself from this quagmire I have embedded myself in. I will pay you back and pick up my guitar and you can use the guitar till then, within one year". He said the stuff was worth 4 times that much. I didn't play guitar and can't for the life of me figure out what combination of magic he brought to bear to talk me into that deal, but he did and I ended up with a blue '62 Stratocaster and a Fender really loud amp. At 10 minutes to midnight on the 365th day, that guy showed up at the college I went away to and found me in a bar having pizza and beer and wanted his guitar and amp back. He threw $200 down on the table and motioned to me lets go get it. By this time, a year of study beaks with the guitar later, I had made friends with the guitar and there was no way he was going to get that guitar back. After several close encounters of a violent nature we parted friends and he parted with the amp, but not with the guitar. Thats how it all started. The bottom 4 frets needed to be changed and my roommate and I took it in to the best music shop we could find. They wanted $37.50 to change those four frets, or for $3.00 they would give us enough fretwire to do the job ourselves. Well, being in college and needing to save the other $34.50 for beer we took the $3.00 option and away we went. Thats where I got the experience in guitar building you know. The third fret wouldn't stay down. I traded that guitar in without them knowing about the fret and paid $100 to boot to get a new 1975 sunburst strat. Boy did I pull the wool over on them. I think the book shows that pre CBS 62 strat at something like $40,000 today - who's foolin who? Nobody probalby cares about this anyway - I miss the strat and ordered some parts from Warmoth to build one for my very own self. I hope I can figure out how to put up a picture. It has a satin, Warmoth-pro birds-eye maple neck, bound in black with black stars on the fretboard. Gold Planet Waves auto trim tuners. I got gold screws and the gold wilkinson trem bridge and bought a set of Samarian Cobalt noiseless pickups from the Fender Custom shop and had Warmoth make me an Alder body and there you go. I will post a picture with this if I can figure it out.
Captain Ron
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