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Post subject: A tribute to my old Japanese Silver Series Tele!
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:40 am
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I would have bought this guitar new in 1995 when I was seventeen for around £240. Dispite being made from plywood, it was a great guitar which was used to record and gig with.

If I had a time machine I would go back to 1995, give myself a good hard slap and tell myself to leave the guitar alone and not fiddle with it!

Here it is around 2002ish(?) Note Fablon covered Pick Guard, and Gibson Style Knobs! Also put on a Kent Armstron Hot Rails at the Bridge. Should have left it alone! (And yes, I look like an idiot in these pictures!)

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Here it is a year or so later, painted in gold undercoat with a yellow glitter translucent top coat, and 3 ply mint scratchplate.

Sadly I threw it all back together a bit prematurely causing the hardware to sink into the paint! Doh! Should have left it alone!

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In 2007 after being stripped to bare wood and a couple of years of neglect, I decided to revive the old thing!

It got treated to a new bridge, controls and paint job. Sick of rattle cans, I used a roller with Dulux Kitchen and bathroom (!) as an undercoat (You can build it up in thick layers, and it dries really quickly) and top coated it with Ivory Dulux oil based eggshell.

I buffed it back to a vintage looking sheen, and mattified the scratch plate, added a few dings and scratches. And here she is!

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(I Still think I should have left it the original blue!)

In 2008 I learned that my nephew was learning to play the guitar, and had borrowed an acoustic from his school. I was proud to give him my old Squier to learn on!

Let's hope he looks after it better than I did!

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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 12:31 pm
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Thats Really Cool...Guys like you give musicians a good reputation 8) 8) 8) 8)


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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:52 am
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Cheers buddy! That Squier was cool.

Maybe my post will save some other poor happless Squier from a life of poor paint jobs and amaturish butchery!

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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 1:20 pm
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Neat end result at least!

I butchered my first guitar (circa 1963 Mustang) with an amateur refinish job that ended up half done. It was late 1967 and I'd decided to refinish it in red, white and blue. My buddy the drummer, who fancied himself a wood working pro (his dad in fact was) agreed to help. But making and painting signs (what his dad did) was one thing; fine finishing a guitar was another.

It ended up a total botch job. The uncle who sold it to me to begin with told me that if I sanded it all down again, he'd have it professionally painted in the shop at the big name company he worked for. So I did and handed the body to him. Never saw it again ... unknown to me, he and my aunt had serious issues and one day he just disappeared. The guitar body was not among the stuff he left behind.

But it has a sort of happy ending. I'd kept the neck, the pups and all the hardware. So not long after, I found a newer Mustang with a cracked neck in a swap shop. I matched my parts to the good body and it has lived on ever since. Thus, I still have half my first guitar -- the half I decided NOT to refinish on my own! :)


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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 1:40 pm
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That was lucky!

It's a boy thing isn't it. We just can't leave well alone!

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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 2:51 pm
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ian sheridan wrote:
That was lucky! It's a boy thing isn't it. We just can't leave well alone!


you mean that it's a "MAN THING."

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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:00 pm
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Ug, ug, ug! (beats chest with fists!)

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