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Post subject: How disgusting is your vintage guitar?
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 8:14 am
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Mine is awful.

A little backstory: It was fresh pulled from a basement in DC when my friend found it at a garage sale. He said there was other guitar stuff there, but it was already bought. He paid $5 for it, and it was mine when I traded him some parts for it.

I hadn't pulled the guard since I first got it, so I decided to pull it today.

Water damage, flaky nitro, mold, and dried blood.

Here is what the inside of a 1979 Guild S-70 looks like.

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Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 8:15 am
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This all started after this girl told me there was nothing disgusting about my guitars. :wink: :lol:

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Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 12:30 pm
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Yes, disgusting.

I hope you gave it a good cleaning.

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Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 12:31 pm
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I'd rather not take the yellow off my white nitro.

I'm highly allergic to mold, but this guitar has lived longer than me, so it wins out.

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Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 12:32 pm
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I accidentally dripped some cleaner on it once when I was cleaning the fretboard and it went down the back somehow. There's now a white squiggly line on it.

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Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 1:48 pm
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Don't clean it; that's relicization from the inside working out, man!


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Post subject: Re: How disgusting is your vintage guitar?
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 1:53 pm
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I'll clean it once I found out if that stuff in the bottom of the swimming pool is blood or not. If it is, I'll get it DNA tested and find out who was in my guitar before me and why.

If it ain't, I'll just clean it.

But yea, I don't want to damage the nitro any more than it already is. I think any chemicals or light scrubbing would take it off at this point.

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Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 5:44 pm
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There wasn't much gunk under the pick guard of my '65 Strat when I had it pulled to install a 5 way switch. Then again, I'm the guitar's only owner and I know where it's been. :)
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I was surprised at the amount of fine dust that had accumulated under there through the years but some light wiping and a couple of shots of compressed air took care of it. Makes me wonder how much Sonoran Desert dust is under my hood. I don't think I want to know. :lol:

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Post subject: Re: How disgusting is your vintage guitar?
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 6:22 am
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I swapped pic guards on my Tele recently...I was replacing a replacement (?)...I was surprised at the dust under the guard, since that previous guard had been in place for only six years or so.

However, I usually play with out a pick (fingernails and flesh only) and this is my go-to guitar--for practice, recording, performance, noodling around the house, etc. I've probably put more hours on it than any other guitar I own, at least in the least few years. So that "dust" was probably a lot of shredded fingernail and fingertip.

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Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 6:31 am
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Screamin Armadillo wrote:
However, I usually play with out a pick (fingernails and flesh only) and this is my go-to guitar--for practice, recording, performance, noodling around the house, etc. I've probably put more hours on it than any other guitar I own, at least in the least few years. So that "dust" was probably a lot of shredded fingernail and fingertip.


Snort it, it's good protein.

You could make a rockstar protein bump and sell it for big bucks. ;) :lol:

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Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 8:21 pm
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How disgusting? Surprisingly un-disgusting for it's age.

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I went inside my vintage National when I got her, expecting to find spiders and "dust Gorillas", but nah, clean as a whistle, just like the day it was made.

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The result of one careful lady owner who kept it in the case. It's not like it hasn't been played.

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Post subject: Re: How disgusting is your vintage guitar?
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 6:23 am
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Buxom wrote:
Screamin Armadillo wrote:
However, I usually play with out a pick (fingernails and flesh only) and this is my go-to guitar--for practice, recording, performance, noodling around the house, etc. I've probably put more hours on it than any other guitar I own, at least in the least few years. So that "dust" was probably a lot of shredded fingernail and fingertip.


Snort it, it's good protein.

You could make a rockstar protein bump and sell it for big bucks. ;) :lol:


Hmm, that makes me wonder, how long now until science is ready, so one can buy a guitar previously owned by [insert big star here], extract DNA from under the pick guard, and make a clone in a country that allows human cloning?
Surely we're not that far off now.


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Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 7:48 am
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Now that i think of it, the fact that the guitar is white thin skin nitro makes it even worse. It shows EVERYTHING.

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Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 10:06 am
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Buxom wrote:
Now that i think of it, the fact that the guitar is white thin skin nitro makes it even worse. It shows EVERYTHING.

Only under UV light. So stay away from blacklit stages :)


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Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 12:08 pm
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Something, something, CSI check for semen joke, something, something.

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