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Post subject: Interesting Strat
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:03 pm
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This guitar has spent about 15yrs in bits in a box .I worked as a sound engineer back in the 90s and worked on an Iron Maiden UK tour .The guitar was one of Janik Gers and ended up in a box because a guitar tech had broken the nut .the pickguard was put on another guitar and the rest ended up in the back of a truck in a Walkers crisps box.A few weeks after the shows finished I found it while cleaning out the truck and was told I could keep the bits .Fast forward to last year and I found them while moving house (still in crisp box) I dropped bits into Derick Nelson in Dublin who repaired the neck and put a delux scratch plate with hand wound 69s and set it up.I think it looks great and plays better ,dont know much about Hector Montez but he can make lovely necks :)
Anyway what do you guys think?
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Post subject: Re: Interesting Strat
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:54 pm
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It's nice to bring something back to life again isn't it? It always amazes me to see a bunch of bits and parts end up sounding wonderful when put back together again. I'm moving to Dublin in April and looking for a good luthier myself - Where is he located?


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Post subject: Re: Interesting Strat
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:55 pm
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He's in Marley Park he's one of the best in Europe and he seems to do work for most of the tax dodging rock stars resident in Ireland :lol: :lol: I just lent the guitar to a better player than me to do a few gigs with it will try and get a video up Im still amazed that it sat for so long and needed very little work to get it back to a great instrument WELL DONE FENDER :)


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