How do, all...

Okay, I'm new here. Been away from the music scene for almost 20 years. Prior to that, I played bass in numerous local bands (Tucson, AZ) and collected a ridiculous amount of equipment. Then, marriage, mortgage and middle age krept in and I put away/sold all my toys.

A couple years ago I got a new job... right across the street from a Guitar Center (forgive me, Lord)... Guess where I spend my lunch most every day now.

Suddenly, I'm playing again and discovered a new passion... building guitars! I'm scanning the site for all sorts of new nuggets of info... and will occaissionally throw my 2¢ in.

Sometimes when you take a break from something then come back to it you can get a new outlook on it and in some cases actually improve over time.

As for building guitars I always wanted to but never did...I have a few cool guitar shape concepts though which I never shared and hope to build or have someone build for me someday.



[Edited on 1/30/2007 by Spidercents]

Yeah, it's been an interesting adventure. I still consider myself a newbie in guitar construction (only doing it about 2 years). Most of what I've done can be considered Frankencasters... salvage some poor, misused/abused relic, strip out the guts and strip off the finish... Sand/seal/new finish, new parts, maybe even some reshaping of the body.

My current project is a 78' Peavey T-15 that I rescued from a local "seconds" music store. Picked it up for about $60. Looked like some maniac took a Dremel to it; removing the finish, "scalloping" the neck, and painting it with some really bad varnish. The poor beast begged to be either rebuilt or burnt.

I'm opting for the former.

[Edited on 1/31/2007 by UncleWaldo]