hey ho, i love these threads ...
on my bench right now is an old Kay bass that badly needs some fret love
i love this thing, last month i put a random old japanese humbucker ( ? ) into it because it arrived from the states with a Gibson Marauder bill lawrence clear guitar pickup in it and a gassed-off tort pickguard in a million little pieces ...
i've been playing a lot lately ( and haven't posted here for 2 months ... ) i've been gigging with the one on the right ( an earlier 50's number ) for a year or so and i love it, i've written so many songs on it this winter.
also on the bench is my laptop with my squarespace site ...
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which is slowly approaching something that i'd like to show to somebody.
next week i'll throw this ol' thing on there ( the bench that is ) and figure out how to put it back together ...
iirc i had the chance to buy this deluxe about 12 - 15 years ago ( ! ) and even then it had a broken neck ... the current owner has snapped it at least once again in the interim ... and now here it is again looking like a very familiar site to any guitar repairer - if it wasn't for glueing up beheaded gibsons and syringing super glue into ovations we'd all be out of a job.
this week i will also update some of my build threads over on the projects section, they've slipped under in a tidal wave of brilliant insurgent guitar building that's going on around here!
cheers,
AP
PS this post took me about half an hour due to the shit fight going on at flickr re: unlinked url posting of photos ... ouch !