anyone have pics of Syd Barrett's psychedelic tele?

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Re: anyone have pics of Syd Barrett's psychedelic tele?

Post by dain » Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:42 pm

DarrelT wrote: Have you ever seen the Tele with the "invisible" paint job that shows up under black lights?
http://tele.protozoic.com/guitar/tele-ghost/index.html
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Re: anyone have pics of Syd Barrett's psychedelic tele?

Post by glimmertwin » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:06 pm

I know laundry detergent glows in black light - maybe that's a start...or maybe a better start is to go to your local head shop and see what type of black light paint they have.  You have to ask yourself, what would hippies do?
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Re: anyone have pics of Syd Barrett's psychedelic tele?

Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:51 am

glimmertwin wrote: You have to ask yourself, what would hippies do?
Sell the Tele. Then buy a cheap acoustic & a big bag of weed!!  :D
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Re: anyone have pics of Syd Barrett's psychedelic tele?

Post by fuzzjunkie » Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:34 pm

i've seen the "ghost" finish...the shop is in Tacoma, not Seattle though...cool idea, but the execution...it's kind of like those light show Rickenbackers... :-\

i think i remember a guitar on ebay that had mirrors on it, but not the flat disks like on Syd's, these were those wide angle domed ones that give a fish eye view and were in 3-4 different sizes...kinda creepy in a psych kind of way.

one cool trick with the black light paints is if you over spray it with...say black Krylon...while it's still wet...everything melts together and gets all swirly...then coat it with clear  :P
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Re: anyone have pics of Syd Barrett's psychedelic tele?

Post by RumorsOFsurF » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:18 pm

PorkyPrimeCut wrote:
glimmertwin wrote: You have to ask yourself, what would hippies do?
Sell the Tele. Then buy a cheap acoustic & a big bag of weed!!  :D
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Re: anyone have pics of Syd Barrett's psychedelic tele?

Post by kuel » Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:56 am

I think Paul Gilbert had a red RG with those weird mirrors too

The Black UV swirl idea sounds awesome, might have to try it out on the next beater!

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Re: anyone have pics of Syd Barrett's psychedelic tele?

Post by DarrelT » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:41 pm

First, I'd like to apologize for posting a pic of a non-offset, but since we were on the hippy paint theme...
Anybody got more pics of this one?
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Re: anyone have pics of Syd Barrett's psychedelic tele?

Post by dain » Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:20 pm

fuzzjunkie wrote: ...cool idea, but the execution...it's kind of like those light show Rickenbackers... :-\
oh those lightshow ricks...if i wasn't filling the tele body up with sympathetic strings i'd love to jam some Xmas lights in there and hook up a simple frequency analyzer circuit!

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