Guitar butchers

these are all actually reasonable players aside from the dudes preference for 9s set too low. Hard to judge them tonally with that setup, too. But cool.

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Back on topic, I butchered a 1960s Tele in the 1970s when I chiseled and hacked at the body to install a Dimarzio that ended up sounding awful, so I crudely filled in the hole with wood paste, but then needed a replacement pickup cause the winding got severed when I tried putting it back in. Oh, and I used a butane lighter to enlarge the pick guard hole (there might’ve been some weed involved at that point). I also yanked out the frets and then hammered in some bass frets, and then shellacked the neck!

But still played that Tele happily throughout the 1980s. Here’s a pic jamming on it at my brother’s bachelor party in the mid 1980s.

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Sold it as is in the early 1990s. Sometimes I wonder where that battered Tele ended up.
 
Jazz Padd said:
Back on topic, I butchered a 1960s Tele in the 1970s when I chiseled and hacked at the body to install a Dimarzio that ended up sounding awful, so I crudely filled in the hole with wood paste, but then needed a replacement pickup cause the winding got severed when I tried putting it back in. Oh, and I used a butane lighter to enlarge the pick guard hole (there might’ve been some weed involved at that point). I also yanked out the frets and then hammered in some bass frets, and then shellacked the neck!

But still played that Tele happily throughout the 1980s. Here’s a pic jamming on it at my brother’s bachelor party in the mid 1980s.

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Sold it as is in the early 1990s. Sometimes I wonder where that battered Tele ended up.
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I’m sure it’s listed somewhere as “signs of overspray. Possible refin. Great players grade vintage tele. $12,000”
 
gearJunkie said:
Maybe, but not very well in my experience.

I stopped installing the bar in mine because it would go out of tune just by looking at it.
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I had one on my A-15V (which just happens to be butchered by me) but replaced it with a Kahler because it is smoother. The Wonder Bar was pretty solid for tuning stability.
 
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