NGD: Squeletron

[woody]

What's in the box?


A 2015 Squier Vintage Modified Cabronita Tele:


It has a big chip on the upper edge and some dings in the neck and the seller felt bad about that so it was an absolute steal.
I will fill the neck dings with CA glue and scrape and sand them flat, as I find them a bit distracting.
Thinking about doing some kintsugi style gold nonsense with the chip in the body.

Other than that is this guitar is good fun and sounds great.
I raised the neck PU half a turn and lowered the Bridge PU a quarter turn of the screws, and I really like it.
Chimey, aggressive, well balanced.
Sounds plain bad in clean clean, think Jazz Chorus, but as soon as you give it the tiniest break up, it's super nice.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Nice. I always wanted one of the squier cabronitas but frustrated that they only ever sold them in black.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Always dug these teles. Congrats!

 

[TSJMajesty]

I want that carpet. Or wall covering. Or whatever it is.

 

[woody]

I actually did it.
Some years ago someone gifted my wife a tiny sheet of edible leaf gold for reasons we don't quite understand.
We opened the package, looked at it once, flabbergasted, and it lived in our kitchen cupboard ever since.
So I had this weird idea to make this chip a feature of the guitar, kintsugi style.
I put a dab of CA glue gel at the bottom of it and laid, like, a square cm of gold foil on it with a fine brush.
Drying out the foil crinkled really hard, so it's more looking like gold dust, now.
I filled the chip with layers of clear CA glue, scraped and sanded it flat.
I went a little overboard with scraping on one little spot and I need to get new car polish to further buff the area, but this really looks like a feature of the guitar, now.
Fun little project and the first time I really went in to "fix" a chip in the finish of a guitar. I learnt quite a bit.