This isn't THE guitar, but it's the same year/model.
Someone had dropped it off for my uncle to setup and he never came back for it. My uncle was sick of hanging onto it due to the case being fairly obnoxious and I wasn't shutting up about wanting to play guitar after the Floyd show so on Christmas day I was told to close my eyes and he put the case in my lap.
In 7th grade, 2 years after I got it, a dude across the street saw/heard me playing on my porch and came up to shoot the shit, eventually saw the Warlock and asked me if I wanted to trade it for a cheap Playboy Distortion/Chorus pedal that had a belt-clip on it. I stupidly traded it. I spent about 20 years keeping an eye out for the same model, it had a standard Strat trem and I couldn't even find a picture of the same model online, only fixed bridge and Floyd versions.
Then I posted about it one day on a forum that no longer exists and surprise, surprise,
@Iron1 posted a picture of the exact model I was describing in reply, apparently he took it in on a trade. A Line 6 M5 and a few bucks later, it was in my hands. It was blue when it showed up, spraypainted with no clearcoat, so I stripped that off to get ready to paint Cadillac Pink but then my divorce happened and I just haven't thought about it since, until Iron1 mentions it!
I'm going to leave it on this 4x12 that's in my studio doorway, that way I can't forget about the damn thing. Part of me wants to set it up exactly like it was, with the stock pickups and Strat trem, while the other part of me wants to make it a fixed bridge and slap some badass pickups in it to actually play the thing.
The day after Christmas we hit up the pawn shops and my uncle got me this amp for like $40. I remember reading the Parana name like it sounded sooo cool and my uncle goes "Yeah, it bites!!!"
I'll snag one next time I see one on an auction site. It'd be cool to hear what these sounded like back then!
