Guitar Refurbishment by d1gz
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A guide on how to improve or fix any old guitar .
 
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Step 1: The Begining

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When I bought the guitar it was in a state of misery; the body and neck of the guitar painted in metallic purple sparkling car paint and the custom pick guard lavished in black household enamel. The wiring was a complete mess as well; with none of the ground wires soldered down properly and the bridge pickup being held in by electrical tape I wasnt sure if it was worth it.

Having said that after a bit of persuasion (4 hours and ten sheets of sand paper) it was looking a lot better also by mistake, I caught some electrical tape on the pick guard and discovered its true identity.
WickeD12 says: Nov 16, 2011. 8:57 PM
dude how many guitars do u have???
gummypaul says: Aug 1, 2010. 4:51 AM
Your images of your other guitars are right- handed. The image in step 6 is reversed. Unless you are left-handed.
Glockenator says: Dec 7, 2009. 5:54 PM
oh, that thing was have looked horrible when you got. purple and black
d1gz (author) says: Dec 9, 2009. 12:06 PM
it was soaked in the stuff it was even sparyed on the neck nut and f hole... unfourtunatley i have lossted the picture
Glockenator says: Feb 8, 2010. 1:27 PM
wow. this guy i know tried to spray a Fender Jazzmaster sparkle purple like the lead guitarist from Dinosaur Jr
d1gz (author) says: Feb 23, 2010. 9:32 AM
poor guitar
Glockenator says: Feb 24, 2010. 2:54 PM
yep . it looked horrible. he used car paint, and glitter from a craft store
teslafan100 says: Aug 5, 2009. 9:45 PM
Is that a Gibson hollow body?
guitar155263 says: Jan 16, 2010. 8:15 AM

There is a guitar body that looks the same fore sale at guitar body. Some cool stuff.

teslafan100 says: Jan 23, 2010. 4:44 PM
Thanks I checked out the website and it has some pretty cool stuff.
JuCo says: Aug 26, 2009. 6:28 PM
the closest thing to this straight from a factory would be a telecaster thinline. i looked into it, just in case you wanted one, and found that they seem to start at around 300 bucks (for the budget squier model) and about 900 for the fender model. and it only goes up from there.
d1gz (author) says: Nov 20, 2009. 11:18 AM
if u want to get even closer to the orgin of the guiat you should check out the 69 and 72 Fender Telecaster thinlines
d1gz (author) says: Aug 9, 2009. 9:20 AM
no its was custom made by a guy in london ; i bought it of a friend in x electrical
abadfart says: Nov 16, 2009. 2:24 PM
well they did a great imitation i got a les paul  knock off that i am fond of but it needs work
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