The Worst Colour/Finish/Detail on a guitar - post them in.

1bassleft · Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:49 am Post subject:

I used to work for Making Music magazine and they (not me, I'm afraid) interviewed Tom Robinson (a la "2-4-6-8 Motorway", "War Baby" etc). He said something incredibly prescient; something along the lines of "I've always avoided flightcases. You put your best guitar in them and then never bother to open them up except for a gig or recording session. All of those ideas, your best creative moments, are tried out on some rubbishy junk you have lying around that you don't bother protecting."

Sure enough, my Jim Reed bass is in a flight case. I used to drag it along to every jam session because it was my only 5er. Since I got the Cort Action V as backup, I've taken it to sessions because I can't be arsed dragging the Jim Reed and its case out of the understairs cupboard. Barmy, really.

Anyhoo, here's my "worst hack" contribution. I bought this shortscale Fender Mustang bass for about £35. The seller double-boxed it and she even said she was glad I won because I wanted to bring it to life instead of salvage it for parts. Three years on, I've got a '67 pup, control plate and pots (RH), a RH scratchplate (they'll both have to be templates) but can I find a LH body? Of course not. Look at what some idiot (not the seller) did. A RH "conversion", an extra rout for a MightyMite six-string pup (FFS) and, for good measure, one of the tuners was removed and a hole cut in the treble side right through the Fender logo. Ye gods...

1bassleft · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:09 am Post subject:

Seeing as this one's overtaken the "worst guitar" thread, I thought I'd pop it here. Something Tim said in the bass section reminded me of the "Kay" bass I owned at 13. A vile plank, here's an even worse one clogging up FleebUK right now:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bass-guitar-kay-vintage_W0QQitemZ7397830923QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Checkout the quality hardware, the precise placement of neckplate, how the strings almost but don't quite pass over the polepieces and the fingerboard. Best of all, see how the neck isn't even maple (I think it may be beech Confused

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When this auction link dies, just search for Kay guitars in Fleeb. Even the "made in USA" models are junk and some idiots (like our "Mitten in Deutschland" chum) try to sell them for telephone numbers as "classics". Bubonic Plague was a long time ago, but it doesn't make it a collector's item Laughing

1bassleft · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:15 am Post subject:

And have a look at this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/lefty-LEFT-HANDED-SOUTHPAW-ONE-OF-A-KIND-CUSTOM-GUITAR_W0QQitemZ7397492164QQcategoryZ47072QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I'm talking about the guitar, not the auction totty Laughing

I wonder what gave them the revolutionary (yawn) idea for a shattered-mirror top? Oh yeah, Paul Stanley. And I wonder what gave them the idea for the revolutionary (yawn) flame body shape? Oh yeah, Steve Vai. And I wonder what gave them the idea for this pile of verbal poop?

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The Minarik Inferno is the most scientifically advanced electric guitar ever built. This flagship design features custom tone chamber engineering throughout the entire body even into the flame tongues. Every design feature on this body shape has a purpose. Increased mass on the left side of the body accent low frequencies and reduced mass on the right side increase the voice-like high frequencies. Each individual flame tongue was designed to produce a certain frequency response giving the Minarik Inferno the most balanced and widest tone spectrum unmatched by any other guitar on the market today.

Oh yeah, Ex-lax dissolved in the mouthwash.

BrianJ · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Sunny Devon UK

OK - check out this Hondo so-called LP copy. It looks like a section of the handkerchief my aunt sent me in 1963. All it needs is the snot!

lee_UK · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:36 pm Post subject:

1bassleft wrote:

Seeing as this one's overtaken the "worst guitar" thread, I thought I'd pop it here. Something Tim said in the bass section reminded me of the "Kay" bass I owned at 13. A vile plank, here's an even worse one clogging up FleebUK right now:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bass-guitar-kay-vintage_W0QQitemZ7397830923QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Laughing

LOOK AT THE ACTION ON THAT THING !!

Tim · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:08 pm Post subject:

Thats exactly what I said in the bass thread...maybe its some kind of exercise device for when you play a real guitar?!

'Want to pump-up the fingers on your left hand, we have just the thing for you...' (in a QVC voice of course)

1bassleft · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:55 am Post subject:

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OK - check out this Hondo so-called LP copy. It looks like a section of the handkerchief my aunt sent me in 1963. All it needs is the snot!

Brian. It makes me think of "EVH walks into Gieves and Hawkes and asks for a nice shirt since he's settling down and got a good job in the city"

glw · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject:

Wotsisname from Motorhead (Phil Campbell?) has got one of those Minarik jobbies. It looks over the top, but sounds good.

BrianJ · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Sunny Devon UK

Loved the Kay Bass on Fleeb - all the action needs is a shim under the neck - another bass in the joint should just about bring it up nicely!!!

1bassleft · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:43 pm Post subject:

As mentioned in the bass section, I don't understand this nostalgia. That KAy has 3 bids up to £20 now. Put that with £12 shipping and that means someone is paying £32 for the unplayable dinghy-oar. Same thing happens with Hondos (although Hondos are not quite as bad) and yet if anyone has a decent line of beginners instruments, CNC routed etc with a BIN of £50, no-one touches them. Go figure.

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