The Return of the Son of Oops, I Did It Again, Again, Again, Etc., and So Forth, Ad infinitum....

Joe Bfstplk

Joe Bfstplk

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Musician's Friend "Stupid Deal of the Day" sometime last week. For $79, how could I pass it up? Have been thinking of taking spare guitar parts and getting a piece of wood and building one for a number of years, but I'd probably spend more than $79 on a piece of hardwood to build it from, these days....
 
That is a very cool looking piece of wood with strings 🤘

Sometimes I question myself why play an 8 string, if I only use 3 strings? Like, why all the wood and weight, if its not needed anyway.

Cheers

Edit: or are you referring to the piece of wood on the sofa?
 
Dave Merrill said:
How's it sound and play?
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Plays good. Just arrived today, so tuning, putting "Guitar Grease" and "Big Bends Nut Sauce" in places where it helps things move smoothly, doing the set-up. Had to adjust the saddle heights a little to get them more or less even. It's a top-loader style bridge, but also has the holes in the baseplate to put in the string-thru like a hardtail Strat or a Tele. That may happen at some future time. First order of biz is to get longer screws for the plates the legs screw into. They used pickguard screws. Needs to be 3/4" or 1" long screws for that, as there's leverage there. Probably going to stuff the extra Wilde/Lawrence L45S pickup in it, since I have it lying around. Will likely shield the inside of the pickup/control compartment with copper foil when I do. Ordered some 10-46 Broadways from Stringjoy for it, since it's only 22" scale, and we'll see how it goes. Maybe it'll get 11s next time. Dunno. This is a completely new instrument for me. Starting to learn to play "Breathe" by Pink Floyd. Em tuning (same for "One of These Days", apparently)....

Patzag said:
Love the numbered stickers/fret markers!
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It's a plate that's screwed onto the wood, with the fret markers molded in and the tops chromed for readability. Amazon shows the same one for $144.99, or in midnight blue for $159.99, so $79.99 was a no-brainer....

Axelman8 said:
That is a very cool looking piece of wood with strings 🤘

Sometimes I question myself why play an 8 string, if I only use 3 strings? Like, why all the wood and weight, if its not needed anyway.

Cheers

Edit: or are you referring to the piece of wood on the sofa?
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The one on my office chair is the newby.

sprint said:
Cool! What's goin on with that tele in the background?
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The one on the green chair is the Tele body I got a while back, in the middle of the finishing process. Just got the 1000 grit and sanding block to smooth out the finish before wiping on a few more coats of Tru-Oil. Then it'll sit for a bit, while I ream out the tuning peg holes on the neck for the Steinberger 40:1 tuning machines that it's getting....
 
slimefuzz said:
got one a few years ago and put JB JR replacement pickup. great improvement.

enjoy
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Nice! The spare L45S is likely going to make an appearance somewhere down the road. The body's routed for a full-size humbucker, but the plate that has the controls and pickup is set up for a Strat-ish single coil. Anything that's decent-sounding and hum cancelling will do the job, I suspect. Plenty of options for gaining it up in the Fractal realm, so a clean hum-cancelling single can work nicely, and I don't have to spend any more $ on anything, since it is coming out of the spare parts inventory.... :)
 
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