Posted by Uncle John on September 28, 2014 at 5:03pm
This Kay guitar (center) came to me yesterday from the land fill (county dump) . I have 3 good playing land fill guitars. My friend Terry, has brought me two of them. He says there is a good old boy working out there who sets things aside in hopes somebody might have use for them. Oh, yes!The saddle and bridge were broken. The strings were set up to be strung though the saddle - and part of that was broken. I made the crude tailpiece out of scrap metal and CBG style, used a bolt saddle.The action is perfect for slide. In standard tuning, it rates a C-. In open G or open E, it rates at least a B for playability and sound. It has a lot of bass.I may later electrify it and may put on a store bought tail piece.
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Go slide, Jabes. Thanks, Pick. I feel kind of bad for whoever took that git to the dump. I wonder if this poor git got played and loved or just neglected. Kind of looks like it did not get played much and then was in an accident.
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land fill guits good.,.,
Uncle John's Guitar Rescue Service :-) Bringing them back to life one git at a time!
:-o
naw .. once folks get a swampy .. some toss their others out .
not my fault ;-)
it was probably my fault UJ ;-)
Go slide, Jabes. Thanks, Pick. I feel kind of bad for whoever took that git to the dump. I wonder if this poor git got played and loved or just neglected. Kind of looks like it did not get played much and then was in an accident.
nice save !!!!!!
i picked an Encore last week from our recycle ,the belly is blown so the action is way high, not sure if i know how to fix it. but.....