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Olds Hubcap Rat Rod

Posted by Uncle John on February 11, 2012 at 4:02pm
GDG tuned. Runs like a top. Mostly highway miles. Battered $1.00 hubcap from the junk yard.
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  • Uncle John April 9, 2012 at 8:25pm

    Thanks Darren.  Had a problem with string pressure denting in the saddle area.  Bolstered it  underneath and back in business.  

  • darren brown April 9, 2012 at 8:21pm

    ever nice i like that .

  • Gaffacan February 14, 2012 at 8:52pm

    I really like, good job.

  • Uncle John February 13, 2012 at 6:48pm

    Thanks Bruce!   Got it tweaked.  Good player.  Fair to good acoustic and dandy plugged.

  • Bluesheart February 13, 2012 at 5:54pm

    Awesome rod!! And the lyrics just pour from you too? NIce

  • Uncle John February 12, 2012 at 1:00pm

    Well, Tom Bingham gave me the idea for this song.  Will try to record and post it after the git is tweaked.

    Junkyard Angel by Uncle John
     
     
    I was seventeen when I bought that Oldsmobile.
    Bought it at a junk yard, ohh what a deal.
    It had a big V-8,  A big V8 – made those tires squeal.
     
    I had a part time job and it was all I could afford.
    Drove it like a fool and always had it floored.
    It was my junk yard Olds, my junk yard Olds, oh good Lord!
     
    Second week I had it, I blew out a rear tire.
    I met a junk yard girl and my heart just caught on fire.
    She was a junk yard angel, a junk yard angel, she was so fine.
     
    I was in high school and she was a college girl
    I didn’t have a chance but I gave it a whirl.
    She was a junk yard angel, a junk yard angel, I wanted her.
     
    She looked out of place workin’ the counter at the junk yard.
    But her daddy owned the place and she needed a summer job.
    She was a junk yard angel, a junk yard angel, she was so fine.
     
    She shot me down fast, I never had a chance.
    I was too young and too poor for a shot at that romance.
    She was a junkyard angel, a junk yard angel, so fine
    A junk yard angel, I wish she was mine.  I wish she was mine.
  • Ron "Oily" Sprague February 12, 2012 at 8:43am
    Tweak, man, tweak! We wanna hear your new song, "When The Wheels Come Off"
  • Uncle John February 12, 2012 at 8:37am

    Thanks, Andy.  You guys are motivating me to go out to the COLD shop and do some tweaking. 

  • ANDOMANDO,,also known as ANDY February 12, 2012 at 5:18am

    Super Hubber..

  • Uncle John February 11, 2012 at 10:17pm

    Thanks guys.  Stickers from O'Reilly's Auto Parts.  Car pin-striping for fret markers.  Plays okay.  Will play well when I lower the biscuit under the wrench saddle.  

    Okay, the fretting.  I like to play boogie stuff on the middle string.   So besides open and hitting the middle string at the second - the boogie note-  of course I use a finger bar at the 5th or 7th quite a lot and the middle string boogie note 2 frets below those.....   So, by skipping the 6th and 8th frets, this makes it easier to play that shuffle or boogie style.   I almost never seem to miss those frets.  If in doubt about what I mean, my video Mercury Blues (and some others) might demonstrate.

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