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| ..would you do this to a guitar ? Is that a freakin' diaper? |
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Location: Flahdaw | Ooops....do I assume you didn't want me to "customize" this Viper I'm holding for you? |
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Location: UK | Surely didn't leave the factory like that - I'm guessing somebody using a hard pick strummed the hell out of it and wore holes in the top.
Puts me in mind of the 'car-bra' - Not a thing that caught on in the UK - we used to laugh when we saw them - always on a GI's car. |
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Location: SoCal | Sure. If it was a Taylor.... |
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Location: UK | I've seen a few guitars with big - and I mean BIG pick guards. Didn't Elvis have something like that on one of his guitars ? Martin make one just like it don't they ? Wouldn't that kill the tone ? surely it must. |
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Location: Flahdaw | The Gibson Hummingbird pg is big enough, but they make one with a pickguard below AND above the soundhole....huge. Aren't those supposed to be "tone monsters"? I don't see how with all that top vibration deadening. |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | I like it, it's kinda like a cyborg, praps Ovation should have done this for the 2000 Collector, like a guitar-meets-machine type design.
I would like to see more rivets. |
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Location: SW Washington | perhaps a beer bottle at high velocity made it through a hole in the chicken wire and the pick guard is to cover the damage and add structural support to the damaged area? |
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Location: Right now? | MWoody didn't do it!
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Thread already on For Sale page:
GC 12, OMG, IDDI!
maybe they were just bored... |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Once upon a time there was a pick-guard .. scratch-plate .. pick- stopper .. and ... |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | At least the soundboard shouldn't get damaged during shipping.
I had to laugh when I read this in the ad...
"Has a hairline crack approximately 2 inches long on face near the bridge, small piece chipped off of headstock, some wear & the knob feels a bit loose but aside from that it is in good condition. Sounds like a dream."
HEL-LO!!! |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | Yuck, I about threw up.
What a shame. |
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Location: East Greenville,PA | Wow... Thats so depressing. I wanna stab myself. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!?!?! Im looking for one of these everywhere... Shame... Makes my stomach Churn. |
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| My Tornado came with an over-sized, home-made pickguard screwed to it (think of the Batman symbol, or the big Gibby SG style). Removed it, but still haven't fixed the holes, or figured out how to, unless I find some larger-than-normal toothpicks, preferably spruce :( .
Not much of an issue on mine, but I could see it being one on any acoustic. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | It\'s Back! With a lot more photos and a more realistic price... |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | I think I'l bid $51 for it...
Nope, threw up again.
Wait, maybe the GC truss rod cover is worth the minimum bid?
HA HA HA HA |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | That's just a protector for shipping. It comes off. |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | Yeah to reveal the canyon cracks underneath it.
HA HA HA
I'd ALMOST be willing pay the $50 just for the neck to hang on the wall and trash the rest of it but hell, it's broken too. |
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Location: Michigan | I am actually kind of impressed they screwed the "pick guard" on. It seems like a reapair of that quality would have been stapled on. |
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Location: Right now? | That's just a protector for shipping. It comes off.
LOL! There ya go! Hey, couldn't someone buy this really cheap and then send her off for a new top? It won't be me ...
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | WOW! It actually sold for $307! |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | OOPS, sorry, I was looking at the auction number the guitar was previously listed under.
Still $50 |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Hey, even with the ugly and the damage, I just bet this still sounds fantastic...it would make a great cabin/campfire/boat/war games guitar...at least these sellers are being honest: they paid $207 for it a month ago and they are providing much better pictures of the guitar... |
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1618 - WHY?