I picked it up this evening, its a bit battered! The action was totally out, and I noticed something between the body and the neck. When setting up my Fender P Bass that I use all the time, I addeded a small peice of paper, as a spacer between the neck and the body. I unscrewed the neck, they had used a playing card folded twice! So 4 times thick! My girlfriend and I had a good laugh guessing what card it would be, and sure enough it was the Joker!
The neck has other screw holes so is from another guitar entirely, so I'm guessing it would have had a more Les Paul style head.
I put it back together with no joker and pluged it into an amp, everything worked fine! and it seemed to have a really great tone.
It is now it bits, and nowhere does it have a single mark, number, or logo.
The chap who sold it to me said he was in a band in the late 70's (when he was at school) and he doesn't remember where it came from. I played a quick riff on one string, he said that was the first tune it had played in 20 years! Which is kind of cool!
If you are interested I'll put some pics up?Statistics: Posted by edbol — Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:50 pm
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