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$10 POS - Mar 19 2018

AGP #313 - $10 POS
Every now and then you get one of those Build/Restorations that no what you do nothing goes right and you can’t get any semblance of what you’re trying to achieve.
Quite happy with the look of this Renovation, but after trying many many different types of string forms (Nylon & Steel) combinations and gauges (3 string-4 String-6 String) nothing seemed to sound anything decent, so after wasting too many frustrating hours on this $10 POS (Piece Of Shit), the decision was made to strip it of its status of AGP #313 build, and decommission the Mongrel of a thing.
It’s a miracle that it’s still in one piece and survived, I did resist the urge to place it on the floor and jump on it, and also to use it for Boomerang practice, at the moment it has been stripped of all its possessions and sentenced to spend time in a remote corner of one of my sheds until further notice.
If nothing else was learned!, it has confirmed my dislike of Piezo Type Pickups and Classical Style Headstocks.
“RANT OVER”

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Comment by AGP # on March 23, 2018 at 7:37pm: The middle pic is not a Reso Cover as such 'UJ", it's an upturned timber plate I placed on there in another unsuccessful experiment, after the Reso Cone was removed :-)

Comment by Uncle John on March 23, 2018 at 1:39am: Looks great. Could the reso cover be robbing your sound?

Comment by Korrigan on March 21, 2018 at 11:19am: Hmmm... let's combine those ideas and add a ceiling fan... :D

Comment by AGP # on March 21, 2018 at 10:51am: Unfortunately Dave, problems like bowing, twisting, splitting is part of what we do!, I don't have many failures but this one that tested my "patience", something I've never had a lot of :-D

Comment by AGP # on March 21, 2018 at 10:46am: Another Great Idea Korrigan, found this one just this morning on a Facebook Friends page :-D

Comment by AGP # on March 21, 2018 at 10:43am: Yes! James O I agree, it did look good, and definitely not worth spending too much money on, but it's life isn't over yet! something will happen to down the track :-D

Comment by Dave Lynas on March 20, 2018 at 3:04pm: I have such material in my lake shed. Necks that start bowing,twisting,splitting really gets me!

Comment by Korrigan on March 20, 2018 at 2:45pm: Throw some strings back on it and turn it into a doorbell...

:D

Comment by James O Lunsford on March 20, 2018 at 2:11pm: Well it did look good sorry it didn't work out would have made a nice Classical Guitar but a piece of tone wood like cedar would be expensive maybe not worth the cost

Comment by AGP # on March 20, 2018 at 9:53am: Stop putting ideas into my head Erasmo, I resisted the urge to stomp on it, or send it into orbit, and now you have aroused my Pyromaniac Tendencies :-D