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AGP #282 - 49 Vanguard''

AGP #282 - “49 Vanguard”
(3 String Hub Cap Guitar)
Scale : 571mm / 22½ inches
Strings : .048NW / .034NW / .024NW /
Tuning: G / D / g /
Picked up the very rusty and dilapidated Hub Cap for a couple of bucks at a Country Junk Shop, wasn’t a bad buy as it came with readymade Sound Holes and still had a couple of flecks of Chrome left on it :-D, the Cap is from a 1949 Vanguard, built by the Standard Motor Company, Coventry England.
The neck is recycled pieces of scrap hardwood, that were coated with Iron Oxide (Vinegar Steel Wool Concoction), the bottom is 3mm Pine Ply washed with a diluted black acrylic paint mix, all the wood was then sanded, given one coat of clear acrylic sealer and then dulled with a light sand paper, a previously used 4k 4 pole Bass Pickup is hardwired to the Jack.
This “Relic Git” built by a “Relic Git”, looks “Bad and Mean and Mighty Unclean”, and sounds the same!!, a small scale build that makes a big noise, “I Love It”, but I’m not sure about the neighbours ??????????????

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Comment by AGP # on June 21, 2017 at 11:49am: "Thanks Gary & Dave"

Comment by Dave Lynas on June 21, 2017 at 11:31am: The gong one is super too!

Comment by Dave Lynas on June 21, 2017 at 11:30am: Love the rusties AGP. Tops! Your headstock is superb.

Comment by Gary W aka Rev. Bluejeans on June 21, 2017 at 10:25am: Sweet looking build, AGP! Very well done!

Comment by AGP # on June 20, 2017 at 10:31am: "Thanks UJ", I don't think it would ever clean up any more than what it is now ;-)

Comment by Jeff 'Bones' Reilly on June 20, 2017 at 10:24am: ;)

Comment by AGP # on June 20, 2017 at 10:17am: "Thanks Jeff", I think they bought their own Ear Plugs a few years back :-)

Comment by AGP # on June 20, 2017 at 10:14am: No Pick, it's a Hub Cap, this is the Gong I nicked from the Japanese Temple :-D

Comment by Jeff 'Bones' Reilly on June 20, 2017 at 8:49am: Give them some ear plugs an crank that mother up I'd love to hear its sound

Comment by Uncle John on June 20, 2017 at 1:32am: Nice. You cleaned it up just the right amount.

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