jnew wrote:Truly an old beater POS (but we're married)
Ain't no such thing. Good wood with a decent neck pocket is always top notch, no matter how "ugly" some may think it is. All in the eye of the beholder, and if you think it adds something to your playing, it don't matter zip what it looks like to others.
Whereas, if you were playing a shiny guitar and you weren't "feeling it", us miserable guitarists in the audience would be dissin' you, as opposed to your guitar.
I think it looks great as is.
Did a gig a couple of years back, with the bunch of odd kids supporting. Most people in the room were pretty down on them because they were obvious beginners, and the guitarist/singer was obviously not very well off. He bought this real beater of a pawn shop guitar, several different coats of various colour paint worn through, and all beat up to heck. It looked to me like some kind of bastardized 70's/80's Epiphone type thing. It was truly ugly, but it sounded great, and when I asked to look at it afterwards, was solid and nicely put together, with some nice wood on the neck and set-up well. I absolutely LOVED it because of it's uglyness, and that I couldn't really tell quite what it was. He didn't know what it was as it turned out, it was just all he could afford, but he loved it. He said the rest of the band were trying to talk him into painting it and prettying it up, I had to urge him not to, since he loved it as it was.
As a band they totally had their own thing going (although he clearly had the majority of the talent, the rest of the band had the "supportive parents". They weren't showy, or flashy, and didn't try to do anything that was beyond them, but they had a real nice vibe, and was something really different from the usual whiny student crap you get around here. Oxford can be a real harsh place if you don't fit in. We certainly don't.