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Not sure if anyone hear used to go to any bike rallies but I was in the band Rubicon between 2015 and 2017, they used to play a few bike rallies, NABD, Farmyard etc, you may have seen us.

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gazzatriumph

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Scrappy

Scrappy

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The Eddie guitar has just arrived. Overall I'm satisfied, as I primarily wanted it as a decoration. However I'm glad I didn't pay any more than £300, as it is clearly a DIY project and far from perfect. It's not bad, but wouldn't pass quality control of even most budget brand instrument makers. Like I said in a previous post I was buying it as a decorative wall hanger, so as that I'm happy. @MartytheMartian I don't think you would have been satisfied if you had brought it as a playing guitar, although having said that I've not tried plugging it into an amp.

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MartytheMartian

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Hi @Scrappy Sorry to hear that it ain't as good as it looks. What are the main problems with it? Is it the finish or the general assembly? The guy definitely must have spent a lot of money on these guitars in that hardware and cases alone so it's a pity if he didn't put them together very well. All in apart from the cost of the kit itself to build the guitar (At a guess it's the Coban kit which is 210 bucks to buy), pickups from Seymour Duncan are about £200 plus, pickup surrounds and tuners look like Guyker which is about forty or fifty quid and a hard case will set you back a minimum of sixty bucks so you are probably talking at least five hundred quid in parts and a case before you go about covering the guitar in fabric and resin and the flat back and polish.

As you say, you were thinking of it as a 'display' piece and it certainly looks the part but, if you only want it for display and the Seymour Duncans etc. are genuine (They will be stamped with the Seymour Duncan logo etc. on the back) I'd take 'em off and put them on another guitar because they will be some seriously nice pickups. Seymour Duncan don't do poor quality.

It's a pity when you get someone ploughing money into a 'project' but they don't have the skills to actually really produce a nice result and I'm sorry to hear that this one ain't the best it could be. I was interested in the Les Paul he has but I've decided instead to upgrade the guitar in the picture below, an old Raven West Les Paul style guitar that is one of my favourite instruments but the stock pickups aren't quite beefy enough s they have to go. Ain't she a beauty? That maple top really is that 'quilted' and the pic doesn't do the abalone inlay on the neck or around the body justice. Thing is damn gorgeous.
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Scrappy

Scrappy

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MartytheMartian said:
Hi @Scrappy Sorry to hear that it ain't as good as it looks. What are the main problems with it? Is it the finish or the general assembly? The guy definitely must have spent a lot of money on these guitars in that hardware and cases alone so it's a pity if he didn't put them together very well. All in apart from the cost of the kit itself to build the guitar (At a guess it's the Coban kit which is 210 bucks to buy), pickups from Seymour Duncan are about £200 plus, pickup surrounds and tuners look like Guyker which is about forty or fifty quid and a hard case will set you back a minimum of sixty bucks so you are probably talking at least five hundred quid in parts and a case before you go about covering the guitar in fabric and resin and the flat back and polish.

As you say, you were thinking of it as a 'display' piece and it certainly looks the part but, if you only want it for display and the Seymour Duncans etc. are genuine (They will be stamped with the Seymour Duncan logo etc. on the back) I'd take 'em off and put them on another guitar because they will be some seriously nice pickups. Seymour Duncan don't do poor quality.

It's a pity when you get someone ploughing money into a 'project' but they don't have the skills to actually really produce a nice result and I'm sorry to hear that this one ain't the best it could be. I was interested in the Les Paul he has but I've decided instead to upgrade the guitar in the picture below, an old Raven West Les Paul style guitar that is one of my favourite instruments but the stock pickups aren't quite beefy enough s they have to go. Ain't she a beauty? That maple top really is that 'quilted' and the pic doesn't do the abalone inlay on the neck or around the body justice. Thing is damn gorgeous.
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It's not bad @MartytheMartian just my OCD has picked up on a few things, like where the neck joins the body isn't quite flush and there is some over spill of adhesive, if you run your finger up the back of the neck there are a couple of uneven areas. Acoustically it sounds good, I've still not plugged it in to an amp. Overall I'm happy with it, and glad I brought it, but also thankful I didn't pay more than I did. I think that I had over anticipated and expected it to be perfect, imagining that I was getting an incredible bargain being a flawless hand made custom guitar with brilliant artwork 😆. It does look good, but on close inspection it has a couple of finishing flaws.
 
MartytheMartian

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Ah so it's not too bad then @Scrappy ? I have to say that 'finishing flaws' are rather common in even top brands. I had a USA made Fender American Standard strat twenty years ago that was far from cheap and, once the glow of having got myself another new guitar wore off, and I started to look at it more closely I noticed a blemish in the paint here, a slight 'indent' in the body there, a little rough spot on the neck, a ripple in the overall paint finish of the body and more. The worst thing about that guitar though was that I hated playing it. Something about the sounds it made just set my teeth on edge and I must have played the thing for no more than a few hours in all the time I had it before selling it on. Gibson and Gretsch also turned out some badly made/finished guitars over the years too.

I reckon that finishing is probably the hardest thing to get nice and well done on a guitar unless you have access to a good paint booth and industrial quality equipment. Of course the most important thing about a guitar is how it sounds and how it feels under yer paws.
 
Don the Don

Don the Don

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I fuggin Loath that song, Radio is on a one way trip if I ever hear it "what" a total waste of time that was and how much of that money got there? Geldof once said after what he knows now he would not have bothered, Feck I hate that song,.........that and Baker street hate that durge too
 
MartytheMartian

MartytheMartian

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I remember seeing the interview with Geldof @Don the Don and he was saying that he realised that Band Aid/Live Aid had created a dependency culture in Ethiopia, and pretty much every other third world shit hole, where people who weren't living in the drought hit areas and were doing fine would up sticks and wander into the wastelands and then sit by the road with their hands out to the great white saviours rather than having to toil in the fields for their living.

You know I don't believe I've ever seen a repeat of that interview and even Geldof seems to have chosen to forget it too since he's back in the spotlight again. I hate that fuckin' prick too, can't sing, can't write a decent feckin' song and, well he's just a fucking dickhead all round.
 
gazzatriumph

gazzatriumph

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MartytheMartian said:
I remember seeing the interview with Geldof @Don the Don and he was saying that he realised that Band Aid/Live Aid had created a dependency culture in Ethiopia, and pretty much every other third world shit hole, where people who weren't living in the drought hit areas and were doing fine would up sticks and wander into the wastelands and then sit by the road with their hands out to the great white saviours rather than having to toil in the fields for their living.

You know I don't believe I've ever seen a repeat of that interview and even Geldof seems to have chosen to forget it too since he's back in the spotlight again. I hate that fuckin' prick too, can't sing, can't write a decent feckin' song and, well he's just a fucking dickhead all round.
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I liked the Boomtown Rats but Geldoff did turn in to a knob.
 
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