My youngest has a Squier and it took a tumble. It knocked off the fretboard and cracked the upper horn, parallel to the pickguard.
I worked some Titebond II into the crack and trussed it up with parachute cord.
Now, my youngest is really rough on sruff, so this won't be a pristine repair, but it will be well set up and functional, but yet, we wanted to kinda personalize it.
The idea we came up with was to pay homage to both EVH and the paint job i put on my 1959 Silvertone in 1980.
I believe i had the Asian characters on my guitar - in 1980 - before anyone else did. Back around 1978 or 1979, i saw a Japanese metal band in an old Hit Parader magazine (called Bow Wow and later Vow Wow) that was opening for Kiss and Aerosmith. The guitar player had Asian writing all over his guitar and i thought it was kinda mysterious and cool, so i adopted it along with "tail stripes" from my 1969 Dodge Charger.
I copied some cool looking characters, from a local Chinese restaurant menu, and still, to this day, i have no idea what any of them actually mean. This was just something meant to stand out in a crowd and i couldn't afford anything commercially done, so i did it myself.
George Lynch wouldn't come out with his Kamikaze until 1984, which was around the same time Warren Demartini came out with his crossed swords guitar, so this was something people up in the Central Valley had never, ever seen.
So, i taped it off in about 10 minutes and scuffed the surface with gray scotch brite...
Then fogged on a little gold paint...
I worked some Titebond II into the crack and trussed it up with parachute cord.
Now, my youngest is really rough on sruff, so this won't be a pristine repair, but it will be well set up and functional, but yet, we wanted to kinda personalize it.
The idea we came up with was to pay homage to both EVH and the paint job i put on my 1959 Silvertone in 1980.
I believe i had the Asian characters on my guitar - in 1980 - before anyone else did. Back around 1978 or 1979, i saw a Japanese metal band in an old Hit Parader magazine (called Bow Wow and later Vow Wow) that was opening for Kiss and Aerosmith. The guitar player had Asian writing all over his guitar and i thought it was kinda mysterious and cool, so i adopted it along with "tail stripes" from my 1969 Dodge Charger.
I copied some cool looking characters, from a local Chinese restaurant menu, and still, to this day, i have no idea what any of them actually mean. This was just something meant to stand out in a crowd and i couldn't afford anything commercially done, so i did it myself.
George Lynch wouldn't come out with his Kamikaze until 1984, which was around the same time Warren Demartini came out with his crossed swords guitar, so this was something people up in the Central Valley had never, ever seen.
So, i taped it off in about 10 minutes and scuffed the surface with gray scotch brite...
Then fogged on a little gold paint...
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