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coolpool
August 3rd, 2012, 10:44 AM
I decided some time ago to teach myself some "light" guitar repair and luthiery. Since I have a son in college, and a son in Gr.11 at home, taking 6 weeks off to do a formal luthiery course is out of the question. I also live 6 hrs from the two people I want to learn from.
I mentioned this to friend of mine and he goes "Oh, I have the perfect project for you. A friend of mine has had this in the closet for twenty years or so and it needs some work."
Some internet research ,and it turns out to be a 1962 Hofner Club 50 with the model 512 single coils. This guitar has been, in the words of The Pogues, "Spat on, and shat on, and raped and abused".
The electronics are not stock, it has a mismatched set of non-original machineheads, a Bigsby (since lost) that was installed and then removed for the original tailpiece, the neck was held on solely by a combination of crusted white glue and a BIG wood screw, and it has a gigantic hole on the upper bout that has been scab patched with a piece of rosewood. When I have time, I'll post pics.
We plugged it in and I fully understand the concept of mojo now. This thing has it in spades! It just plays every sixties sound you can think of! I'm sooo tempted to offer to buy it from the owner and do more of a resto on it as
I highly doubt I'll ever see any money I invest into this guitar, but I'm treating it as the price I pay for going to school the hard way and my contribution to keeping a living bit of history alive. Wish me luck!:shock:
I mentioned this to friend of mine and he goes "Oh, I have the perfect project for you. A friend of mine has had this in the closet for twenty years or so and it needs some work."
Some internet research ,and it turns out to be a 1962 Hofner Club 50 with the model 512 single coils. This guitar has been, in the words of The Pogues, "Spat on, and shat on, and raped and abused".
The electronics are not stock, it has a mismatched set of non-original machineheads, a Bigsby (since lost) that was installed and then removed for the original tailpiece, the neck was held on solely by a combination of crusted white glue and a BIG wood screw, and it has a gigantic hole on the upper bout that has been scab patched with a piece of rosewood. When I have time, I'll post pics.
We plugged it in and I fully understand the concept of mojo now. This thing has it in spades! It just plays every sixties sound you can think of! I'm sooo tempted to offer to buy it from the owner and do more of a resto on it as
I highly doubt I'll ever see any money I invest into this guitar, but I'm treating it as the price I pay for going to school the hard way and my contribution to keeping a living bit of history alive. Wish me luck!:shock: