So I got me self a guitar that was really weird in me eye´s many years ago. Was about to buy a second hand stereounit, ended up with a guitar.
Painted white with a paintbrush and with some flowers on to it was a bit mad. Somewhere down the line the neck had been taken of and refitted but not as it was originally. No its fingerboard was now sett flat on top of its body.
Somehow I fixed it and it wasnt that bad at all. In fact a cheep rather nice guitar. It didnt take long before I knew it was a 40-50´s Harmony Master. Built to be a cheap but fair guitar.
In my ownership it didnt take to long before I fitted a pair of humbuckers that was in me scrapbox. Years goes by, and every now and then that guitar is play´d. Often with a new idea in mind. So one day it was sanded down, and did get a new metallic paint. spraycans made the job easy. Still I had the homemade wooden bridge, but one day - I thought.
Still it was a rather nice guitar to play, but not perfect in any sense. A new bridge might do the trick and make it an even better sounding guitar.
Finally e freind of mine show´d up with some kind of tun-o-matic bridge, and late the same evening it was fitted to the guitar. Tuning it properly took some time, then the result was amazing.
This cheep guitar was suddenly a real players guitar with a sound that was great. Must have been something like this that the great Les Paul when he tried out his first buildt electric guitar in the 40´s. Even if his first guitar containd a huge piece of railroad steel.
Just realised that in total it had cost me 35,oo pound. Next step might well be a Bigsby!! But then again it might be to expensive.
