Here's a picture of my 2 Gibson Juniors. The guitar on the right is a 1959 Les Paul Jr. I found this guitar in a flea market in 1976 for 50$, being sold by an elderly gentleman on behalf of the son he'd originally purchased it for (it had been a Christmas present in 1959). He even threw in the amplifier he'd gotten with it - a little Gibson GA-5. This guitar has a nice, fat neck, the only thing non-original is the bridge (in the mid 70's, many of the original non-compensated bridges were replaced).
The guitar on the left is a 1964 SG Jr., purchased at the Dallas Guitar Show in 1995. I paid 10 times for it what I paid for the other, and still feel I got a good price. It had been refretted and had some neck repair done, a nice wide, thin neck. Very playable.
Both guitars get great tone from those wonderful P-90 pickups.
These guitars are a bit less useful than the preceding 2 - but are still cool, and cost much less. The guitar on the right is a 1967 Supro electric 12-string. I bought it in 1979 for 15$ - the neck was seriously warped for the 1st 2 frets. I built a new maple neck, using the original fretboard and trussrod, and the original peghead design. The pickguard, bridge pickup and electronics are also replacements.
The other guitar is the Montgomery Wards Airline version of the Supro Pocket Bass, from about 1963. With a 24-3/4" scale, the bass sound is a bit lacking, but it sounds cool through a DOD Grunge distortion pedal.
Here's a picture of my workbench, which is most of my 'shop'. I have a table just across the garage from the workbench with a drillpress and a small jointer. On the workbench can be seen the archtop guitar I'm working on as of last fall, before I glued the body together. You can also see my stash of English Sycamore leaning next to the bandsaw, with a nice piece of Spanish Cedar on top.
Just to show I HAVE managed to build a working instrument, this is a picture of my second acoustic, from 1981. A great sounding 12-string (somehow I did something right), it is still being played 15 years later. And yes, I know the neck is not quite square to the body - it worked anyway.<
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Dr. Fuzz - 28 January 1996
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