Greenfuz wrote:fuuuuuuuuck me that is beautiful
non-white white falcons are the best
and that pickup jesus I bet it sounds so fuckin rad
what's the history behind this
Ok so it's one of those dodgy trade tang guitars from a chinese factory. Couple years ago I really wanted a hollow body bass VI and asked the chinese factory to make me one. I'm a sucker for surf green so I asked for it and they did it. Cost like 200 bucks shipped! They ended up sending me this normal scale guitar one and after bitching they sent me my real one for free. So effectively this was a free guitar. A free fake shit guitar so I've never really taken much care of it. The bass vi sold long ago as well.
I wanted to put two lipstick pickups and two filtertrons in it for some reason so thats what the big cutouts were for. I slipped and fell into the guitar though when I was making it
It's been sitting in a junk pile for a few years I always harvest the bits I need for other projects off it like the tuner. I had the dearmond pickup in my acoustic but I wanted to see if it would fit in the gretsch and it does and it's awesome.
The massive hole in it lets the sound resonate ridiculously, it sounds not great acoustic but with a magnetic pickup the shit is ridiculous, it sounds so mean and crappy and like evil blues or something it's pretty great actually, worked out well