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oh and here's why the box was large and heavy, and tripped the threshold for paying import duty ...

Nice.

So hot.

Except for that guard/tort (urgz)

I love 90s red MIJ tort and will fight anyone who disagrees

Sexy muthahucker!

Everyone’s gonna hate me because it cleaned up too well

MatthewK wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 6:16 am oh and here's why the box was large and heavy, and tripped the threshold for paying import duty ...

beautiful!

MatthewK wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 12:14 pm Everyone’s gonna hate me because it cleaned up too well

By coincidence I'm pretty sure it was 95% beer and sweat, as soon as I rubbed at it it came right off. Alfoil and water trick:


New set of 12s:

Furniture oil for the fretboard:

and now, undank


Still has a few sticker shadows

but I just can't quite make out what the original said, maybe something in Japanese.

Wow, don't show it to a Japanese person, those are some ancient curse words.

Congrats on both guitars, both are eye candy.

Looks good, clean enough to play without fear of infection, faded enough to retain some personality.

MIJ trinity complete, levelling up.

those saddle notches are downright cavernous on the non-wound strings. to they stay in tune?

Yeah. It's really solid actually, although I should say I have a set of 12s on it so that probably helps. The neck is so slender after the other things I've played, it feels like a toy. The pickups really are crap. I have a set from Ken Rose which I will wire in when I get through my giant to-do list. I've kinda-sorta quit my job, effective end of year, so I should have more time over Jan/Feb before hopefully taking up something new.

taking up a new job or another guitar?

Well the job is uncertain …

… but there’s always another guitar.

oh lawd that's gorgeous.

Despite a year of stupid excess, I am really looking forward to that as the last of the spree.

IT’S HEEEEEEERE

Although more like shell peach than pink. Better pics when it’s daylight here.

It looks super sweet!