Blake's 12-string solidbody electric Frankenstein

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Here's an email we received from Blake:

This guitar was created in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The bolt on neck came from a 70s Epiphone acoustic 12 with broken bracing and poor tone. The body originated as an unidentified 60s Japanese Jazzmaster style guitar that was rescued from a dumpster. In order to combine these instruments, the neck pocket was slightly enlarged, the bridge and tailpiece were modified and relocated for proper intonation, and I designed and fashioned a pickguard from a 12" vinyl record. There are no volume or tone controls to weaken the signal output, just a Lace Alumitone wired straight to the output jack. Two barely playable guitars have been combined to form one highly playable electric 12 string. A recording of it can be heard on my bandcamp page: https://secretgeometry.bandcamp.com/

Rock on!
Blake Mandrayk

Nice job, Blake. It looks very cool and sounds great too.

Keep those readers guitars pictures coming in, folks!

G L Wilson

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Lace Cybercaster

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You know this wooden floor, it's behind every guitar picture you can find on the Vintage Guitar eBay shop - and I regularly choose the best ones to show them here...

But do you know the Lace cybercaster laying on it? Well actually if you ever saw it once, you couldn't forget its highly recognizable shape and natural rosewood finish. The gear is very syncretist, combining the big bridge plate of the telecaster, the jack input of the strat and the double humbucker configuration of the Les Paul...

I could say more but there is a good review here that I would just paraphrase!

bertram

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