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I actually like the looks of the guitar too!
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Wow Harley, what an axe  :thumb-up: , I suspect it plays quite nicely also  >:D
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That's pretty dang cool, I'll tell ya what

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Hey Harley, this is a 90's  Kevin Costner's signature "Dance with wolves" guitar... really rare ! :lol:
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Hey Gang,

   OK, here's the story on that guitar.
   In 1989, I met a kid who had that guitar and he never really learned how to play, and he saw my setup at the time, and offered to sell me the guitar, even though I didn't need it. I gave him $25 for it.
   Originally, it was just your basic white Strat copy. All the original hardware was on it, but the pickups were trashed. The neck and middle pickups were still in the guitar, but not working. The bridge pickup, was replaced with a DiMarzio Super Distortion humbucker, but it was a home made installation. Both the body and the pick guard looked like it had been cut out with a chisel to fit the humbucker in there. The pickup wasn't even mounted with the adjustment screws, it was just suspended with the jagged points of the pick guard holding the pickup in place against the coil windings  :crazy:

   I bought a Floyd Rose and some new DiMarzio pickups for it, ( Pro 151 PAF, and two DP- FS1's ), a couple of CTS Pots, and a new 5-way switch. Then I took it to a local Luthier who got the neck ready while I went to work on the body. I had him route the body for the FR first, then I took it home and filed the cutaways with a wood rasp to get the rough shape. I then sanded them down smooth and got a sheet of black fun fur from Pat Catan's, and glued that on where I wanted it. ( I also cut the monkey-grip handle in the body usind a small hole saw and hand cranked drill). Then I took it back to the Luthier, and had him paint the cutaways white with black tips. He did that and assembled the whole thing, gave it a complete line up and balance, and I bought a Lochness Green hard shell case for it. We had a good laugh over that guitar when it was done.

  It plays very fast and has a decent tone. The tuning machines are the original chrome Schallers that were on my 1980 STRAT, and the pick guard, was the original from my 1983 57' RI, Schaller Strap Locks completed the package. I've used that for a lot of gigs, but never for recording. I was never really satisfied with the tone for other than live gigs. Maybe I might try some new pickups in the future for it, but I haven't picked it up and played it in years. I liked the way it looked with the pink pickup covers, and I still have the pink covers for the single coils in a box somewhere.

   So there you have it. When I first completed the guitar, I used to refer to it as the "Beast." Then, I learned that d*ck Dale named his Strat by that name, so I had to change it to Sonofabeast.

   Harley 8)
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Great story, great name for the axe!

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Reminds me of when I installed a humbucker in my Jap Anson strat, I didn't have a chisel so I used a screwdriver and a hammer to make the cavity large enough  :facepalm:
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Hey Harley,how did you come up with the name Sonofabeast?
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Hey Harley,how did you come up with the name Sonofabeast?

  Hey MJMP,
   I called it the Beast for a few years, and it seemed to fit, with the fur and horns. It looks kind of beastly, don't you think? Anyway, after learning that d*ck Dale had named his guitar the Beast, I just figured since mine came later, and can sound every bit as aggressive, then it had to be "Son-Of-A-Beast."
  If you say if fast, it comes out Sonofabeast!

  (It's a lot more printable than "Son of a bitch!")

   Harley 8)
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Ah yes i see now  :lol:
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Hey harley,

Do you have an amp matching the guitar ?
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Hey Tomy.

  Why would I need a furry amp when I have Ozite covered ADA Split-Stacks?
  (Unless I covered everything in red shag fur, then I could get a gig with Murph and the Magic Tones at the Ramada Inn)

   Harley  :banana-guitar:
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Why would I need a furry amp when I have Ozite covered ADA Split-Stacks?
  (Unless I covered everything in red shag fur, then I could get a gig with Murph and the Magic Tones at the Ramada Inn)

   Harley  :banana-guitar:

I'll be here all week....Try the veal!

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 :lol: :lol: :lol: I knew someone was going to catch that one and follow through :thumb-up:

Harley 8)
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One gig in the books, another one on the calendar. We had our first gig yesterday to a packed house of partiers. It's 4th of July weekend here in the U.S., a celebration of our independence from jolly ol' England, and an excuse for a 3 day party. The venue is next to the river, people can arrive via the docks on the water or the highway outside the front door.

It is a very popular spot for bikers and other forms of quality society like musicians. Many musicians relish these gigs because the venue is almost always packed on weekends, there are only so many weekends in a summer so they're rare gigs, there's a huge main stage and a smaller back stage. They have the back stage band playing while they switch bands on the main stage so the music never stops. They are known for their fish tacos, but I think the  :beer: may have something to do with it too. Of course, because it's always packed....we get paid well.  :banana-upsidedown:

Here's a pic of me in the beard, I'm the one on the right, with the Minions goggles on my hat  :o 


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