Author Topic: James Hetfield Guitar (Read 215 times)

bracheen · « **Reply #15 on:** April 17, 2009, 06:31:47 AM »

Peter, I guess if antique can be a verb why not relic?

jacko · « **Reply #16 on:** April 17, 2009, 06:36:09 AM »

Is antique a verb in the USA? I don't think it is over here. Weathering or distressing perhaps ;-)

re the guy buying >1 VH strat, perhaps he's doing it as a public service - get the damn things off the street ;-)

Graeme

adriaan · « **Reply #17 on:** April 17, 2009, 08:38:45 AM »

Re the guy who owns 4, he wrote:

I own four of these guitars. Each one came set up very poorly out of the box. As a player of mostly smooth jazz, I require a guitar that can stand up under pressure. My first took a fall from the stand during a gig and the headstock was ruined. I am on my fourth and I hope it does not happen again. If you're going to get this guitar, DO NOT PLAY IT! It is not a very good players guitar.

One or two clues in there as to whether he was posting on the right page.

lbpesq · « **Reply #18 on:** April 17, 2009, 10:00:04 AM »

This is my favorite pic. I just can't believe anyone would actually shell out $25K for some bare wires hanging out of a hole where a pickup used to be. And don't you just love the strap pins? Maybe you can hook a couple of carabiners to a strap - the ultimate straplocks! I actually saw one of these in person. It's the opposite of what we often hear around here about Alembics. The EVH even looks WORSE in person!

Bill, tgo

davr35 · « **Reply #19 on:** April 17, 2009, 10:15:43 AM »

You are right Bill, I saw one in person also and it looked like it would break if you touched it.

Dave

cozmik_cowboy · « **Reply #20 on:** April 17, 2009, 04:27:39 PM »

I dunno, Dave, that might be an improvement - the pic looks like it done went & broke already!

Peter

pocket8 · « **Reply #21 on:** April 18, 2009, 07:50:29 PM »

Even though I think the first three Van Halen albums should first be put in the national archive, and then should be shot into deep space on a gold record attached to its own special satellite shaped like a Jack Daniel's bottle for the benefit of the rest of the universe, I think the jacked-up quarter (assuming two bits counts as evidence of debt) may make each of these things meticulosly illegal:

United States Code
TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 17 - COINS AND CURRENCY
333. Mutilation of national bank obligations

Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

Would this make these goofy things worth $25K just for their inherently forbidden constitution? Dunno, but unless this thing is played off to the feds as a really snazzy quarter that is still viable legal tender (representing about a 100,00 fold loss on your investment), you're just asking to send the people at the Fender shop to the clink.

Again, I don't know, but other than excelling in the prison wood shop, I don't think they have the necessary survival skills!

But on a related VH collectible note, I have distressed sweat socks that are exact replicas of the ones that Alex Van Halen wore on the WACF tour! This year's run is limited to 52 pairs of these stinky beauties given the time required for the patented aging process!

A must-have for any serious Roth-era Van Halen fan!

Serious inquiries only.