Feel the pain of beaten RR 280....

[speed monkey]

Who was it that said something about "sad sad monkey beaters"??? This poor monkey has been worked over.... [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

This is the twin to the recent RR Doorstop on evilbay....

Under the Mountain

Steve E

[Jim Shine]

Re: Feel the pain of beaten RR 280....

It wouldn't take a whole lot to rehab a guitar like that. Its far from a door stop.

[ApeDosMil]

Re: Feel the pain of beaten RR 280....

guitar looks fine to me.

i prefer playing it then worrying about dents/cracks........

[RacerX]

Re: Feel the pain of beaten RR 280....

My SD Rhoads has similar chips, although not that bad.

[model1]

Re: Feel the pain of beaten RR 280....

that´s just fine (for me at least)
it gives her a certain kind of carisma [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
i rather play a well played/used old guitar with a nice character than one shiny untouched one off the rack [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]
if you want to see what real chips and dings are go visit the repair-site at sully-guitars
this abused firebird really brings tears to my eyes

[VitaminG]

Re: Feel the pain of beaten RR 280....

meh, I'd still hit it.

I guess you haven't seen a Rhoads with a wing snapped off yet... [img]graemlins/puke.gif[/img]

[brett8388]

Re: Feel the pain of beaten RR 280....

Easy cracking on my piece 'o shit Firebird. Sul-LEE (intentional misspelling) has assured me that it will be minty fresh any day now.

Brett

[eaeolian]

Re: Feel the pain of beaten RR 280....

Matt Crooks' SD Rhoads is in much worse shape than that - his looks like it's been dragged behind a truck - yet it's an awesome guitar.

Of course, I'm responsible for a fair amount of that damage - our stage show is rather, ahem, active. You should see my main stage guitar - a Zion Turbo - from the same time period. It's even worse. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

If it's a player, and it still sounds and plays good, who cares? People didn't buy these originally to collect them...

Mike

[86mod5]

Re: Feel the pain of beaten RR 280....

That guitar definitely has a cool vibe to it.

[JimmyApollo]

Re: Feel the pain of beaten RR 280....

It's a 20-year-old guitar with some dings on the points - it's bound to happen.

[RR05xx]

Re: Feel the pain of beaten RR 280....

Mine has the points chewed a little, it is a right of passage for these guitars (especially if played in cheesy placed in the 80s when you are a teenage [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] )

[fuel0707]

Re: Feel the pain of beaten RR 280....

Like the other responders, it doesn't look terribly trashed to me, either. I'm rather surprised by how nice the headstock and its face seem to be. From the title of this thread, I thought it would be heavily scratched up and chipped.

Your guitar looks to be an excellent candidate for a little extra TLC to get it back into really good shape.

[diablomozart]

Re: Feel the pain of beaten RR 280....

i see absolutely nothing wrong with it...looks loved, which means it probably plays great...d.m.

[Jim Shine]

Re: Feel the pain of beaten RR 280....

A little TLC goes a long way!





Rebuilt the tips, leveled the surface and refinished to a nice light-medium blue metallic with black bevels. Too bad I sold it (I hope you dig it Tim).

[L]

Re: Feel the pain of beaten RR 280....

i have been working on #280 for a long time...I give up!

EDIT: P.S. #280...lick my balls!

EDIT EDIT: P.S. #280 EAT A DICK!