This is not how you "restore" a guitar. ESP content.

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Saw this on Reverb, if he actually left it alone it would be easily worth his asking price.

This is not how you "restore" a guitar. Also routing the wood for a battery box is also something I always thought was foolish since they make a battery box that mounts right into the existing control cavity if you're that lazy. :doh:

Love the inlays as well.


https://reverb.com/item/17176396-esp-ho ... 988-silver

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I was gonna say at least the paint job looks good, but the close up of the side shows it's DIY. Why wouldn't you take a guitar like that to a professional to refinish it? I'd like to say he would be lucky to get $800, but some sucker will come along and buy it for $1k :(
 
I "restored" an old horizon about 12 years ago. I sold it soon after and always wondered where it ended up.












 
The ad says new frets but it looks to me like a completely different fretboard and You cant see the nut with the dewrag on it so Im guessing its a wreck of a refurb.
 
Even the pickup cavities look like they've been re-routed "skew". :no:
 
Pure tragedy. Why would you get rid of the neck binding? Even if it were cracked...replace that shit!
 
Cant believe it sold for 1K. It looks like he/they added a bulge of wood or filler t o allow the foreward humbucker route to intrude into the lower scallop. Tssk bad refin just make selling online harder for everyone.
 
Garbage project guitar restored to scam money from an unsuspecting buyer. No thanks, I'll pass. I feel sorry for the buyer who bought that guitar. I wonder if he knows what it looked like before or what kind of work was done to it.

Guitar George
 
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