Gawd, Bill, that is so how portions of my house used to look @ the late 1980s-late 1990s, @ which time I started thinning the (geetars and geetar amps) herd by the hundreds.
Question re: Firebird in photo (above): Did that start out as an original (early 60s issue) Firebird I that was, @ some point later, "customized" into the Firebird I ~ Telecaster as I'm seeing it in the photo - i.e., the addition of the Tele bridge plate assembly, including string saddles and lead PUP, and replacement of the original neck with a "lefty" Tele neck - original or hand-crafted?
Clever concept, though one does hope that it was born of opportunity to salvage an otherwise damaged original Firebird I, one of the hundreds that suffered a broken head-neck joint (yeah, the fabled weak spot of the original series, reverse-body Firebird model), and not an intact Firebird I that was purposely mutilated in order to create this Fender-Gibson hybrid.
In any event it's the only example of a Fenderized Firebird of any kind I've ever seen. What the heck kind'a tonal characteristics does it possess? Do you have sound clips of it you could post here?
Thanks for the collection compliment Mystic, that was very kind of you.
The so called reverse FB, is one of 3 guitars of that configuration that was hand made by my long ago customer/friend(RIP) who was a luthier at one of the 5 music stores in my area, that I picked up & repaired their musical equipment for.
That R-FB was built for one of the post crash replacement guitarist in Lynyrd Skynyrd, which needed money and offered to sell it to me around 5 yr`s. ago.
I have never heard it played through any amplifier, so I can`t provide you with a "tone impression"..
And since I`m unable to physically play guitar because of being partially paralyzed(left side), since 11/19/81, and can`t use my left arm, much less hand, I`ll have to wait until one of my player friends drops by and desires to plug in the R-FB to hear what it sounds like.
The Tele is factory stock, except for a refinish.
The bridge PU`s chrome cover is in it`s original case`s compartment.
All the vintage guitars/tubes in my collection were offered to me for purchase, well below their, at the time, market value by their owners, since I readily had the funds, and the owners didn`t have to deal with the risks of shipping, or parts swapping games that some less than honest buyers would try, and they all knew that once the gear was sold to me, that there would be no flipping by me & the item became a permanent collection piece, and even not sold back to them, no matter how many $ 100`s they might wish to throw down on the table above what they sold it to me for.
Plus, the prior owners can drop by for a visit, and play their "baby", if they wish..
...that's a whole new world. About maybe an 1/8 to the way of getting to that planet of sound.
