Ever seen one of these?

ben_brown · Post by **ben_brown** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:31 pm

Check out this 79 MapleGlo with black trim that some idiot butchered. Sad....very sad...
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/msg/188493823.html

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:36 pm

That is a common bit of hackery. It might be reversible if there is not much additional routing under the guard.

ben_brown · Post by **ben_brown** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:42 pm

I have never seen a MG with BT

markbass99 · Post by **markbass99** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:44 pm

That pickguard sorta has a 4002 vibe,but-

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:45 pm

"Watery Growl"????

aceonbass · Post by **aceonbass** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:49 pm

I like it where, after all that work, it gets the perfect Paul McCartney sound with flat wound strings. I'm pretty sure it could have gotten that sound without all of the monkey business. It looks pretty easy to reverse this twisted process though...with about $500.00 worth of parts.

fran4001 · Post by **fran4001** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 2:08 pm

I remember BT in the 80s and 90s, but was it available in the late 70s? Somebody rescue that girl!

ben_brown · Post by **ben_brown** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 2:19 pm

Too many screw holes to worry about!
...and was that "Watery Fowl"?

bassduke49 · Post by **bassduke49** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:35 pm

Ben, here is a beauty that passed through my collection a couple of years ago. I sold it to Jeff Rath, and he sold it to another forumite, and he to another. I've kinda lost track of it now. It was a 2002, the last year of black trim. Great grain on this one. Mint, too.

ben_brown · Post by **ben_brown** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:19 pm

All black trim except for the bridge...I wonder why.

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:28 pm

Paul, that one still makes me drool. I was afraid to play it! I know Jeff sure didn't wanna drill a hole in it!

chefothefuture · Post by **chefothefuture** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:10 pm

The neck binding on that 79 is white.
Me thinks it'was a white one....

lowendbob · Post by **lowendbob** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:02 pm

Paul, Jeff sold that to me after I pretty much begged him to sell it. She was the nicest MG I have seen too date. I sold it to a non- forumite out in LA to fund a C64S.

ricosound · Post by **ricosound** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:12 am

It went to that nut job Bruce Bierman (http://www.brucebierman.com/)that claims to have colaborated in secret with Lennon. I tried to get ahold of it to get it back in the forum, but no dice. I really do want this one or one like it.

ricosound · Post by **ricosound** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:13 am

...lokk on the "about" tab and there is a picture of him playing it.