Thats right, coming December on Ebay. Guitars refurbed down to the neck and body. Hot rodded with the best sounding hardware and smoked stained look.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Smoking Mango "SMOKED GUITARS"
Hello, If you like my other blog Cody's Easy Meals that Don;t suck you will love what else I do with my smoker lol. So when I was booking bands Smoking Mango was the name that was given to me because I enjoyed smoking mango flavored cigars it stuck. So now days I havent booked any shows in a while but the name still has meaning.
So, it started when Kelly Robinson (the bass player of Deaf Angel) dropped a guitar off at my house for me to fix the wiring in his cheap SONATA Guitar. This was the ugliest paint job I have ever seen. He told me "while your at it you can sand it down if you want". Im thinking cool never done that before. After sanding a guitar for the first time Im thinking wow ,its still ugly . I go out to my garage ,found some wood stain from our hard wood floors and put it on there . It looked cool but it was sticky because at the time I didnt know your supposed to wipe it off as you go. So I thought hey I bet that stuff burns really easy . I told Kelly lets burn this sucker on my grill and he was cool with it . We added gasoline to get the fire going really good then sanded it down again. Longer story shorter after several attempts It turned out amazing. Then my buddy Ian liked his so much he told me to do the same thing to his Samick. Much easier the second time around and done a lot faster.
I finnally decided to do one of my own guitars, a 1987 or 1985 model 4 I think. My mom bought it for me in 1990 for 400 bucks at a pawn shop and held on to it ever sine. The bridge was a Jackson Floyd patent pending over grown peice of crap that broke the body in places. I thought I would never be able to play it again until i figured out it had holes for a normal strat bridge. So I did the same thing to the Charvel with out burning it on the smoker though. I used green and orange food coloring along with some walnut stain mixed together. I used a satin lacquer finish.
I have decided to start refurbing guitars as a form of abstract art in a sense. I dont know what the outcome will be but just like my food its unplanned but dosnt suck. This is a service I will start offering locally to anyone, I dont even want to charge anyone for it because I dont know what the final product will be . My rule is this, 20 bucks for refurbing, I prefer a crappy no name guitar that you absoutley hate and understand that I can only promise it will look and play better than ever. If not then take what I have here and do it, its so fun to watch these guitars have 5 foot flames on them for a few seconds then turn out to be awesome.
contact me at southofdisorder@hotmail.com
Below are examples of my progress over the last couple of months.
So, it started when Kelly Robinson (the bass player of Deaf Angel) dropped a guitar off at my house for me to fix the wiring in his cheap SONATA Guitar. This was the ugliest paint job I have ever seen. He told me "while your at it you can sand it down if you want". Im thinking cool never done that before. After sanding a guitar for the first time Im thinking wow ,its still ugly . I go out to my garage ,found some wood stain from our hard wood floors and put it on there . It looked cool but it was sticky because at the time I didnt know your supposed to wipe it off as you go. So I thought hey I bet that stuff burns really easy . I told Kelly lets burn this sucker on my grill and he was cool with it . We added gasoline to get the fire going really good then sanded it down again. Longer story shorter after several attempts It turned out amazing. Then my buddy Ian liked his so much he told me to do the same thing to his Samick. Much easier the second time around and done a lot faster.
I finnally decided to do one of my own guitars, a 1987 or 1985 model 4 I think. My mom bought it for me in 1990 for 400 bucks at a pawn shop and held on to it ever sine. The bridge was a Jackson Floyd patent pending over grown peice of crap that broke the body in places. I thought I would never be able to play it again until i figured out it had holes for a normal strat bridge. So I did the same thing to the Charvel with out burning it on the smoker though. I used green and orange food coloring along with some walnut stain mixed together. I used a satin lacquer finish.
I have decided to start refurbing guitars as a form of abstract art in a sense. I dont know what the outcome will be but just like my food its unplanned but dosnt suck. This is a service I will start offering locally to anyone, I dont even want to charge anyone for it because I dont know what the final product will be . My rule is this, 20 bucks for refurbing, I prefer a crappy no name guitar that you absoutley hate and understand that I can only promise it will look and play better than ever. If not then take what I have here and do it, its so fun to watch these guitars have 5 foot flames on them for a few seconds then turn out to be awesome.
contact me at southofdisorder@hotmail.com
Below are examples of my progress over the last couple of months.
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