It sounds like a simple thing when the painter says "can you just take down those guitars so I can paint that wall?" but when there's 40 or 50 of them & they are all bolted to the wall as part of my "Hall of Horrors" (ie. my collecton of wacky, crazy, ugly... call them what you will guitars?!) it is not such a quick or easy exercise!!
My collection started over 25 years ago when someone came in with an old Hagstrom guitar to ask if was OK for his son to learn on? He'd bought it in the early 60's while he was in the Navy but had never played it himself. I thought it was awesome however it was pretty much unplayable so in the end I suggested we swap it for a better & more modern guitar that his son would be able to learn play on (& that his mates would think was cool!). Meanwhile, I thought his old guitar was SO cool I decided to keep it & hang it up "Not for Sale" in the shop. And here we are over 25 years later & there's over 50 of them in collection! Mostly have been brought in by people wanting to get rid of them or trade them in but other I've picked up at Antique Fairs, Garage Sales or Auctions & most of them aren't worth very much in $ value but they're a lot of fun & there's quite a bit of history there now. While they were off the wall I asked Don from Mosquito Graphic Design to come in & take photo's of them so I can pout them up on our website at some point.... when I've got nothing else to do! (Yeah, right!).
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