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After finishing the Harmony H27, I have some options for my next project...I'm spoiled for choice and can't decide. Once I do, I'll change the subject name for this thread and use it to post progress. Some of these need more than others. Some time, some money. Unless otherwise noted, I actually do have all the hardware that isn't shown for some of these. Ultimately, I want to leave more things better than I found them and continue to learn skills until I feel confident enough to try building something from scratch.

Guyatone LG80T: St George / Tiesco Hagstrom I Bass Partscaster Strat Tiesco Tulip Synsonics Terminator

Guyatone LG80T or the Tiesco Tulip

guyatone or hagstrom

Fix and flip the St George, sell the Lace Sensors and get out of the rubbish Strat, part out the Tulip (keeping the neck for practice fretting prior to the Guyatone). As for the Hagstrom, maybe talk to a local plastics place who might advise if you can wick a solvent into those cracks and bond them up. Otherwise good old cyanoacrylate (superglue / krazy glue) would wick in if you bought the water-thin variety. You could then wetsand it flat and polish, should be good for quite some time!
Just my cranky opinions, based on my desire to fix and flip a bunch of my projects too.

I’d finish the ones you’re less likely to keep and then move on to the Guyatone and Hagstrom. Couldn’t you just replace the acrylic top on the Hagstrom?

Take my vote with a pinch of sat though, I’m terrible at finishing projects!

Wow, a Terminator! That was my first "real" guitar, but I think mine might have been an even shorter scale. Since you're not all that interested in working on it, if you want to sell it, let me know (although the cost of shipping might be as much as it's worth )

Anyway, I'm gonna vote St George / Tiesco first, since it doesn't need much and you stand to make a profit. Guyatone after that just for the fretwork experience. Take the neck back off the partscaster and sell the body...pickguard / pickups too, unless you paid full price for them and might put them in something else. I will say though, I actually like the green (reminds me of a Burns or Carvin DC), and I think with a black pickguard and decent bridge, it'd turn out nice and you could likely make money selling it if you don't play it much. Maybe even go for black hardware to match the black headstock. Strat parts are so cheap.

Dillon wrote: Sun Oct 19, 2025 9:56 pm Wow, a Terminator! That was my first "real" guitar, but I think mine might have been an even shorter scale. Since you're not all that interested in working on it, if you want to sell it, let me know (although the cost of shipping might be as much as it's worth )

Oh wow, yeah - you'd probably give this thing a better home and I'd be happy to get it off my bench. From what I found online 24" seems to be the common scale, but it definitely feels smaller, due to the tiny body.

I only have like $40 into it, I'd sell it to you for what I paid plus shipping (not including the cool rails)...let me try to get everything back together as much as possible soon and see if I can find a box to ship neck off.

plopswagon wrote: Sat Oct 18, 2025 10:59 pm Guyatone LG80T or the Tiesco Tulip

yep.

I love the Japanese bunch. Any of them would be nice to see restored to their former glory.


By the way, guitarists are the worst. I still remember the days you could get a Teisco from $50 to $300 all day long because every guitarist on the internet could swear they were "hot garbage". Fast forward 15 years and they are all of a sudden super valuable vintage instruments.

For a number of reasons (some good, but mostly bad life stuff) I haven't had the kind of time to put into projects this past year.

I still have these, but will probably end up fixing and flipping the St George and Guyatone, parting out the tulip, not sure what with the Terminator, and fixing the Hagstrom to keep for a bit.

That just leaves the Strat, which might be the worst project on paper and easiest to part out. I realized the green body really is just shit and would need more work than I care to get it right.

I almost went for a gfs body for the father's day sale, but ultimately decided I wanted something more special and remembered MJT bodies on eBay do no reserve auctions.

I was watching a few, and went for this one on impulse. I was initially underwhelmed by the color in person, and the neck pocket took some sanding to fit the Casio neck proper, but I think it's grown on me. It accidently became a Rivers/Corgan dual tribute that's more like if someone butchered an early 60s strat in the 80s but I'm into it.

The only thing I'm not sure about is whether to go full black hardware or mismatch the black tuners?

I'd probably lean into the 90s vibe suggested by the neck and pickups and go full black hardware.

either ^that or kitsch it out and go super tacky on the knobs (dice? puppy faces? vader masks?), find a slider switch that fits the blade slot, and ultra gold trem/bridge with a black reverb handle.

HAGSTROM BASSSSSS. that thing is fucking beautiful.
BTW, I need the high e saddle from that st. george tiesco!
I swear I have the one I lost, I know I do. somewhere....

This weekend I unfretted the Guyatone and have been steadily building up the holes in the Hagstrom with 2 part epoxy. Hagstrom is coming together nice, but will need to order more (better) fretwire for the Guyatone before I can continue on it. Will do an photo dump when I have some time.

I'm probably gonna sell all this stuff when I'm done with it tbh I just have too much gear.

Hagstrom content:

Now, I don't think the original pic sufficiently showed just how bad it was. The whole area from the bridge pickup to the control plate to the output jack were all just floating due to broken plastic.

I think the orange parts are from a previous owner doing a similar repair method unsuccessfully, I'm guessing they used amber epoxy. I broke all that ugly shit off and started over.

So for now, I have the control cavity and output jack patched up with clear JB Weld 2 part epoxy . Plugging and unplugging a cable feels solid which is what I was most worried about. Next I want to add more epoxy to the bridge pickup area, then continue building up the holes around the edges. Then paint the back behind the clear white and black accordingly, wire it up and it should be done!

Someone pm Timhulio

^ I feel with the fragility of a plastic guitar that's been shattered before I wouldn't push my luck shipping this

Anyway I did some more epoxy and just used the white paint I had on the back ....it's more of a "country white", just what I had around the house. I'm not bothered but I might sand it down buy some bright gloss and try again.

Looks way better.