A Geek Goes Flying

Much to my surprise, I found myself with six guitars[1] (seven, if you count the battered 10 year old JS34 Dinky I keep at the office, that I bought off a guy from Taft in the alley behind the Virgil ). And my small space was starting to get cluttered. Most of the cheap stands I found on Amazon were too big, or only fit a smaller number of guitars, or had enough 1-star reviews to make me nervous. $130 isn’t a huge splurge, but it’s more than I wanted to spend - but I’m glad I did, on this  String Swing Guitar Stand for 6 Electric or Bass, or 3 Acoustic Guitars for Home or Studio (CC34) . (After being inundated with ads for their stuff on Facebook etc.) (I kinda want to wall hang, too (or, like, shelf-hang, maybe with something like this ?), but I have no idea where I could do that where it would look “right.” I’m planning on wall hanging one guitar out in my living room where I’ll be reminded to pick it up every day.)   The CC34 stand with one acoustic, five electric guitars ...

The modified EC-500 guitar So Facebook Marketplace showed me this guitar (a made in Korea  circa 2006 ESP LTD EC-500 ) when it was listed for $280. I wasn’t that interested in a Les Paul style guitar, the price was good but not jaw dropping, and the seller was all the way down in Orange County. But. They dropped the price to $200 and I happened to be going down to O.C. to meet a friend at Disneyland, so, well, you know ... Original equipment / specs vs. as-modified: SET NECK CONSTRUCTION 24.75” SCALE MAHOGANY BODY 3-PIECE MAHOGANY NECK EBONY FINGERBOARD MODEL NAME AT 12TH FRET EMG 81 (B) / 60 (N) ACTIVE PICKUPS (replaced with “Hot ceramic pickup”) VOLUME & TONE CONTROLS W/3-WAY TOGGLE BLACK HARDWARE (Now mixed...) GROVER TUNERS (replaced with “Hipshot locking tuners” ( these? )) EARVANA COMPENSATED NUT TUNE-O-MATIC BRIDGE  (replaced with “Babicz bridge” ( this? )) W/STRING-THRU-BODY 24 XJ FRETS Anyway. It apparently had an MSRP of $899 when new. So far, I  love...