Cali x 2 Day

[diablo175]

The return of Ha Cali was announced last week but as I got both it and the Cali Elite LE my wife gave me for the birthday, back from my repair guy today, I thought I'd share them here. 

The LE was pretty knackered; ridden hard and put away wet... or at least without a proper wipe down or anything resembling basic routine maintenance since 2010? 😬 The Hamer-stamped trem was DOA- pitted and pocked with corrosion. The frets had string indentations and almost needed a tetanus shot to be administered after playing. The finger board had a sizable, undisclosed crack that was repaired at some point but not properly with ebony dust. Lastly, the input jack was t*ts up. Luckily, my go-to guitar repair guy made it tip top again! I even had a good condition, Hamer-stamped Floyd to put on it!!! Woohoo!!! 🥳

 

 

[veatch]

If you ever want to move the purple le, please let me know. : )

Edited Friday at 03:00 AM by veatch

[diablo175]

8 hours ago, veatch said:

If you ever want to move the purple le, please let me know. : )

Funny you should mention that. Was musing over why I jettisoned all of my previous LE's and Cali's (save for the C³). I love almost everything thing about them. I'm looking at you, Mr. blade switch.   But after a nice, long wank on this one, I'm reasonably certain it's the board radius. I just get on better with flatter radii. Particularly, when I venture up into the weedily-weedily region of the 17th-24th frets. 

That said, I think it's fair to say that this LE and the HA won't be around for very long. 

[velorush]

The Killing Joke is one of my favorites of all of your creations (and that spans a lot of guitars). It was just such a great non-sequitur and incredibly executed.

Piti it was divvied up and good on you for putting it back together.

[scottcald]

Cool!  You’re like Rudy on The $6million Man rebuilding better, faster, stronger.