cmatthes Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Ah...that makes sense then, I guess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugartune Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 He needed to hack up that LP to get the neck. You know, that's the best way to go about getting a neck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamersandstrats Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 I just remember him at the guitar shows trying to pass his homemade Gibsons off as the real thing. He would look you straight in the eye and say-this one's from the Custom Shop-look at that top! With a sign "1959 Gibson Les Paul Reissue" next to it. I wonder how many people fell for that crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 He had a very interesting idea of what "conversion" meant. He and Theseus might have had an interesting discussion about ships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugartune Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 ^^ ha! I thought the same thing. So conversion means "replace the whole thing but the neck, and sometimes even the neck too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake8773 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 This is a lie on Ed's part, isn't it? The dude lies stretches the truth about so much I have trouble believing this:http://www.edroman.com/guitars/hamer_for_sale.htmlI grew up on the east coast and learned very early that Ed Roman is bad news. One word: Avoid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hfan Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Well I would hate to meet him now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff_hartwell Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I was in high school in the early 90s and went to East Coast Music Mall regularly because of the repair guy there. I can't remember his name, and he was pretty burned out, but he did all kinds of crazy mods I asked him to do, including making a set of EMG's and a set of Mike Christian piezo acoustic saddles run off the same power supply in a Carvin bolt kit I made. (Of course, before I discovered the blessed Duotone ) He did great work, and always found a way to make whatever I wanted to do *work*. What was his name?... Ugh. Anyway, there were a couple of really cool staff there too. Some resurfaced when I was teaching at the NGW years later. But they were all cool, in spite of Ed, Haha. My memories of Ed are contrasting, like the man himself. He was always very nice to me directly. I was a young kid and a decently respectable player who was friendly and cool with all the sales guys, so he was never a dick to me directly. An occasional off-color joke to me, but in a old biker kind of way. On the other hand I saw him say and do shit that I would not inflict on my enemies' dog to people, especially customers, that blew my mind. Being simultaneously condescending, insulting and provoking. It was a talent, I think. Or a compulsion, who knows. And then, as whoever he just talked to blinked and moved on, he would literally turn around and make a foul joke, laugh and waddle off. So I've got nothing against him personally, but I remember even back then thinking, "Wow, I wouldn't trust this guy as far as I could throw him..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Browne Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Was the repairman named Barry Lipman?I was never at that shop, but I believe that he worked there.He also had a guitar tech column in Guitar for the Practicing Musician. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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