{"id":37,"date":"2012-01-25T22:13:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T22:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/guitar\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2012-12-03T06:44:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T06:44:15","slug":"the-jellocaster","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/guitar\/electric-guitars\/the-jellocaster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jellocaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Year:<\/strong> Who cares?
\nFinish:<\/strong> Translucent purple lucite
\nOrigin:<\/strong> China by way of California
\nPrice Paid:<\/strong> $200
\nMods:<\/strong> Guitar Fetish Lil\u2019 Killer pickups, Schaller straplocks, generic chrome knobs
\nAcquired:<\/strong>\u00a02005
\nStill owned:<\/strong> No<\/p>\n

The Story:<\/strong>
\nI saw a bunch of Plexiglas guitars on eBay under the name Galveston (Made in China, natch). I love the weird ones; how could I resist? But when I brought them up at the forums over at Rock & Roll Confidential<\/a>, serial guitinkerer jackassrock said, \u201cI have half of one, please take it.\u201d He sent me the body, pickguard, and neckplate for free, just to get them out of his house. I took them over to Greg at Orbiter Guitars<\/a> and said, \u201cCan we make this work? It would be funny.\u201d He happened to have a battered 70’s Fender neck that someone had given him to practice refrets and whatnot, so he painted the headstock purple, drilled the holes, threw in some spare Schaller tuners, installed some Lil\u2019 Killer railed humbuckers<\/a> I\u2019d gotten from Guitar Fetish<\/a>, and wired the pickups to a mini-toggle for reasons I don’t remember — I think he just wanted to try it as an experiment. I took care of the requisite knobs. So for about $200 tops, I had a see-through mongrel oddball. Greg called it the Grape Ape, but I always felt it was the Jellocaster.<\/p>\n

It looked great but sounded as tinny as you\u2019d expect and it weighed a ton \u2013 heavier than the Les Paul<\/a>. I played it at a fraternity party in inclement weather because I figured it was indestructible. Ultimately I returned the tuners to Greg, scavenged the pickups for a future unnamed project, and sold it to a friend who thought it would look cool on her wall. Better there than in my collection.<\/p>\n