Sears Unknown

God knows where and why this thing was made, but it was my first guitar, given to me in 1980. It was a piece of shite when I got it, but it was enough to learn on. It was most definitely plywood, with two strat-style single coil pick-ups. It had a crappy rosewood fretboard on a plywood neck that was held on by two screws. Fortunately, it had a tune-o-matic style bridge and not a vibrato, or I never would have kept it in tune. It was a really ugly 3 colour sunburst, strat-style body, crappy tuners...you get the picture. So why am I even writing a review of it? because...

...Once I replaced the pick-ups, added a toggle switch, replaced all the wiring, pots, jack, tuners... this guitar totally rocked. Because it was made from shitty wood, it had a really unique tone to it. With vintage strat pick-ups (inherited from an uncle's trashed '65 strat), it had a real distinctive sound. At the time I had an amp that had one knob - volume, so I didn't have much to go on, until I played it through a Fender Twin... man, what a tone! It was still hard to play, the neck was an atrocity I never did bother to replace, but it was worth the time and effort to fix up.

Uhhh...again, this was a piece of shite until I got hold of it.

I never used this guitar to gig with, but it did stay with me until I could afford a decent guitar. Then I swapped out the pick-ups to sweeten up an 80's strat. After a few years of sitting around in storage, I decided to do something crazy with it. I made it into an electric sitar (which ended up a disaster and ruined my Sears guitar).

Never dealt with them.

It was my first guitar and a real experience in guitar modification and repair, so it was priceless. It really was a piece of shite, but it 'cleaned up good'. I went on to strats, rics, les pauls, everything... they're all better guitars! Just because I can get a little sentimental over my first guitar doesn't mean I'm stupid.

Welp, this is a good little strummer, it has one pickup, kinda in the middle, one volume, one tone, and an jack. Once again get a load of them features! This is my uncle's old guitar from when he was a kid, it's a Sear's from the 60's, sadly it's not a Silvertone. Tuners are open casing crappos and it has a crappy bridge that's not adjustable, and a stupid looking tailpiece. Short scale neck and big ass headstock.

In dispite of it's lack of features, the soundd it puts out is great for rhythm parts, and has a bluesy lead tone when the tone is rolled down. So it can put out some nice sounds.

Nice plywood body, cheap looking sunburst and very playable neck. enough said

Well, me and one of my friends had nothing to do one night so we took out and old body and neck made of the same stuff and smashed it, surprisingly it put up a fight. The neck broke easily, but the body took quite a beating. If it ever came down to it and I didn't have my Lone Star with me, and actually had to play it at a show it could take the abuse and come out looking just as good.

I've been playing for three years and I own some nice stuff, and some stuff just to play with, this belonging to the latter category. If it was stolen (God forbid), and asuming that I could find another I would buy it in a heartbeat. Whenever I just want to sit down, write, and not have to worry about adjusting stuff this is the guitar I play. So I like it a lot