This guitar was handed to me by a very special kickass member of the band...his name was Philip. It all started in the "way back when" times and he got his first guitar...A Synsonics Electic Guitar...for two dollars...at a garage sale...this guitar was in such a bad shape that his private lesson teacher asked him if he could possibly buy a better one. A few years later I met philip through a friend and our guitar styles clicked like no other! he told me about this guitar and how he planned on smashing it if he were ever to play a real gig. I asked him if he would let me see it so that i could at least try to repair on my own and make something of it before it was doomed. He said, "Keep it." So i did. but i wanted something special...like no other...so i sanded this baby's paint off and got my sharpie out. I traced the areas i wanted to cut and then pulled out my skill saw...i cut and i cut and i cut... it took from the time of Middle of May till Middle of September of 2001 for it to get finished. Proud i am, and proud i will be till the end...