Found a guitar in a skip

[Elliot]

A Hohner Countryman - total rubbish - but in good condition and the tuners lock tight (I think this is due to age and poor quality, not design).  

It has the highest action in the world!  So I cleaned it up, put on some Newtone Michael Messer National slide strings - 16-59 together with some Tusq bridge pins and Planet Waves O-Port I had unused and, tuned to G, it makes a great delta slide guitar.  Proof that there is some use for cr@p guitars.  

[FELINEGUITARS]

nice one - a good use for such a guitar

[richard]

Amazing what you can find in skips. My mates found me in a skip once.

[AndyR]

Excellent! :D

[TheyCallMeVolume]

Very cool! Just make sure you don't actually try to play the thing, you might break your fingers!

[dave_mc]

nice :D

[blue]

i found a little Kustom practice amp in a skip a few weeks ago.  hardly the world's greatest amp, but it works perfectly, and doesn't sound at all bad for messing about in the living room.  amazing what people will throw out these days, especially when there are so many straightforward ways to move them on to other people.  lucky i know the guy at the dump, as he says it's strictly forbidden for anyone to take anything away.  an understandable rule, to deter scavenging, but what about these perfectly good things people are just throwing away?

i've recently seen a cash register and a full desktop PC lying in the ditch at the side of the road.  what is wrong with these people?

[TheyCallMeVolume]

Jeez, I wish people would dump out stuff like this by me.

[Telerocker]

Some people have all the luck!  :D

[Johnny Mac]

Nice one! I've found a few guitars, a little practise amp, a recording interface and a decent keyboard in a skip. Mind you I was in the skip game for years.