In keeping with the hard times we are experiencing,
its only appropriate to do the right thing and release a new Z version;
the "Hard Times" version.
Here is a Z guitar for the HARD TIMES.
Ted Noiz has suggested "As far as building goes, you might have to
scale down and scale back and rethink everything you do if you want to keep
selling guitars. You will have to come up with a way to stay in the game,
like people did in the last depression. They made and sold "depression glass"
for example. You need to come up with a "depression guitar" that will knock
their socks off. A Z2 with only one pickup and a volume knob; glued neck
joint (bolts cost money and take time to line up and drill); made of the
cheapest, shittiest wood you can possibly find, hopefully pine that was
dug out from under a Home Depot dumpster; sanded and waxed, but no stain
or finish. There's got to be a way. If anyone can figure this out -- you
can."
Eli went even further, suggesting for me to
sell guitar to just anyone with money. Reasoning that when they sell the
Z, it will eventually get in the hands of real players. It makes sense and
it may happen. However, this scared the shit right out of me. Its absolutely
horrifying for me to find out someone has got one of my puppies and cannot
play the guitar. Non-players buying guitars is not only absurd, but also
disgusting in my book. I have been taken advantage by some scum like that,
despite how careful I have been. These crafty lying bastards have fooled
me in the past masquerading as guitar players, only to admit later on that
they are not guitar players at all and are only shameless posers who are
mentally unstable. You know who you are, you phony cocksuckers.
I just cannot go that far and sell to these
losers. Just taking anyone's money knowing they cannot even use the Z guitar
and will keep it only as long as it takes them to pick up on a new attraction
based on pure impulse. These stinking pieces of talentless shit can go suck
on a horses ass and buy a PRS instead. That's what they are made for. Make
that goof rich, I don't care. I don't want you fucking money. You know exactly
who you are, do I need to mention any names here?
All right, that did it. I got angry again even
though I promised myself I will hold myself back this month. Well, you should
know by now that there cannot be any Z guitars without anger or negativity.
Its the most crucial ingredient to the Z process. To all the tinkerers who
ask me how they can become guitar builders ... well, here is your answer,
free of charge.
All the hippie shit who used to say they do drugs to be creative. Its all
a bunch of crap. Drugs only numb your brain and you become nothing but a
passive brain-dead liberal in support of political correctness, working
for the government. You disgust me, you worthless piece of crap.
Its anger you need to create the greatest stuff on earth. Anger will be
your strongest driving force to move the world, turn it upside down and
rebuild it to your own design.
So if you are not angry yet, start getting angry now before its too late
and let it motivate you to take charge of yourself.
Description
of the HARD TIMES version Z
Basically with the HT, you will have no choice
over anything. I will just make them and if you can play the guitar, you
can just buy them. As simple as that.
I will use only several body styles. Yes the Z2 will be one and so will
the R480 and even the G1 and maybe a few others. If it does not take extra
time to make I will use the body style.
Only single coil like P90 or ZAP pickups will be used. Only one selector
switch will be used, with just a volume knob (no Tone knob). A top mounted
jack and no control cavity cover. No top position markers (only side dots).
No tremolo of any type. One size frets only. No fancy wood of any type.
Mahogany or maple necks only and maple or Pau Ferro fingerboards only. No
choice of scale lengths, you get what's availalble. Case included. Flat
price of $1500
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Even though this is the first Hard Times Z guitar, consequent examples will
differ from this slightly.
Here I used a new wood, I had never used before. Its called Obeche and it
looks like Mahogany but lighter in color, almost yellow, extremely soft
and extremely light. Not only is the body light but so is the neck. This
is not genuine South American Mahogany, but the much softer and lighter
African variety. The weight of the body and neck is very well matched to
result in an impossibly light guitar. Did you see the weight of this guitar?
Under 5 lb. at 4.9 lb. Just amazingly light. Its more like an air guitar
or what one of those Guitar Hero game-guitars must weigh. This now must
be the lightest guitar I ever created. I could not help thinking that Jimmy
Page should have used this throughout his Zeppelin career, instead of that
10+ lb Les Paul, which turned him into a gray and frail old man. Many think
it was the heroin that did it but it was actually the Led-Gibson he was
using all those years. I guess doing drugs make you stupid and you don't
realize you are playing a heavy guitar which will kill you or at least ruin
your health..
As mentioned above, this guitar is also very
soft. No doubt it will be quickly a relic, but not the fake Fender custom
shop way, but the real way. It will dent and scratch even if you look at
it the wrong way. It was difficult not to work damage it while I was making
it. Its almost as soft as Balsa wood. Amazingly light and soft. You had
never felt a guitar like this before.
String used
ZOG 10+ Nickel-Plated Round Wound
This guitar also has the top fingerboard position
markers which you will not get on the HT model. It also has the exotic Obeche
wood, which is not figured but still unique. You will also not get the one
piece body wood that this guitar has. You will also not get the dual size
frets, one size frets only.
However, needless to even mention, the HT model
will be just as good of a guitar as any other Z guitar, since every other
detail, workmanship, design and construction will be identical to all other
Zachary guitars. So, you will just not get the options and frills.
What you will get is a serious tar and feathering
by Ted Noiz if you do try to pass yourself off as a guitar player when you
know you are not. If that's what you are into then you should know that
guitar boutiques were created just for you, to take the money of posers
like you. They speak your language ... I clearly don't.
Players wanted!
VIDEO on youtube (unplugged) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkUYxSrrXdk
