Hocus Pocus by Focus
One of Guitarify’s readers sent me the link to this video. As a fellow Marauder owner, he had written to tell me how he enjoyed my articles about refinishing mine. He included this video due to the Marauder content. You don’t really see pro musicians using the Marauder on stage much.I know Kiss were official […]
The Marauder Project:Part 4
Part1 Part2 Part3 So, in the last episode we were left with an uneven, lemon colored lacquer finish. I mentioned that I came up with a ‘great’ way to fix this, ‘great’ being a relative term here. I bought an air compressor and a spraygun. I actually have a lot of experience mixing and spraying […]
The Marauder Project: Part 2-The Plan
Incase you missed it – part 1 My original plan for refinishing the Marauder was to bring it back to something similar to it’s original color – A deep wine colored stain. But as I looked over images of Marauders with different finishes, most of them being stained rather then painted, something just didn’t seem […]
The Marauder Project: Part 1
The Gibson Marauder was sold from 1975-80. It was the “Norlin era”, considered by many to be a low point in the companies history. About 7,ooo were sold thanks in part, to the low price tag. Designed as an entry level guitar, it had a lot of Fender-type elements such as a bolt on neck […]