My Neighbor Found This Guitar in a Dumpster...

Losing my good neighbors down the road here soon. They are moving to Oklahoma. They stopped by the other day asking if I knew some one who wanted to buy a guitar they to fix up. I said let's see. I ended up basically trading them a tank of gas for this project. 

What they had was an old Ventura hollow body. Ventura is a descendant of the Burno Company which was making guitars before the Civil War. It's kind of a Gibson 335 copy. An educated guess says made some where between 1965 and 1980 in Japan. After 1980 would have had a pointed head stock. Nice maple neck with block in lays on a rose wood fret board. Pickups work, seems like the bridge pickup is fine, loud hum from the neck pick up made Coraline cry. Nothing I can't stand. Bridge is missing, no strings and the nut has had some amateur alterations to it. Probably glued on with super glue which will be the hardest fix. . 

I think for a few bucks I will be able to make this into a decent Hound Dog Taylor slide guitar with a great nasty sound. You know what they say, "Three chords, a red guitar and the truth."