Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
The Zombiecaster is a 1980s Japanese or Korean Squier Bullet that looks like the illegitimate spawn of a Tele, Strat, and ES175. It has a little body made of mahogany veneers that's about the size of a Les Paul, but Tele shaped on top and ES175 shaped with a pointy cutaway. It will resonate forever. The neck is more Strat-like, and the pickups started life as a couple single coils and a humbucker at the bridge. It's got a Strat tremolo. I got it in baggies, and the pickups were awful. The finish was trashed. So, what to do? Sand it down and rattle can it, of course. White primer, then silver, then a clear green over the top. It was supposed to look like crinkled green cellophane, but it mostly came out looking like green clear over mediocre silver paint. The pickups are now a couple of Lace Alumatones and a P-Rail with some additional switching. I have spent huge amounts of time and money on it, and it's still worth about what I paid for it. It was in a couple freezer bags and another plastic bag when I got it. That tells you everything you need to know about its market value before and after. But, I love it. It's called the Zombiecaster because it was revived from the dead, and it's green, as zombies should be. I have photos of it somewhere, but not on this computer.
