I walked into his shop at Augusta and Western while waiting for my friend who teaches at the school next door. He builds guitars and basses out of crazy junk. Like this:

Ah yes, the old satellite dish guitar.
I didn't have the time to try any out, though i did buy a Bellari LA120 tube compressor/limiter for $60. Has anyone played one of these before? Of course he assured me that I would not find a better playing guitar for my $1500 than the Church Ghost:

The body is made out of wood pipes from an 1800's church pipe organ. Apparantly one of the dudes in Queens of the Stone Age owns a similiar one called the Christocaster. He was also very toasted when I went in, so he wasn't very cognizant answering questions about his gear that he built.
http://www.fredmangan.com

righteous

SchmutZ wrote:I walked into his shop at Augusta and Western while waiting for my friend who teaches at the school next door. He builds guitars and basses out of crazy junk. Like this:

Ah yes, the old satellite dish guitar.
I didn't have the time to try any out, though i did buy a Bellari LA120 tube compressor/limiter for $60. Has anyone played one of these before? Of course he assured me that I would not find a better playing guitar for my $1500 than the Church Ghost:

The body is made out of wood pipes from an 1800's church pipe organ. Apparantly one of the dudes in Queens of the Stone Age owns a similiar one called the Christocaster. He was also very toasted when I went in, so he wasn't very cognizant answering questions about his gear that he built.
http://www.fredmangan.com

This tool is the worst. You came in my shop with a stupid look on your face
like my store was a joke and you were the only one with the punch line.
I remember your transparent smirk as you drove away with some woman you were telling a lie too...what a choad you be.
I'm completely sober over 15 years now. No booze or drugs period.
I drink a ton of coffee and smoke allot of cigarettes thats it.
I masturbated on the Bellari while you watched the Queens video because
you deserve the best.
Please don't show your face in my store ever....ever...ever.

Damn. This shop is literally a one minute walk from my apartment. I've noticed it a couple-few times, and meant to go check it out, and always thought I should and would. And now, I'm left feeling like I really ought not. So yeah, good work Fred.

Good for you Fred. Defend yourself and your sobriety. I thought Shumtz's original comment about your alleged inebriation was inappropriate.

PS I usually prefer to piss and or crap on Bellari's. They don't rate high enough for jizz.

And those are beautiful guitars.

"FredMangan" is actually Leon Sumbitches.

Compare:

FredMangan wrote:You came in my shop with a stupid look on your face like my store was a joke and you were the only one with the punch line. I remember your transparent smirk as you drove away with some woman you were telling a lie too...what a choad you be... Please don't show your face in my store ever....ever...ever.

Leon Sumbitches wrote:Your sentences are songs sung in the key of lie. A bird will not land when you are speaking, for the branch will wilt under your wicked breath... You are a toilet seat that smokes a cigar / forever that is what you are / a toilet seat that smokes a cigar.. the end.

This tool is the worst. You came in my shop with a stupid look on your face
like my store was a joke and you were the only one with the punch line.
I remember your transparent smirk as you drove away with some woman you were telling a lie too...what a choad you be.
I'm completely sober over 15 years now. No booze or drugs period.
I drink a ton of coffee and smoke allot of cigarettes thats it.
I masturbated on the Bellari while you watched the Queens video because
you deserve the best.
Please don't show your face in my store ever....ever...ever.

I actually thought your store was odd and kinda interesting, until I read through your little conniption fit this morning. Congratulations on being sober, but when I walked into your store you were acting like you just burned one. It wasn't just the blank look in your eyes, but mostly the fact that you couldn't even answer the most mundane questions about your gear without stammering.
"Hey Fred, what kind of pick-up did you put in this guitar that you built that you are trying to sell?"
"Uh....Uh...Aww..I don't know, but hey check out this video where this guy mentions my name."
Do you, Fred Mangan, think that a pick-up is so inconsequential to the quality and sound of a guitar that you don't need to know what kind it is? Or do you think that showing someone a video with a guy who may/ may not be in Queens of the Stone Age holding one of your contraptions will sufficently impress me enough to drop $1500 on a guitar that looks like a cuckoo clock?
Even though you told me to my face that the Bellari was a good compressor, I'm glad you were finally honest on this faceless message board. After you took my money. My first clue should've been to never buy any equipment covered in burnout old codger spunk, but at least I learned a $60 lesson instead of a $1500 one. Salut! Too bad about that guy from The Queens, though.
I didn't know anything about you or your shop, so thanks for telling me more about yourself than anyone else could have. You are an Honest man, Fred Mangan. This world needed another Honest buisnessman like you! If anyone is ever in the market for an overpriced, kitsch-y, gimmick-y piece of equipment, I will send them to Honest Fred's Electric Guitars.
If I for some reason have that need, I will honor your advice

don't show your face in my store ever....ever...ever

and take my buisness to Specimen Products.

Are you really surprised that a guy who makes weird found object art guitars is going to reply the way he did?

He is obviously the real deal. You should go back and buy one before he gets a show in some snotty SOHO art gallery and his rigs are selling for 15k.

Can I just say, I'm really enjoying this thread.

FredMangan wrote:This tool is the worst. You came in my shop with a stupid look on your face
like my store was a joke and you were the only one with the punch line.
I remember your transparent smirk as you drove away with some woman you were telling a lie too...what a choad you be.
I'm completely sober over 15 years now. No booze or drugs period.
I drink a ton of coffee and smoke allot of cigarettes thats it.
I masturbated on the Bellari while you watched the Queens video because
you deserve the best.
Please don't show your face in my store ever....ever...ever.

Hey Fred, fuck you. You sound like a regular prick. Your novelty guitars aren't even as funny as those made by the Heavils,



and besides, fuck you.

Did you hear me Fred Mangan? I said you sound like a regular prick, you make expensive novelty guitars and also fuck you.