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Post by thetragichero on Jul 17, 2011 12:13:24 GMT -5
with quite a bit of effort on my part, i turned this  into this  next up is mighty mite neck (plays like a dream!) on a gfs pauwlonia body  finally, aria body with the scalloped neck that used to be on the black squier  i have one more project in the works, an odyssey strat copy that looks like somebody tried to "relic" it with a friggin band saw... oh craigslist, you never seem to disappoint me with your surprises  |
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Post by cynical1 on Jul 17, 2011 12:26:45 GMT -5
That Strat turned out nice. I love the color, but I am a bit partial...I've got a JM style project the same seafoam green... And your output rate is better then mine. But I would question your estimation that the Odyssey was relic'd with a bandsaw...I think it was probably a sandblaster...  +1 for the Strat. Very clean. Happy Trails Cynical One |
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Post by Yew on Jul 17, 2011 13:41:27 GMT -5
For the 'Relic' I though a heat gun  |
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Post by cynical1 on Jul 17, 2011 13:48:02 GMT -5
Just for reference, am I the only one who feels that artificial relicing is something akin to a spray on tan for a guitar?
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Post by thetragichero on Jul 17, 2011 14:00:52 GMT -5
i've never understood it
i prefer to have each dent remind me of how i got it, not of how i attacked the finish one day when i was bored (or, taking into account the previous owner, tweaking)
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Post by Double Yoi on Jul 17, 2011 16:50:44 GMT -5
I didn't like it at first. Fake mojo. Then I realized, some folks like black guitars, some like to put stickers on theirs, some like beeswax:). If you think about it its just a paint job, or lack there of. I played the fender road worns...they were nice...
Yours are really cool. +1
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Post by thetragichero on Jul 30, 2011 12:07:21 GMT -5
here is a[n almost] completed photo (ordered a set of black tele-style knobs from hong kong, so this should be finished within the neck three months):  sanded the finish off the neck and refinished with tung oil, scrubbed the crap out of the fretboard with murphy's oil soap, polished the frets with 0000 steel wool and then the polishing wheel of my dremel pickups are highway one neck pickup (wound to a whopping 11k dcr) in the bridge/tex mex bridge pickup (in the middle)/texas special neck pickup (in the neck) controls are 3-way switch (doesn't have the notches, but it's easy to get the quack tones), master volume, middle tone (push/pull is middle phase switch), neck/bridge tone (push/pull is neck-on switch that also takes the neck out of the tone circuit) this strat definitely seems a lot more 'bluesy' than any of the others i own... hopefully it'll help me hone my blues licks |
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Post by cynical1 on Jul 30, 2011 12:15:17 GMT -5
Interesting theme...a blues guitar tribute to...New Jersey...hmmm...
Well, now you're gonna have to put a sound clip up for this one...looks alone get you nothing...
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Post by thetragichero on Jul 30, 2011 12:38:37 GMT -5
well i chose pickups like a 'texas' strat, so it's my texas by-way-of-new jersey strat
gotta rep my home state, even though i'm glad to be out!
and yeah, i owe you guys samples for the last five partscasters... gotta try to find some time between playing gigs and recording other bands and working to give you your long overdue sound samples!
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Post by newey on Jul 30, 2011 14:28:32 GMT -5
Didn't the whole State follow you to Florida? Except, of course, for those NJ'ers older than you who were already there? ;D
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