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This one's alder, 2-pc mahogany neck with ebony board, carbon fibre rods which I slimmed down somewhat.
In primer in pic 2 it weighs under 6 and a half pounds. A dry build had it playing cleanly at 1.3mm action with no fretwork done.
Not sure it shows in pics really but I have a trick/thing to make black deeper than your normal factory black. All landed with it's new owner who is very chuffed. I'm one of those that doesn't take praise well but makes me happy when folk are happy
Take two baking trays and boil a kettle. Set the oven to 60 deg (fan).
Add a teaspoon of turmeric to one pan, and some kettle water. Stir well. Add about another third of cool water.
Carefully place your white pickguard, lightly de-glossed, in the tray. Cook for 3-5 mins.
Remove pg, wash off (if you made it too hot and the pg is bendy, flatten it on a chopping board or whatever, it'll cool flat easily).
Check in different lights, flouro lights vs daylight will be very different. If pg is too bright then cook in the second tray in hot water alone, keep checking for colour.
When happy, pour hot (not boiling) water over bits of it - makes the colour less even/less like a 'bought' green pg.
Add more ageing & detail if you want, didn't bother here, this is just my workhorse non-glamorous Strat
Pic doesn't show the variation and slightly used/worn/patchy details to it, but hey-
Beer!
Cheers one & all, best wishes for Xmas and the New Year.
Thanks for all the stuff you’ve done for me this year.
See you shortly with the new project which arrived just in time for Crimbo!
Si
Si - nice catch you on the other side
Ebony pickup covers, Babicz trem, NOS bakelite knobs. 501 Gotoh tuners, 6000 frets.
The trem arm has had a slight chop since these and a new seamless tip added -
I love black limba unreasonably ...
And the level-controlled side lighting:
Utterly incredible..
Si
Next time Si Plug into amps if you've got time, give stuff a run out.