Birthday NGD

JamieWakeham

The modern take on Keef's Micawber that I've posted about before is finally finished - this 40th birthday present to myself actually arrived two days before my 42nd birthday!

Body (one piece swamp ash) and neck (7.25" radius with a thinnish C profile and vintage fretwire) by Guitarbuild.  Rather lovely nitro finish by @lamf68. Pickups are @Alegree Cirrostratus bridge and Chameleon.

Yes, those are forearm and tummy contours, because guitar design didn't need to be frozen as of 1953 ;-)   The control layout is unusual - the pickup selector switcher the Chameleon between humbucker-P90-single coil, and the 'tone' control is actually a blend between the two pickups.  I'm still experimenting, but the ability to blend just a little bridge coil into a neck position is really flexible.

I think this might be a lifer.  Clare is getting just the slightest bit tired of me banging out Brown Sugar and Honky Tonk Women...

danny_777

Congrats and happy birthday! I have recently discovered the joys of open G and completely understand the need to bang out non-stop Stones - it's impossible not to.

merlin

Nice guitar and good catch and happy birthday for Wednesday, although You Can't Always Get What You Want in time for your 40th....! 

It's a great finish and probably gives you loads of Satisfaction, but why don't you Paint it Black?

LastMantra

Happy birthday fella. Guitar looks very nice, proper guitar player's guitar.

JamieWakeham

Thanks, all.  There is something primal about hammering The Riff according to His Keefness.

Merlin: if Rich can do an emergency refin in sparkly red in the next 12 hours, would that make it a Ruby Tuesday?

mrkb

Congrats, looks great. What caused the 2 year delay? Supply issues or indecision on what parts to buy?

JamieWakeham

Lots of things!  I got the body and neck in late 2018, and wanted to get the finished body back from Rich before I made decisions about the hardware, but hadn't quite appreciated how long it takes nitro to dry.  Then did most of the rest of the ordering, umm-ed and ah-ed about pickups with Alex for quite a long time.  I then faffed about getting everything to the chap who was building it up for me, and when I finally got it there it turned out he was crazy busy and had a several month waiting list.  And then we went into Lockdown 2.0.

Worth the wait.  All I need to do now is sort out some headstock decals, and then add a few decades of natural relicing.

rlw

And its not reliced - fab

usedtobe

I like it. I’m with you regarding the forearm and belly contours, too!

lovestrat74

Well... Happy Birthday to yooooo!!

BahHumbug

Happy Birthday Jamie.  I recognise that Egnater Tweaker.  Have you been enjoying it?

JamieWakeham

BahHumbug said:

Happy Birthday Jamie.  I recognise that Egnater Tweaker.  Have you been enjoying it?

Really liking it, thanks!  I can only give house room to one amp, so this little micro stack is my one-amp-to-rule-them-all.  With a greenback in one cab and a Jensen in the other, it can do a pretty good imitation of most of the classic sounds.  Hope you're both well.

Fez

Lovely guitar. Happy birthday.

steer

Nice Rug

JamieWakeham

steer said:

Nice Rug

Fnar fnar ;-)

I should probably have hoovered up the dog's hairs first!