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Many exciting new jobs in recently and will try to do a longer post soon, just hard to find the time.
I'm posting pretty frequently on instagram now if you want to see some pretty pictures:
https://instagram.com/rexterguitars/
and if anyone feels like liking my facebook page, that would be most appreciated
https://facebook.com/rexterguitars
In the meantime I have some beautiful bodies for sale - 2 50s sunburst strat bodies and Firemist Gold tele body.
£275 each shipped in the UK to fretboard members for the next 3 days
More info on the strat bodies on my website which is still very haphazard while I find time to sort it.
They are both 2 piece alder and 1.7 and 1.8KG I think - will get exact weights. Tele is 2 piece alder and 2kg.
https://rexterguitars.co.uk/collections/nitro-guitar-bodies
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Candy Apple Red - got the colour coats on yesterday, will have 3-4 clearcoats before hanging to cure
General stuff that's going on:
Wait, WTF is this... not a Jazzmaster?? Something by @GSPBASSES I've done for @TTony
New paintroom is practically palatial compared to my old setup.
Sooo... yeah, things good in the new place, social media going well and I'm catching up on my jobs. Really positive feedback coming in which is the best thing and exciting new jobs keep cropping up.
All good.
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See you again in a couple of weeks when it's all ready!
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Big shipment of bodies coming in soon so there will be lots more for sale and have a couple of complete guitars in the works.
I've also been planing and jointing some really nice poplar boards to make some vintage correct Mustang bodies (no one is making these in the UK) but I really don't know when I'll find time to actually start building them, the whole finishing thing is just so time consuming!
Weather has been great this autumn but it's starting to get to the time of year when humidity becomes an issue when painting. I think I'll be spending some time over the next few weeks devising a way to build a DIY air handling unit (or something far more low-tech!) ensuring that the air being pulled into my paint room is already dehumidified and warm.
I'm lucky to have a corridor room between one of my main workshop areas and the paint room where I keep my turbines, so if this is completely sealed and the air kept dry in here I'm thinking this is perhaps the best way. It's fine having dehumidifiers and heaters running in the booth, which I do, but once the powerful extractor is running it sucks in external air from all over the place. That will all be fun I'm sure.
The 1966 Jag got buffed the other day and is ready to fly back home to Germany:
Another aged Firemist Silver JM in the works:
Swamp ash tele body stained yellow pre sunburst
Nice burst taking shape:
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and just remembered another one i posted on there earlier this week - finished up a gorgeous sherwood green HSS hardtail strat body for @TwoSpellWizard from here - deep, flakey, super-flat mirror finish.
and something a bit different to my usual OTT metallic obsession - a satin green stain, black grainfiller swamp ash tele for @MtB is nearing completion
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(formerly customkits)
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A down and dirty CBS era style burst on a swamp ash body after a couple of heavy clear coats. Will get a couple more before curing and ageing. Will be for sale in due time.
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Interesting combo but maybe a bit too much?
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I like tort and I like gold anodised guards (a lot) but TBH i don't think anything looks better with most of the custom colour metallics than 3 ply white or off white with a wide bevel. Boring? Maybe, but just looks right to me.
There's a craze to put tort on everything now it seems, remember when that first kicked off on the offsetguitars.com forum (cue contemplative music as he enters a reverie) but I just don't think it works in a lot of cases, especially if it's low quality modern stuff.
The old tort had so much variation in tone and colour, an almost 3d quality sometimes with lots of light orange and white flecks on the best examples. Modern stuff doesn't do it for me most of the time. Spitfire is great of course, but even as a total snob I've never been able to justify that much £££ on a pickguard. I've picked up vintage guards for the same kind of money.
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Mixing F and G styles floats my non replica boat
(formerly customkits)
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