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Adam's '66 as seen in his recent thread. It had a ropey paint job but was carrying all of it's old wear. Stripping it kept all that intact. Three blow screw holes needed sorting, did that with the smallest possible alder plugs. A fluted dowel had been glued in to rescue a blown control plate screw hole, that got routed out and a piece of alder let in.
I don't mind these old get-by's too much, back in time these things weren't so highly valued and it's just a sign of being used for decades
Took hours in the stripper this one. Usually a couple of hours sees everything off, this was in for 9 hours!
The other thing was sorting the body pieces which had moved, seems it's not uncommon.
And the Strat, for pickup swaps to Oil Citys and refret in stainless 6000. Sounds great I think, and the middle Dimarzio hangs well with them too
I feel like it's all it can be now, also crazy kudos to @OilCityPickups the Blackbirds you sold me are amazing. Not only super focussed with gain, but also really nice clean sounds.
Walnut body, honduran mahogany neck, Mojo P90s
Also, as usual, wow awards to @monquixote for that strat - I love how that thing has aged, super cool.
It took a few colours to layer & blend to get it matching & hanging together right. Anyway, I kept the factory way of dealing with binding and left enough texture so it doesn't shout refin -
A 'before' pic, you can barely see the top shadows, they were very showy in person and the rusty streaks were stronger but hey
Some days you sacrifice just the right number of goats and the paint lays down pretty perfectly. This is gun finish, no sanding. Though being nitro it has settled and got a bit of texture after a few days.
Already seen but for completeness, the Esquire+ build
7lbs of fun.
One of Mr Mangler's headless herd.
Weapon 2:
Failed to get pics, there were some nice things and luckily those could be rescued, two were written off but one was easily replaceable and the second lower value. Main thing is our man escaped fine, unlike the neighbour who's house caught fire.
So I've stopped putting off renewing the fire extinguishers.
We have this -
Take the fretboard off, deploy bandsaw and chop off neck. Make new one, with rwu head this time. I do like how it sits with the FB body. Trap inlays for a change and my last piece of local 5,000 yr old bog oak.
It's in primer though was hoping to be further along by now.
A 70s Alembic for restoration. The pic doesn't show how dark it all is, the lacquer is very yellowed/browned. And dinks & dents all over including a couple of deep ones where something punched in hard.
The electrics were fun to fish out; 4-way selector, stereo XLR, mono 1/4", dummy coil. Three-way switches with vols and active q-filters, onboard preamp. Powered by a rack-size external power supply. Some pretty wacky construction and oddities everywhere.