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Me and Ms Crow managed to catch covid this week so work halted as I seem to have turned into a cat - brief bouts of activity followed by tremendous kipping. Back at it soon.
For completeness I'm putting this pic here, I knew Si and me liked it but was knocked out by the positive response on the guitar section thread - 60 wows.. amazing and cheered me up no end being generally wasted this last week.
Will be catching up on work in a few days & updating people as & when. Cheers till then.
Hope you get well soon…
Thanks for the stuff you’ve done this year and especially the Charvel refin - it’s a work of art!
If I don’t speak to you before have a fantastic New Year.
Si
It's got a Descendant trem which feels great, not so keen on the brushed finish but it's a very nice thing. Bridge from the same source too.
The upper rest bit is just screwed on, so the bottom bit could be made into a stash box I suppose, maybe for plectrums or other small bits the workshop monkeys like to move at night -
Well, because I can, and it's pretty, so why not!
SeriousQ - where do you get your decent thickness/quality cork from??
Sometimes I get the feeling people are maybe slightly embarrassed about bringing in lower-budget guitars, but they get the same care as anything else. Like an old cheapie Squier Strat came in, it was unplayable, ropey state and sounded ropey, but it was the guy's first guitar. It went out very usable with a fettle and new pickups, new electrics.
I'm probably not doing it right but sometimes I give small sneaky discounts or do extra bits without telling people, like this young girl with a guitar in a bad state from a previous setup. Or a young lad who'd saved two years to buy a Strat that had issues, taken it to a shop who did a really hideous setup on it, just unplayable. Other problems with it too.
They'll never know and it won't make any odds to me or them really but hopefully they get a guitar that gives 'em a chance to get going with instead of putting them off.
Anyway. Fair bit of paint in at the mo. We're possibly moving so I'm not taking in any more paint just now, until I can gauge what will definitely be done in time.
He's with me whenever possible, but is a bit of a slacker:
Blackest black I could muster. Here's a reflection -
And more pics -
I managed to lose some pics so this is the only one showing the colour it was wearing, the headstock paint isn't quite the right shape as it happens
It got stripped to bare wood. As ever the wood on these around this time is lovely top-quality stuff. The ebony fretboard is great, the neck is three-piece maple (extra strips making up the head). Light mahogany body.
After getting into a tinted primer stage, it got a refret in 6000s. The existing frets were about OK but worn and with limited life, makes sense to do this now
Yeah. Failure to spangle. I'll try again later.
We did have a Flatcoat before, he was a good boy.
Gibson-made from 1962. It's had a life, basically getting a restoration to state reflecting it's age; full strip & paint, fix what's needed, refret. I thought about doing a separate thread but think I'll do updates here.
It's some work alright with a few challenges but I'm liking it so far.
Among the issues -
Repaint that makes it look like a toy guitar
Tuner holes roughly chopped out to fit Schallers, headstock facing damage around the holes
Pickup cavities roughly chopped to fit PAFs at some point
Odd goings on with the side dots
Pickguard isn't original, it was sanded & painted white underneath. No idea what decade or model it's from, not any recentish reissue
There's nothing really tragically off, no neck or head breaks for instance. Was a time old guitars weren't worth much of anything so mods were common. Now everything seems to be 'original' and ones with DIY mods thin on the ground...