conversion
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rockerbilly58
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Wow ! That's one great transformation right there.
Col Mustard
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tell us about this interesting control layout
dbb
Well-Known Member
Other than the lack of neck binding and headstock inlay, you could have fooled me - nice work.
! I can say no more, well beautiful comes to mind too! 
Mr. Happy
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Outstanig job!!
Looks just great.
Looks just great.
jeremy
Active Member
Looks awesome! Done a great job
sneakerpimp
Member
[email protected] beautiful!
Thanks guys... it's taken most of the summer. It did start as a 2007-8 three pickup batwing faded special. Here is the drawing showing the changes to the wood work:
And the wood work itself:
The painting was difficult, my first paint project. The forum at reranch.com was very helpful, but I still spent a fortune in paint and ended up sanding it back down to primer twice. Still not totally happy with the pelham blue flake, but it will work... the clear coast went fine. A buffing pad kit from stew mac along with a lot of patience made the polishing process work well...
The controls are a 6/2 rotary which gives the same combinations of a strat, but also a neck/bridge configuration. The switch is splits the mid pickup for a single coil tone.
I do wish it had the bound neck... but it feels and plays great. I'm going to replace the pickup and guard screw with black... it's a tad too blingy for me... but love the blue with the black plastic.
In the next week I'll do a fret level and dressing... and then it will be complete.
And the wood work itself:
The painting was difficult, my first paint project. The forum at reranch.com was very helpful, but I still spent a fortune in paint and ended up sanding it back down to primer twice. Still not totally happy with the pelham blue flake, but it will work... the clear coast went fine. A buffing pad kit from stew mac along with a lot of patience made the polishing process work well...
The controls are a 6/2 rotary which gives the same combinations of a strat, but also a neck/bridge configuration. The switch is splits the mid pickup for a single coil tone.
I do wish it had the bound neck... but it feels and plays great. I'm going to replace the pickup and guard screw with black... it's a tad too blingy for me... but love the blue with the black plastic.
In the next week I'll do a fret level and dressing... and then it will be complete.
sgtbeefheart
Well-Known Member
Nice work.
I agree about the screws, something I've never liked on the
3 pup customs, too many screws, and black will make a difference.
I agree about the screws, something I've never liked on the
3 pup customs, too many screws, and black will make a difference.
lollar low winds in the neck and bridge with a dimarzio super distortion in the middle (actually a dual sound - same thing but with split coil option).
dbb
Well-Known Member
That's what matters. The rest is cosmetic.
sneakerpimp
Member
looks nice.
the pickguard screws still look huge, are they countersunk?
it's ok to leave the adjustment screws chrome imo.
the pickguard screws still look huge, are they countersunk?
it's ok to leave the adjustment screws chrome imo.
thanks.
yah... much smaller and the white layer would show.
agreed, but once I went with the black ones... I'm not going back.
