New Summer project..... PAISLEY STRAT

terada

Stunning.

Adam_MD

What pickups and trem did you fit Adrian? 

ThorpyFX

Adam_MD said:

What pickups and trem did you fit Adrian? 

It’s a set of bare knuckle mother’s milk pickups. The trem is a gotoh 510 unit fitted with KTS titanium saddles 

Adam_MD

ThorpyFX said:

Adam_MD said:

What pickups and trem did you fit Adrian? 

It’s a set of bare knuckle mother’s milk pickups. The trem is a gotoh 510 unit fitted with KTS titanium saddles 

Interesting I’ve been intrigued by titanium saddles for a while and bought a set for my current tele project.  I’m just waiting on the body and neck arriving from Scott so I can get on with it.  

lovestrat74

That looks incredible. Love the roasted maple neck with the gold paisley. Amazing looking beast!

merlin

Dibs! 

Schnozz

Gah...I wanted non-roasted maple and rosewood 

2nd dibs on the loaded body lol (before we even let the poor chap enjoy it)

Impressed you did all that in a day though!!

FelineGuitars

The neck was all refretted, fret dressed, earvana nut installed and set-up and ready to bolt on and go.

fretfinder

Beauty! What’s the weight, out of interest? 

DrBob

I must confess that when I saw the Gold vs the Pink edged Paisleys on Scott’s feed I wasn’t totally convinced but in context with the roasted maple neck it looks incredible. 
Nice build man 

ThorpyFX

FelineGuitars said:

The neck was all refretted, fret dressed, earvana nut installed and set-up and ready to bolt on and go.

yeah fettling was a massive understatement. re-carve, refinish, re-fret, new nut and sundry works to resolve a botched carving of a logo on my part

Its incredible now though.

Moominpapa

That is really gorgeous.

downbytheriver

Extraordinarily lovely object. Am I the only person wondering how hard it would have been to have aligned the scratchplate graphic with the body graphic? 

ChuckManual

Absolutely stunning.

Good work everyone!

ThorpyFX

downbytheriver said:

Extraordinarily lovely object. Am I the only person wondering how hard it would have been to have aligned the scratchplate graphic with the body graphic? 

It was considered..... however these sheets are only a certain size so you'd have to find one that lined up amongst the one chosen for the body. Then on top of that it may not have enough coverage for the scratch plate despite lining up...

and to be honest despite these difficulties it made more sense that they were mismatched... its too perfect if they line up 100% and actually its nigh on impossible to make it line up 100% so if it was 99% then it'd bug the crap out of me.....


best to be purposely mismatched.

downbytheriver

Fair enough! It is a truly fabulous thing either way. 

absolutpepper

@ThorpyFX I must say that looks stunning.  Makes me wonder if they would do me the same finish in a Jazzmaster body, which would pair nicely with an aged gold anodized guard

DrBob

absolutpepper said:

@ThorpyFX I must say that looks stunning.  Makes me wonder if they would do me the same finish in a Jazzmaster body, which would pair nicely with an aged gold anodized guard

I was having a verrrrry similar thought. Except with a paisley guard ! 

ThorpyFX

DrBob said:

absolutpepper said:

@ThorpyFX I must say that looks stunning.  Makes me wonder if they would do me the same finish in a Jazzmaster body, which would pair nicely with an aged gold anodized guard

I was having a verrrrry similar thought. Except with a paisley guard ! 

you both need to email him, his jobs list is just getting longer as more people realise how cool his work is.