Quick & dirty Esquire

Corvus

A quick 'n dirty side project here - I'm sending an Esquire in kit form up to my boy, something for him to do and his birthday's coming up and we can't see him.

He likes beaten up stuff so that helped.. not happy with the body but it's not the slightest attempt to be hyper-real let alone take time & care, a starting point at least for him - he likes to stick all sorts of odds & ends to his built guitars. This is his, cost £70 all in, rough as it looks he's gigged and studio recorded with it.
The bridge pickup btw is a GFS "P90" which sounded shit and nothing like a P90, mainly because taking the cover off showed a Strat coil on a wide baseplate. It's now got a great hard clangy brassy sound.

http://www.corvusguitarworks.com/images/esquire_n/n_red_strat.jpg

Corvus

I had a neck lying around for years from can't remember what, and had bought a cheapo new body to test a new binding setup and some products out on. I'd already double-bound it and slapped grainfill and other products & ideas on it. The neck needed the heel thickness shaving by 2.5mm and the transition reshaping, was way too forward. Also profiled to 12", dots re-done, refretted in stainless. I was going to give this to him anyway so this stuff was already done, but it was bare. It's got quite a nice fullish profile.

So I got him the hardware from @gavin_axecaster (cheers), and a cheap A5 pickup.

Day 1 was paint, body in black back/sides and gold top with bronze & copper powder and some quickie fake greening. Paint neck

Day 2 beat stuff up

Day 3 hardware day, all new chrome so attacked that and faked up a p/g

Day 4, age the stuff I forgot before and drill neck & fit parts etc

Corvus

The nitro's too fresh too surrender to the freezer for checking up so it'll have to do.
As it's built from parts I'm not sticking my logo anywhere, though I like something on the head, he likes the parts blank look so all good.

All up weight is 5.4lbs.

PIccy dump

http://www.corvusguitarworks.com/images/esquire_n/head5.jpg
http://www.corvusguitarworks.com/images/esquire_n/head2.jpg
http://www.corvusguitarworks.com/images/esquire_n/head3.jpg
http://www.corvusguitarworks.com/images/esquire_n/detail2.jpg
http://www.corvusguitarworks.com/images/esquire_n/spangle.jpg
http://www.corvusguitarworks.com/images/esquire_n/2.jpg

hoops

Love that - he's a lucky boy!

skippy76

Looks spot on mate  

Ageing on the hardware looks good.

Corvus

Thanks very much , cheers : )

BigMonka

Love it!

MattNovak

Looks great Bill. I like the Easter Island head in your garden too  

Corvus

Cheers chaps. Matt thats Big Ed, Little Ed's also there somewhere swamped by that yellow stuff