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the forearm wear is comparable with many much more expensive relics which people lust after. It's okay if you don't like it, but I got what I was after
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How did you do the wear on the neck?
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There are many original guitars which have a bit of the belt sander look. If you look at vintage example of Pelham/lake placid blues you will see they are bluer in the high wear areas where the yellow clear coat wears away, they are sometimes patchy where the colour coat has worn, and sometimes show wood where all 3 layers have slowly worn. That's what I have gone for here.
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Now I am on a proper PC - here is an apparently all original 65 LPB finish. it has a good mixture or wear and tobacco staining. You can see the extra blueness near the contour wear through, you can see the patchiness of the white primer showing through in this area.
The wear in he cutaway looks totally fake and I would never copy it
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and a $4k custom shop recreation of a similar guitar
I have not copied specificc wear here, but I like to think of the way the wear will have been created when I am doing it
Apologies they are all Lake Placid and mine is Pelham - Its probably the closest old fender colour
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This is the mockup - pickup is one order (it won't be reliced as it may not stay in this guitar, I may build something new around it later). I purposely did a swimming pool route for maximum options on this guitar
the fretbaord wear is done with a little bit of paint stripper - the neck above was the first attempt with this technique and the patterns are not perfect. I used the same technique with a small artists brush to do the neck on the right here, a more subtle relic and i got a better tear drop shape. neck on the left is a custom shop one. The paint stripper is very fast but stays where you put it, thinners and a cotton bud will get you there slower on a nitro neck. I have done that way a few times but found it harder to control and see how far you have gone - thinners move fast!
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I have spent loads of time repairing fretboard divots or genuinely old guitars.... I can't bring myself to recreate them any deeper than the finish on new relics
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I decided to go with some chrome schaller locking tuners with staggered height posts. They are the cleanest looking most modern hardware on the guitar. They also happen to be about 15 years old. I think having the oldest part looking the newest suits this build. They have a bit of weight but are awesome tuners. But I think i still need a string tree for the B and E as the stagger is quite slight
Its still not wired or anything, but i have been playing it for the last few hours and it sounds very nice so far. Really nice bloom to the notes. The risk here is the presence of a neck pickup can change it all
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I ended up putting some wood back in the neck pickup route to give better support to the mojo. Basically I made a wooden mounting plate that is screwed in place and can be easily removed to make way for other pickup styles later. But I am happier with the way these pickups are working together now - they are very different, but sound great together.
The crazing on the thin finish has worked really well. The finish is a bit rough looking, being a bit uneven, sunken and crazed.... but i like it
The £4 torty plate is excellent now its gloss has been softened
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