I must be mad!
Inspired by the St Vincent signature model, I have comissioned a body and will recycle a NOS Danelectro neck, 3 chrome covered P90's Dark blue metallic paint white plastics.....sort of what if Danelectro had made a St V signature guitar. The body should arrive on Tuesday, I have all the hardware and paint...neck is done.....maker of the body is called Dan, its a Danelectro neck, D logo'd tuners, so.....rude not to....
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Stranger from another planet welcome to our hole - Just strap on your guitar and we'll play some rock 'n' roll
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In the photos the body is not finished, pickup routs needed enlarging, final sanding, hole for electrosocket etc......
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But why is it always the last piece of the jigsaw that's missing?
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61134/sarge/p1
Pretty much finished mocking everything up, which highlighted a problem ,the neck pocket is too deep, entirely my fault as I totally forgot to tell the maker! So a Mahogany neck shim got made to sort the issue, it would be glued by now but the glue was frozen solid in the shed (!) and the local shop (for local people) was closed due to snow and ice........
Photos....
All mocked up, a lucky coincidence is that the edges of the Toronado bridge match the angle of the bevel on the body.....
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Neck shim
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It will hopefully disappear under primer and paint
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Neck on, not drilled yet, waiting for stainless cup washers
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Then the parts were assembled back onto the body and I used the "sewing room" which has a nice big table to asemble, got it all done slid the neck into the neck pocket, with no screws, temporarily, so I could measure nut to saddles and get the saddle positions somewhere near scale length.......I left it sitting on the table for a couple of days at work, no dramas...then I got flu, proper full blown, in bed for three days flu, three weeks later Im still coughing....anyroad at my lowest ebb, Ms nb57 asks me to move the guitar as she needs to sew.......after about the 10th time of asking, I grab the guitar by the neck (as you do) and watch as the body heads for the floor in slow motion, if you heard swearing and shouting in early March it was probably me......anyway the neck was fine.......the body however had a nice big chip and dent on the back of the bottom horn and a couple of paint scuffs, it all got set aside while I sulked and cursed my utter stupidity.
A couple of days ago I mixed a bit of car body filler for another job and made myself fill the chip and later sanded it back, along with a bit more filler, gently does it and a few light coats of paint and no-one would know, except you lot as I've grassed myself up!
It needs wiring up, a control cover making and the usual setting up, so its nearly there...wish me luck!
Ive done the standing in front of a mirror thing with it (silly old sod!) and it is surprisingly comfortable, anyway, photos...
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I like the design very much indeed - I suspect this is extremelycomfortable to play? - and the build and finishing is excellent. And no - noone would ever suspect there's a filled ding anywhere in the vicinity.
Apparently St V designed the body to accomodate the female form, particularly boobs, however it works particularly well on my gut too?