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It's a GSP body & neck. The body was B-stock I guess, needed a few corrections. Modded the heel for the recessed curved plate. Ferrule block added.
De-chromed & aged hardware. BKP Mule and Creamery P90, with a nickel-silver cover added. Lightly 'potted' to the pickup against squeal. One-off pickguard.
The neck's got a couple of light shellac coats on so it feels natural but has some protection, and the grain & colour is enhanced.
It sounds great and I get it to play it a while longer
The neck's bare ebony except for the head face that had to be levelled to take the decal, I tried to match the sheen to the back of the neck, not that you can see that..
Nitro gloss burst with partial grainfilling so some texture starts to show through. Trick is to have it flat enough to not fill grain pores with buffing compound which won't fish out, and know that over a little time it will sink and allow texture
It looks shiny here but it is pretty thin with grain texture, and will thin out/sink more in time as well -
It has made me consider selling everything else, I am truly smitten.
Only change is the pickups, it is now a true Esquire with Eldred…
Yup - it was with me at practice last night again - loving it so far! Beautiful solid Ebony neck and ash body from @GSPBASSES, all put together by Bill @Corvus so my shoddy woodworking is nowhere near anything that nice.
Check out that neck:
Sounds brilliant, the staple P90 and coil split Lawrence humbucker is particularly amazing!
Before
After
This was black with faux binding and a hard/sharp corner on the top body edges. That was duly rounded over to match the back.
The neck made satin, and the dodgy barrel jack consigned to history in favour of a Switchcraft jack socket & plate.
Painted vintage/off-white nitro. I cannot get colours to come out right.. drives me potty. It's a light cream/yellow kind of shade, not like the pic unfortunately.
Paul's (or Mrs tPD's) parts bass. Nice finish Paul did and sounds really good too. Wiring tidy-up for the Bartolini active, setup tweaks, board darkening
Si's super nice Hamer -
Luke's Strat in for HSS and a new neck
Not keen on having to dig in but it is a hell of a lot cheaper than getting someone to do it. Should be good for another 16 years now.
A couple of planes scored at a local boot sale for cheap. Spend an hour or two stripping, de-rusting and cleaning them, flatting the soles and sorting out the irons. The WS with the bronze cap iron is from pre-1953, the company closed then. Both been pressed into service and working well. Little Stanley seems to be pre-60 or so.