Fender Cyclone Mod/Project

Painting? Routing? Set-up tips? Or just straight-up making a guitar from scratch? Post here, and post pics!

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Looks great, but personally I don't like the choice of sticker for the initials. Totally spoils it for me.
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Looks and sounds great. Very nice pickups. I think the initials look good although I may have opted for black with gold/silver lettering for a bit of contrast.
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Hate the stickers, love everything else.
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rps-10 wrote:Looks great, but personally I don't like the choice of sticker for the initials. Totally spoils it for me.
Cool. I put them on the pickguard so if I ever decided they were bugging me, I could just peel them back off instead of on the body. :)
George wrote:Looks and sounds great. Very nice pickups. I think the initials look good although I may have opted for black with gold/silver lettering for a bit of contrast.
The pickups are cool. I was curious on how they would sound wired this way. They still sound stratty even with the 500k pots. I like the setting with all three on. I could always try different stickers later if I felt the urge. :) I just happened to have these guys in my parts bin. :)
NickD wrote:Hate the stickers, love everything else.
Thanks! At least the stickers are easy to remove if I ended up feeling the same way. :)

Oh something funny I forgot to mention. Because I removed the two layers of lamination from the front and back of the body, the bridge sits slightly lower (not a big deal, it has ungodly perfect low clean action) and the block sits lower. Because of that, with the springs on, I can't put the cover on the back because it doesn't sit flush in the body. LOL I guess this one is keeping it's back cover off.
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This is quite possible the most beautiful thing I've seen. I'm not so keen on the final outcome.

At the same time I have to admire the way you've made something totally precious, and then twisted it, like God.

I salute your skills and vision.
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Post by HNB »

Thanks! I knew not everyone would like the relic'ed ending, but I wanted to give relic'ing a try and it is very comfortable and I like the look. :) Also makes me less nervous when I play with it and bump it. :)