Such a NICE body it is too - for $100, it was a bargain! Shapely and well cut, really nice wood - I like it a lot!
With my SFG '75 Duo Sonic, I wanted to go pretty much pristine, and that's pretty much what I got. Nice and level, did a ton of prep work on the semi-thrashed body, replaced most of the hardware with less "aged" looking vintage parts, etc. With my '71 Mustang, I went for a slightly more matte paint finish, but with some shine left on it - basically trying to make it look like the 39 year old guitar that it is, and not go too "new looking" with the paint.
This time, I decided I wanted to try my hand at doing a full on "relic". So with that in mind, I'm doing a few things differently. I'll go into the details a bit later, but I thought I'd start with some pics... each "layer" has a white primer coat between it... so we have clear shellac, then primer, then sea foam green then primer, then shell pink... with the hopes that as I ding and "wear" it, those other colors will show through too - kind of how it does with the bodies Fender painted over with a a new custom color on top of the previously painted body with a flaw in it...
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My birthday is at the end of the month, and I hope to have it all finished by then. We'll see - the lacquer may need more time than that to fully cure before I can do any checking / crazing on it...
Again, thanks to Richard / cooterfinger for an ace body and great transaction.
Or thrashed, depending on how you want to look at it. 
