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I ended up going with Zip-Strip in a spray can. I wanted to buy aircraft stripper, but this was the closest thing I could find while shopping at 2 AM. I think it will work, though.

I hope to have this stripped today so I can start aging this by a few hundred years. I am very excited to start painting this. I think it will end up looking a lot like the Jagmaster's paint, but with a bit of green since I like the existing green so much (sort of a tribute to it's soon to be former paint).

Who knows what will actually happen when the Bob Ross knives are out of the cabinet.

might be worth making a new thread for it once you start rather than it being tacked on here.

Will do.

I finally decided to add a volume control to the copper/ostrich guitar; which means that I had to make a control knob!



Wooden inner, ostrich side with copper indicator; and a copper top.

I reconfigured the electronics as well. The pickup configuration is now two GFS hot rails, with a mystery GFS humbucker (leftover from a GFS SG kit) sandwiched in the middle, with kill switches for all three and a master volume. The humbucker is very powerful... I was surprised. The proximity/booster unit has also been removed. I was having too many noise issues with it. I have decided to just turn it into a pedal and make some sort of copper sculpture for the enclosure.

Given I am a little late in the game I just wanted to share a comment or so.

I checked out your site and you have done some really amazing things, both guitar and non guitar oriented.

Although I would never really choose any of them to play myself, the guitars look great. I really dug how you actually had a theme and went with it. Its a lot more interesting than the usual color scheme / component selection way of thinking. Even if your stuff isn't my thing, I think it has influenced me at least a little.

Also, I must say I really dig the headstock graphics you have done. I have been working towards gathering things for a 60's japanese knockoff style jazzmaster. (dark crummy heavy looking wood, lots of metal plates and interesting switches) and I have been stuck on trying to imagine what the headstock should look like. It serves a a great basis to brainstorm off of.

Keep it up!

Thanks!

I would be interested in seeing what you are working on. Do you have photos?

Oh don't let my post fool you its nothing overly exciting. The project has hit a bit of a standstill as the person that was going to build the body for me is now unable to. Now its time to track down a nice dark wood and then continue! Ill also need someone handy with building pickguards!

The most work I've done on my own was a simple lap steel from scratch, but unfortunately I don't have access to a woodshop anymore.

What I am planning on doing is building up a jazzmaster body in a pretty conventional manner, just add details that one would usually expect out of old teisco type things. I was thinking a dark walnut wood color with a black pickguard. Heavy clearcoat finish. I have a neck from a bullet strat that I may modify a little, but really I think even a standard strat headstock will help it look extra knockoffish. I plan on stripping off the finish and sticker and doing a matching stain, with a circular logo on the round part of the headstock instead. Much like you were doing on yours.

The plan is to make the volume plate a jaguar style metal plate, and then either use the on off switch plate from a jag as well, or perhaps a couple of those huge rocker switches that you see on older guitars. I also may try and do the strange old teisco stripey metal detailing to those and the trem.

I picked up a couple of chrome rickenbacker pickups, I have always dug the tone and really the idea of a high quality 60s looking chrome pickup makes a ton of sense.

Basically it will hopefully look like a weird japanese ripoff jazzmaster, but play like an actual good guitar. No steel reinforced necks!

in case my explanation was horrible. toggle switches and metal plates like this!

Sounds interesting. Be sure to post it here!

All in good time good sir. Right now its a waiting game until I reach 50 posts here or offset in order to purchase a body off someone! Call me crazy but I cant justify one online until I see what is out there in the forums!

After that, I am slowly accumulating the parts I need so its going to be quick. Gosh, I miss having access to a workshop.

Do you have any other projects in the works?

Nothing very interesting, or at least guitar related. I have some new guitar designs in mind, but I don't think I will be able to build them anytime soon. Right now I am just refinishing an older Epiphone Les Paul for a customer.

This is a weird little number you could pick up for cheap. May take a router, or some surface pups.
Marco, I just painted a Jaguar with Telecaster copper. It's a bit of a sparkle poo color. Not for everyone.

Bobcat

A lot of fun things could be done with that.

Thanks for the tip, I will have to keep an eye on that one!

I really wish the rout was just a little smaller, it goes so far back on the body!

whack some filler in it. it looks like it wants refinishing anyway.

looks like he has more than just the body! gosh I hate ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1965-Harmony-Bobcat ... 483a7941df - loaded pickguard.

The neck is also up there.