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man you are getting really good at the aged daphne refins. If i get a musicmaster anytime soon can I send it to you?
this is panoramic btw, if you hadn't made note of that.

I'm not good enough to do finishing for anyone! OrangePeel like a mutha!

You can do it yourself - it really is easy. And rewarding. I promise.

well when and if i get to that point I will be hitting you up for pointers.

I'd be more than happy to share my limited knowledge!

My tips are mostly going to sound like:

"Oh, and be sure that you don't....."

I decided to go a bit over the top with the relic job on this guitar. I did some more rub through on the finish, full checking, made the existing dings a bit larger, and added a few scuffs and scrapes here and there. Again, the initial goal was a bit of a Frusciante "Under the Bridge" Jag - which is pretty close to what I ended up with. (I wasn't going for "replica" - just inspired by).

The Goal:





Finished:

Now that is so sweet. How long did it take you to finish it?

Start to finish, about a week.

I'm getting started on another project, which will be fun. '65 slab board MusicMaster neck, Warmoth Jag body, ReRanch orange finish, black guard w/ double black humbuckers, no upper controls, no lower switches, just a master volume, 3 way switch, and output jack on the lower plate. I'm just using up a bunch of parts I have lying around.

faux-fru-jag is teh shits.

nice one, dice.

yup, looks fantastic. good jorb.

The last few touches brought it together nicely. Good work.

Thanks fellas! I was worried about taking it "too far" - but am glad that I did the recent relic work.

Be prepared for another round of Dice's Super Amateur Build Threads to pop up next week! My neck arrived today (and it is fantastic! '65 MM neck w/ very strong freshly leveled frets, in great shape) and all of my guts are gathered. Just waiting on the body, guard, and hardware - as soon as the body lands, I'll get started...

is it me or is that rib contour deeeeeep?

Could just be the angle of the photo. I just pulled out my '65, and they look to be the same. I suppose that whenever this '63 body was stripped and/or sanded, it may have been a bit heavy in the cutaway (that was done before I got it).

When I was reading the test post about the relic'ing was I like "Oh Noes" but then I saw your final result and I think it's on the tasteful side, I think it looks good.

Thanks. I was pretty nervous about doing it. BUT, I hadn't filled any of the body dings before I did the finish, etc., so it did look a bit odd with the dips here and there.

My next project won't be relic'ed, and I'm somewhat nervous about trying to make it actually look good. This one had a bit a couple of runs which I basically cut off and replaced with a ding, stuff like that.

REALLY nice job on the finish

nice creation sir....wow

WAHT TEH FUCK?


one n00b revives it after a month.

then another n00b revives that one after another 2 months?


fuck these kids in the face dudes

after you guys look at this shit and reply to it, im going to erease the bullshit and put it back in the forum. because it actually is a quality thread

Just delete their posts in future. This thread belongs on the forum, not in here.