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I ended up with a Squier Master Series Thinline Tele from eBay (uk) for ~ £140 some months back.. nice guitar a bit 335 but nothing special...



It then got attacked and now looks like...







KA P90, DiMarzio D-Sonic, 3-way toggle for the D-Sonic's coil tapping (front, HB, rear), Sperzel Locking Tuners, big-assed bridge, straplocks...

worst part of the whole project was the finishing. After stripping the original finish off, the back and sides were stained with (wait for it) brown leather polish. works amazingly well to give a fake rosewood finish.. covered in lots of spray lacquer and then sanded with 400-1600 grade wet/dry, followed by polishing compound. the top and headstock were going to be chrome sprayed, but failed miserably with paint peeling, bubbling and everything else under the sun. I eventually resorted to spraying it black.. which then just looked disgusting.. so figured it couldn't look any worse if I dusted the top with gunmetal spray paint.. which seems to have turned out okay after all.. the weird patches where more spray has been applied kind of add to the effect don't ya think?

admittedly, yes it's a rubbish paint job. it sounds great though - the larger bridge improved sustain no end, whilst the p90 sings. the dimarzio is also a great pickup, though i'm tempted to turn it around and drop the tuning down to C...

worst part is that i don't use the guitar either on preference of strat/jag/mustang for everything.. so if you suddenly see it on ebay or parted out don't be too surprised...


thoughts/comments welcome

Seems like alot of work for it to look messed up.

It's horrid.

jcyphe wrote:Seems like alot of work for it to look messed up.

to be honest, it was never meant to look messed up, and did take far to long to get to this point... some people have played it and thing the industrial look works, whilst others have just claimed

Mike wrote:It's horrid.

the body itself is in fine shape and would just need stripping back if i were to refinish it again, though my preference at the moment is to put it down as a learning experience and sell the parts off...

I never thuoght I'd say this but you should just gary that shit up.

Not my style, but looks better than it did, I'd say.

Ok then don't gary it

Mike wrote:Ok then don't gary it

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what did gary do? only been here a couple of weeks..

Bellamy'ed

benwalker wrote:

Mike wrote:Ok then don't gary it

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what did gary do? only been here a couple of weeks..

Dude likes throwing shit out of windows. Like cats and guitars. Though I do believe he never threw a cat out of a window.

euan wrote:

benwalker wrote:

Mike wrote:Ok then don't gary it

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what did gary do? only been here a couple of weeks..

Dude likes throwing shit out of windows. Like cats and guitars. Though I do believe he never threw a cat out of a window.

nice suppose he could throw a cat if there was a piece of toast strapped to its back..



bellamying it in the sense that it has a fake metallic paint job, p90 and a humbucker in the bridge (did think about a motherbucker but figured that would be fanboying it...)... incidentally off to see them tomorrow (whoop)...

nah. i think parts. i need a tent for glasto and money for beer...

i think it looks really cool - infinitely better than before.

i'd play that for sure.

benwalker wrote:nice suppose he could throw a cat if there was a piece of toast strapped to its back..

That won't work. If a cat always lands on it's feet, then it'll land on it's feet with a piece of toast on top of it.

You need to make cat shoes with buttered toast soles (butter on the inside of course). That way the cat will fall, the toast will react because it is going to land with the butterside not on the floor. The toast will then flip, directing the cat to land on its back. This will in turn trigger the cat's reflexes to redirect it's feet for proper landing positioning. The toast again to fall butterside up (despite the butter actually being inside the cat shoes), and the cycle will continue.

mezzio13 wrote:That won't work. If a cat always lands on it's feet, then it'll land on it's feet with a piece of toast on top of it.

hmm.. kitten sized shoes made of buttered toast.. now there's an idea...

mezzio13 wrote:

benwalker wrote:nice suppose he could throw a cat if there was a piece of toast strapped to its back..

That won't work. If a cat always lands on it's feet, then it'll land on it's feet with a piece of toast on top of it.

You need to make cat shoes with buttered toast soles (butter on the inside of course). That way the cat will fall, the toast will react because it is going to land with the butterside not on the floor. The toast will then flip, directing the cat to land on its back. This will in turn trigger the cat's reflexes to redirect it's feet for proper landing positioning. The toast again to fall butterside up (despite the butter actually being inside the cat shoes), and the cycle will continue.

dude the toast on its back would be butter side up, so it would be wanting to land butter side down, I guess technically its not landing if its tied to the cats back, but I prefer the image of the car with the giant piece of toast

But what if the treadmill...

then your head asplode.

i liked natural tbh.

Mark wrote:i liked natural tbh.

Natural toast?