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Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:15 pm**

i've been getting the itch to start putting a new guitar together. i've already made 2 teles, so i decided on a strat.

i picked up the body for $65:

it's a MIM body, poly finish....i've wanted to relic a guitar for a long time, and now seems like a good time to try.

so a package of sandpaper, a screwdriver, and a couple hours of hurling it across the park next my apartment on a rainy day resulted in this:

now i gotta buy everything else.

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:30 pm**

Check the clearance at GF.I picked up the reverse wounds for cheeps and they sound great. Clearance stuff

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2008 2:09 pm**

i wonder if you could fit mini switches or something in those little circles.

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2008 5:10 pm**

that would be pretty cool to stick some switches in there actually.....
i liked it when it looked new, and i liked the relic look, i still say you should have assembled it all, and then beat the hell out of it.

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2008 5:21 pm**

Nice relic work, it looks pretty authentic.

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:34 pm**

I just picked this up off the baze for cheeps

Not sure if I'll refin or just throw it together like this.
Yours should look cool,but personally I would have left the body the way it was.

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:37 pm**

bassintom wrote:Check the clearance at GF.I picked up the reverse wounds for cheeps and they sound great. Clearance stuff

wow, good prices...but i dunno if i'd rather have the vintage or overwound...which did you get?

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:40 pm**

I got the reverse wound.I wasn't sure what they would sound like but they're really nice.Well worth the $16.95 or whatever cheapness I paid.

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:44 pm**

bassintom wrote:I got the reverse wound.I wasn't sure what they would sound like but they're really nice.Well worth the $16.95 or whatever cheapness I paid.

well they have 2 kinds of reversed wound on the site now...a vintage set around 5.5-5.9 and an overwound set around 9.5-10

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:45 pm**

Sorry bout that.I got the overwound ones.

Posted: **Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:11 pm**

waiting on these to come in:

81 tokai neck with a V profile

this loaded body from dogma, that i'll use for donor parts:

and an aged mint guard:

Posted: **Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:17 am**

I heard about this from Mark. Lookers fantastic. I'ma definitely have to get a body and attempt to skateboard it on my driveway.

Posted: **Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:29 am**

ew

Posted: **Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:02 pm**

replacements for the plastic parts are still on the way...and the trem block is the wrong size.

Posted: **Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:05 pm**

oh man, with that mint guard it will look amazing!

Posted: **Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:49 pm**

The neck looks so nice in comparison.

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:32 pm**

looks great are you going to paint the headstock or leave it red?

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