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I'm doing a bunch of work on this thing now. refinishing it in fiesta red nitro. and I might be doing a couple pickup swaps slightly influenced by this....

...progress so far:

Wait.. this was a Joe STrummer tele and you stripped it?

nah, when I got it, it was that yellow color. the other guys who had it before me liked it I guess, I thought it looked awful. looked like it had been painted with a brush, and with like yellow artists paint.

so I was thinking something like theeessss......





but I decided fuck that noise, I'm going with something more this styley



except I'm doing an open cream bucker in the bridge and a cream duo sonic pickup in the neck.

I know you guys are all doubting me/cursing me now, but trust me it will look ill. you'll see.

I gots da pickup.



hey guys, will this give me teh bl00z t0nez? yeah, I know stupid name but it is essentially a P90 voiced humbucker. it's actually a really far out design, only one of the coils is "hot" as they describe it so it somehow works more like a single coil than a humbucker. but it is fully hum canceling just like a real humbucker. huh. go figure.

No hate here Mages, I realllly like where you're going with this.

i think this will turn out neat, as long as it's not all relic'd to hell, haha.
that pick up sounds pretty interesting.

at first I was thinking of relicing it just to match the rest of the strummer hardware but now I think I will just leave it and let it wear as it would normally. also I attempted to clean up and un-relic the rest of the parts as much as possible. I'll post later with some before and after pics of that.

What timescale are you setting yourself? Looking forward to seeing the end result

I think that neck with an unrelic'd body would be weird.


the neck on that guitar is delicious.

This looks awesome! Can't wait to see your progress.

great project, and sweet willys. that your pop's?

hotrodperlmutter wrote:sweet willys. that your pop's?

lol

the fuck's so funny about that? oh, wait. you're fucking stoned again aren't you, underscore?

got a case of the giggles, eh?

It will get relixd soon enough. I approve of this message.

paul_ wrote:

hotrodperlmutter wrote:sweet willys. that your pop's?

lol

More anglocentric lolz from me too.

yes, that's my dad's willys. it's a very rough and tumble vehicle.

OH HOW FUNNY, etc.

quick mock-up type thing



body is not sanded or clear coated here. also, weird lighting I think.

pretty pretty pretty