5150 build.

[Budda]

Hope you made video of all this for more posterity!

 

[Andy Eagle]

Hope you made video of all this for more posterity!

nope

 

[Andy Eagle]

Trying to show the texture.

 

[Andy Eagle]

 

[Andy Eagle]

Close. Timeframe is different to this picture but I don’t have better pictures.

 

[connor66]

It's an absolute work of art Andy

 

[Budda]

incredible work, Andy. Be very proud of your efforts and documentation.

 

[Andy Eagle]

It's an absolute work of art Andy

Thanks.

 

[Andy Eagle]

incredible work, Andy. Be very proud of your efforts and documentation.

I did it to help anyone else make one if they wanted too. There is quite a lot of people out there doing it and hopefully this can save them a lot of time by not making the mistakes I made along the way . I think I am going to be happy to stop when this one is finished

 

[Andy Eagle]

A bit more progress in my down time;

 

[Andy Eagle]

Still can’t decide which neck plate, vintage but wrong Sn or pretty perfect repro;

 

[Andy Eagle]

The neck is also needing a decision;
The original has half scraped off finish from new but mine has been played for quite a while already before I decided to relic this one .

Mine is already discoloured naturally from my playing it for a few years.

 

[Rex]

Still can’t decide which neck plate, vintage but wrong Sn or pretty perfect repro;
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Something about forcing the serial number doesn’t sit well with me, though I can see how that might be an attractive choice. I’d go for the vintage plate.

 

[gitfruit]

B4129

 

[Andy Eagle]

B4129

Yes you see my dilemma. Original plate or original number?

 

[secondwindow]

I think I'd go with the B4129 you have. Aside from serial number, it just looks more "right" to my eye, even if it's not "authentic".

 

[Budda]

Vintage and that's the "andy factor" on it

 

[Andy Eagle]

Just got these in better resolution;




From the guitar world cover in 88 and the best part is no pick tape so you can see the full body. The down side is the parallax view but they are very helpful.

 

[Rex]

Just got these in better resolution;
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From the guitar world cover in 88 and the best part is no pick tape so you can see the full body. The down side is the parallax view but they are very helpful.

Looks like you’ve got another week’s worth of carving to replicate the damage under the pick tape. And you’ll have to hire three shifts of people to play the thing nonstop for ten years to replicate that nasty fingerboard.

 

[Andy Eagle]

Looks like you’ve got another week’s worth of carving to replicate the damage under the pick tape. And you’ll have to hire three shifts of people to play the thing nonstop for ten years to replacate that nasty fingerboard.

Yes for the tape (already started) . The fingerboard is mostly like it because it’s half scraped off lacquer on the clean bits.