Andy Eagle
Fractal Fanatic
I will post the finished guitar when I get the other pieces.
Agree, and it also shouldn't look like somebody took a belt sander to a freshly store-bought new guitar. Some of the relic work I've seen even on for instance Suhrs, I've literally never seen that kind of wear in real life, don't know how it could happen without that belt sander.I think the biggest part of a relic job is not the dings, chips and wear, it's actually getting the context for them to look right. Not like your four year old got hold of a brand new strat.
Thanks.It turned out great. You do very nice work.
This came up in my 5150 build thread as I am up to the relic element of the build. I also have a 61 strat replica on the go that this will come up as well but as I am waiting for the necks to finish both builds I though I could use this.
This is a maple Allparts neck and a UK Guitar Build swamp ash 50s two piece body. The customer wants a moderate relic nitro two tone sunburst early 50s style and a reasonably aged maple neck fitted out with 54/5 appointments.
The body is very nice as UK guitar build bodies usually are. I.7Kg off centre joined two piece made to fit USA imperial measurement parts perfectly. I find these to be the most accurate vintage speck bodies you can buy. The contours are fairly middle of the pile in depth and style for this era so that is OK for this build but you could always cut them deeper at this stage.View attachment 88891
Yes it's quite a few coats to get the look, this is about 5, three different tints and clear. it's still pretty thin compared to fender reissues.Excellent work, as usual!!
I stripped a MIM Strat neck a couple years ago and used a can of tinted nitro from Re-Ranch to finish it with, it definitely nailed the tint but I’m assuming I needed to add more layers because it doesn’t have that glassy look to it.
Man, I’m kind of wishing I had you build my Gilmour CAR Strat instead of MJT!!
Their bodies are excellent, very accurate shapes and a perfect fit with USA fender parts. For a replica or even a clone they are as good as you can get. Necks are a work in progress IMO at the moment.GuitarBuild is about a mile or so from my house
Was quite amused when I found out as Lincolnshire is hardly the centre of musical excellence