Hetfield Uncle Milty (Iron Cross) Les Paul Custom Replica

[CascadiaGuitarGeek]

Thanks guys. It was a mess with all those sticky plastic bits but well worth the effort. Good luck Drummerdude with the clear coat.

[Kick]

Nice work CGG! The 'before' pics almost shocked me but luckily you also posted the 'after' pics

[Andy40]

Looks great! I know the paid of scraping the from to show the purfuling. Its hard and you've done a great job.

[Dedman]

"he has committed heinous crimes against society, take him to.......... THE SCRAPING ROOM!"
NOOOOOOoooooooo please your honour! Gimme the chair! Anything but the scraping room!


yup, done a bit of scraping :P

[stan]

The black looks great

[CascadiaGuitarGeek]

Thanks for the kind words everyone. Sounds like we could form a scraping support group here.

[Zandit75]

Thanks for the kind words everyone. Sounds like we could form a scraping support group here.

Yep, we meet twice a week, it's just down the hall, next to the Sanding support room!

[Drummerdude]

That is gonna look sweet Cascadia. I cannot wait to see this thing finished. I didn't mind scraping the binding on my tele build. I actually made my own scraper instead of a razor blade. I took a piece of flat metal bar and grinder it down share and counter ground the tip like I saw on a video from StewMac and they show how the Gibson people scrape bindings and it worked great. I just squeezed my fingers at the proper depth of the binding and moved fairly quickly and the tip being ground backwards kept it from digging on where the veneer meets the binding. That was the tricky parts on mine.

Looking awesome keep up the good work.

[CascadiaGuitarGeek]

Tonight I got the decals on the headstock (partially censored in photo). I dug out a bone nut from my collection to replace the stock black plastic nut as I think that is what is on Hetfield's original guitar. He may have changed it over the years though.

[wokkaboy]

nice looking headstock CGG, I assume you pixellated the bottom half the diamond shape too ?