June 2013 GOTM Competition

[rhay]

Quote from AJ on May 24, 2013, 12:38
just awesome there Ray, well done. (now I gotta another one to add to my "to-List"..)

Cheers AJ. The finish on this one seems quite plain, compared to your LP.

If you are planning on doing a Deluxe then you might like to ask Adam about supplying a neck with a larger headstock blank. The only thing I wish this Tele had is a proper CBS sized headstock.

[rhay]

[quote]Quote from maxaxe on May 25, 2013, 18:19
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Ray's Tele TD has a wonderful older era look with that understated (Wudtone?) stain which enhances the grain very nicely. The aged neck/board compliments it ideally too IMO.

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Cheers Max,

I didn't think the aging detail came out in the pic (well spotted). There is age-wear on a few of the edges, but the new hardware and pristine scratchplate let it down - but they will age reasonably quickly.

The stain is actually a Cabots oil base, tinted their "Black" recipe (using Dulux tint). The neck uses a self-leveling Cedar/Cypress by Intergrain.

However I'm looking forward to trying some Wudtone, it looks like a great product.

[rhay]

[quote]Quote from stui on May 25, 2013, 21:17
Wow. That is one super cool SG. Can't believe you parted with it for under $500. <snip>

I agree with Stui; great work, really individual and (he's right)that collector got a bargain!

[tigertune]

Wow that is my kind of guitar!

[Gavin1393]

Flying 'V'
Carmine Gypsy with Gloss and Vintage Amber Neck
Removed plastic Nut and inserted BRASS!
Changed perfectly good Pickups supplied with 4 conductor wire version as the guitar features two PushPull Pots at the neck and bridge volume to acomodater the two coil splits.
Pickguard was pretty ordinary so I remodelled it as seen!
Headstock complete with logo and truss rod cover purposefully left off!

[Bass Guy]

Gav, that is practically porn.

[Gavin1393]

IB-1 in Hot Auburn with Gloss, Neck in Vintage Amber
Features Coil split on both Humbuckers and the Single Coil was hand wound by me.
Upgraded the black Floyd Rosd to a genuine immitation gold Floyd Rose! Wanted the bling on this guitar!
Added two mini switches so that I could manually control the coil splits of both humbuckers as well as to be able to control both humbuckers with the second switch.

[dingobass]

Very Noice!

The V is sensational and the IB is just plain tasty!

Glad to see you putting your logo on 8-)

[adam]

Gav, these two are just sensational.

[Gavin1393]

LP-1
Black Magic Woman burst with some StewMac Black for the borders. Clear Neck.
Started off as a minor catastophe! Redid the binding and started the sanding and painting from scratch. All those tricks about removing glue originated fromthis guitar. The neck was a shocker and Adam kindly arranged a new neck for me. The end result is this black beauty! Coil splits on both neck and bridge activated by PushPull pots. I eventually bought 4 conductor wire pickups after mutilating the pickups I had intended putting into this guitar!