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I don’t keep mine behind glass, but I do hang them on the wall as functional art and for easy access when I want to play them.

Correct.

I loved and still love the color saturation it had when it was new, but it’s been played on hundreds of gigs and picked up its fair share of nicks and dings over the past 18 years. As cool as the original color is, I really dig the faded look too. Poly doesn’t wear away and relic like nitro...

Keeping it in its case will slow the change in color, but it happens so gradually that you don’t really notice it until you can see the comparison. Besides, I think it’s a shame to keep a gorgeous piece of wood hidden when it’s not in use.

Circa 2010, the first time I took the guard off:

I had to pay five bucks to access my old Photobucket account, but that was the only place I could find a copy of the pictures taken when it was brand new. Sorry for the small size/low res. The Photobucket photo was only 400x300 pixels, and the originals I posted to the old forum and the...

It's Warmoth's purple dye. I bought it as a Showcase body circa 2006.

I don’t tend to hop around a lot on guitars. I buy/assemble them with the exact specs that I want, then keep them forever, lol. Here’s another pic, all strung up in the morning light:

My 18 (almost 19) year-old Strat got some much needed TLC today with a shiny, new set of Graph Tech Ratio tuners. The Sperzels I originally installed were already 10 years old when I got them (new Sperzels were out of stock everywhere when I first put this build together), and the action had...

Can you no longer have S-S-S Strat bodies from the Showcase routed out for H-S-H configuration? I was perusing the Showcase after a long time away, and noticed it's no longer included in the drop down menus: If so, that's a damned shame. I always order my bodies H-S-H to give me options in...

I have been know to be crazy before!:LOL: Still, though, I'd 100% order a smaller Warhead headstock for a Tele build. The standard Warhead is too big and doesn't balance well, in my opinion.

It might have been a custom headstock a forum member made as a sort of Warhead-esque tribute for their Tele build, or I might be completely crazy. It had a more subdued curve to the bottom edge of the headstock, sort of like a Tele vs a Strat, but it still had the ditinctive hook at the end...

If I remember correctly, you used to be able to call and have any strat or CBS-style headstock cut down to a Warhead-style headstock. Is that still a thing? I also very vaguely remember seeing a post about a Tele/Warhead hybrid headstock that was made a bunch of years ago, but I've searched...

Hey Bagman.  It's good to be back.  I don't currently have any desire for another guitar build, but I've wanted a short-scale P-bass for the longest time.  Maybe sometime next year.  :-)

It's been a hot minute since I've been active on UW (my post history says December 22, 2013) and almost eight years since I first slapped it together, but I think I'm finally happy with my rosewood Tele Thinline.  She's much the same as she once was, except she's now wearing a new, custom-cut...