Recent content by Hodgo

Thats SUPER cool!

What an interesting fretboard. Good luck with your sale

lol I’d love to be a one man polka band but more like this (aspirationally)

Been thinking about getting back into gigging solo and wanted to incorporate some foot percussion - maybe a tambourine or hi hat, some form of kick and optionally a snare. But most important is the kick and a cymbal of some sort. Any suggestions?

Aren’t you up here in the PNW with me? If so it’s not the shipping, it’s that I don’t wanna But big shout out to Marty - all I did was ship him the lightest body Warmoth had in the showcase. It got to him a few days later and he had it in the mail a week after that. Not cheap, but WOW is it...

Oh, I know. And then it’s cutting the pickguard - I already snapped one blank - and drilling the grounding hole for the tailpiece cause the bridge has nylon saddles… not to mention I still gotta do all that soldering… excuses excuses I am aware.

Paraphrasing the great Al Borland here… I don’t think so, Spud.

These threads sometimes feel like an intervention 😉 but here we go: The “Hendrix Alternate Universe” The Chartreuse Flake Esquire (Marty Bell finish) The still unfinished Steve Morse Frankentele/EBMM Mashup… I really need to finish this but I’ve kind of lost all passion for the project...

I decided to go with a deal on a new in box Mastery bridge and trem. Although I like the appearance of the Staytrem more I am thinking of a slightly flatter radius (10 or 12) for the fretboard. Just need some pickups, a wiring setup, and a neck.

Got me a nice anodized pickguard from Herad guitars. I am thinking of spraying a few coats of clear nitro to make this more vintage accurate, maybe a quick coat of shellac first to help it bind.

Sold - 3.5lbs with a charming little knot. Thanks for the heads up!

Ive decided on Sherwood Green metallic. Found a body over at Bloomdoom - 3lbs 10oz of alder! So next question is: trem and bridge. Mastery certainly gets a lot of praise, as does Staytrem. Seems like Mastery is the choice of bridge, but trem doesn’t seem to be as big of a deal. I was thinking...

Get a room you two

That’s one of those “$200 for the supplies, $1800 for the expertise” type of quotes.

Yknow in the early 60s Fender experimented with some mahogany bodied, transparent red guitars. That might be a fun “Time Machine” project