The Norwegian Guy
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A couple of days ago, I was almost forced to sell my first warmoth, due to lack of money and a coupple of unpaid bills. My dad refused to let me sell the guitar, and told me he'd take care of my bills, if I paid him back when I got my next salary.
That made me think of a story my mom told me when I started playing guitar in 2004. She told me that in his younger days (before I was born), my dad used to have this black fender stratocaster. He loved that guitar. But when I was born in 1990, he had to sell the guitar to buy a car because the car he had earlier only had two seats. My mom said that selling the guitar almost killed him (not literaly, but you know what I mean). And he's been talking about the guitar ever since.
So what I'm planning to do, for his 50'th birthday, is to build a replica of that guitar out of warmoth parts. I have spoken to tonar, and he has given me many cool ideas. He's also finishing the body and neck for me.
This is what I planned it to be like, based on photos.
Alder body with tonar-black finish (nitro)
Quartersawn maple neck with indian rosewood fretboard tonar-vintage tint, and some cool decals.
Parchment pickguard (or I'll get an aged white one from ebay or something)
Lindy Fralin hot vintage set pickups
Vintage trem
Vintage tuners
I'm also thinking about asking DangerousR6 to make a custom neckplate that contains a horseshoe, because my dad own 5 race horses which he spends much time with. And the writing; A tribute to dad (above the horseshoe) and my name; Andreas Midtlyng (beneath the horseshoe)
This and two other builds starts in the beginning of july, because that's when I have the money to do it.
A great thanks to tonar, which is very dedicated and helpful, and Max, that came up with some cool ideas during the planning of this build.
Stay tuned!
That made me think of a story my mom told me when I started playing guitar in 2004. She told me that in his younger days (before I was born), my dad used to have this black fender stratocaster. He loved that guitar. But when I was born in 1990, he had to sell the guitar to buy a car because the car he had earlier only had two seats. My mom said that selling the guitar almost killed him (not literaly, but you know what I mean). And he's been talking about the guitar ever since.
So what I'm planning to do, for his 50'th birthday, is to build a replica of that guitar out of warmoth parts. I have spoken to tonar, and he has given me many cool ideas. He's also finishing the body and neck for me.
This is what I planned it to be like, based on photos.
Alder body with tonar-black finish (nitro)
Quartersawn maple neck with indian rosewood fretboard tonar-vintage tint, and some cool decals.
Parchment pickguard (or I'll get an aged white one from ebay or something)
Lindy Fralin hot vintage set pickups
Vintage trem
Vintage tuners
I'm also thinking about asking DangerousR6 to make a custom neckplate that contains a horseshoe, because my dad own 5 race horses which he spends much time with. And the writing; A tribute to dad (above the horseshoe) and my name; Andreas Midtlyng (beneath the horseshoe)
This and two other builds starts in the beginning of july, because that's when I have the money to do it.
A great thanks to tonar, which is very dedicated and helpful, and Max, that came up with some cool ideas during the planning of this build.
Stay tuned!
