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AHHH! WHERE'S MY NECK?!

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Oh - THERE it is... Whew!

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While I'm waiting for the stoopid Tru-Oil to dry on the neck (whass so goddam TRUE about it, mumble mumble), I COULD take the scalloped neck off of #1 Binky... Nah.

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What's this - a PHOTO OP?!? Count ME in....

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No, I'M not a ham.

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Wall as long as Bear ate the neck, I'm a-gonna eat the rest!

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If you said me about the gold hardware and that brown-perloid pickguard before show the picture I would say "hey, don't screw this thing, man", but man, that's awesome! :icon_biggrin:
The neck is Maple/Kingwood??

Congratulations!
 
I was looking at the Harley Aluminum Strats that Fender made from this run in 1993,

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and I liked the gold/silver, but at the same time the neck is wood - pau ferro board and maple that I tinted amber. So the Warmoth "brown shell" pickguard is to tie it together. There's a tendency on these things to put on another, shiny, aluminum pickguard -
HEY - Guess What? IT'S ALREADY SHINY, O.K.?

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At least it WAS shiny - just before I did the soldering of the doohicky into the hole I polished it up REAL, REAL, REAL good once with Mother's Mag Polish - then I touched it. Then I wiped off where I touched. Then I touched it again.... then I wiped it off. Then I touched it....  :guitaristgif:
 
NonsenseTele said:
If you said me about the gold hardware and that brown-perloid pickguard before show the picture I would say "hey, don't screw this thing, man", but man, that's awesome! :icon_biggrin:
The neck is Maple/Kingwood??

Congratulations!
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exactly how I felt!!!!  :laughing7:
 
Looking good there stub, but I'll have to say I'd go for the shinny PG, the brown looks good but I think shinny would look even better.... :icon_thumright:

Better keep a polishing cloth around too, that thing is a fingerprint magnet...
 
wow.  just wow.  I would love to have that guitar. 

Maybe we should raffle this one  :icon_biggrin:
 
That's awesome man, I was wondering if you were going to finish that one.  Your  cat seems cool, my cat reeeeeeaaallllly hates the camera.
 
I was reading "The Fender Book," and it said that Fender was experimenting with less expensive alternative materials, a' la Steinberger and Parker, because body and finish were the most expensive aspects of production.  Anywho, I don't know about the less expensive part, but thtat was the original reasoning behind the aluminum bodies of the 90s.  Had you heard that?  Had you heard otherwise?

Oh well, food for thought.  One hell of a build there.  What's your address, and when will you be gone?
 
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