FINISHED-DONE FINALLY! EVH General Lee super strat

[DangerousR6]

The R6 needs some of the Warmoth neck stickers.

Only if they want to pay for advertising space..... :laughing7:

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

I'm 1/4 Japanese.
Closest thing to a tribal name would have to be...
Lewis. I'll change it to Screaming Sasquatch soon.

Already taken!  :icon_biggrin:

 

[theklanch]

Doug I never pegged you as a rocket guy.....  Oh well someday on that big old open road, go ahead and pass me at 117 on your back wheel!!!!  All of my buddies that ride those machines love that gag, my HD will pick up the front wheel with my 300# fat ass on it, but I can't ride a wheelie on it........That is a sweet bike though, bet it is faster than a slutty catholic school girl on prom night...

Mr Cooter......  Still gotta tell you how impressed I am with that paint job.  Keep smokin those mavericks and for goodness sake, if you are gonna roll your own, don't waste your time with bugler, go see your local deadhead and get something GOOD to roll up and smoke!!!!  You don't have to tell me about the price of cig's round here.  Camels and Marlboros are $4.50 a pack here in Penna.  I have a bunch of buddies that live in NC so when they come up and visit their parents and whathaveyou, I get them to pick me up a carton of smokes in Virginia.  Smokes are actually cheaper in Virginia than they are in North Carolina......  But anyway, if you are gonna roll em yourself, put some reefer in there...

Oh my indian name is "Chief big hair on face with peace pipe"  97% pure Fuqarwe tribe from the great land of many holes in road (somewhere between bumfuked Egypt and Timbucktu)  (seriously I'm actually a good old american mutt with slovenian-sicilian origins, no papers they got me at the pound, but I did have all my shots!!!  :toothy12: )

 

[DangerousR6]

Doug I never pegged you as a rocket guy.....  Oh well someday on that big old open road, go ahead and pass me at 117 on your back wheel!!!!  All of my buddies that ride those machines love that gag, my HD will pick up the front wheel with my 300# fat ass on it, but I can't ride a wheelie on it........That is a sweet bike though, bet it is faster than a slutty catholic school girl on prom night...

Yip, I'm a crotch rocket pilot..But I do also have a 2003 Bourget Low Blow choppa...... :icon_biggrin:

 

[dirtycooter]

Got nothin against bikes-I just don't feel comfortable on the road with the overpopulated crowded roads with crappy drivers around here and horrible cobble stone roads Michigan is known for. Down in Detroit there are pot holes big enough to swallow a Mac truck-seriously!
We got some serious state tax compared to some other states but it sure as hell don't go into our roads I can tell you that much!

Be careful on those bikes guys-just in the last 6 months we lost a really good or I should FANTASTIC man at work, another friend of a friend was killed, and another one lost his leg mid thigh. Easy to permanantly mess yourself up quick on those machines. Although I did take a nice Fatboy for a 40-50 mile ride in Texas this summer-great feeling, true sense of freedom with the wind in your face, but it was also on a long wide open straight road. Here in Michigan we have these things that like to jump out in front of you with no warning with four legs and multi point racks of horns. And they hide and lay in wait just to F your day up it seems.

Yeah-I got a bunch of indian sex stones in my yard.                Whole bunch of f-n rocks 

 

[DangerousR6]

Got nothin against bikes-I just don't feel comfortable on the road with the overpopulated crowded roads with crappy drivers around here and horrible cobble stone roads Michigan is known for. Down in Detroit there are pot holes big enough to swallow a Mac truck-seriously!
We got some serious state tax compared to some other states but it sure as hell don't go into our roads I can tell you that much!

Be careful on those bikes guys-just in the last 6 months we lost a really good or I should FANTASTIC man at work, another friend of a friend was killed, and another one lost his leg mid thigh. Easy to permanantly mess yourself up quick on those machines. Although I did take a nice Fatboy for a 40-50 mile ride in Texas this summer-great feeling, true sense of freedom with the wind in your face, but it was also on a long wide open straight road. Here in Michigan we have these things that like to jump out in front of you with no warning with four legs and multi point racks of horns. And they hide and lay in wait just to F your day up it seems.

Yeah-I got a bunch of indian sex stones in my yard.                Whole bunch of f-n rocks 

You got a point cooter, it's not me I'm worried about. it's all the other mindless cagers that are buzzing the streets not paying attention to what's around them. That is one good thing about Texas, lots-o-straight open road. But I like the curvy stuff, don't care for the 4 legged critters either, especially the ones with the horns. But we usually have to bo on the lookout for cows and horses more than deer.. :dontknow:

 

[Mor Paul]

Plenty of deer around here in NC, too.

 

[theklanch]

Top story on the news this morning was about a guy on a bike that lost control of it around a notoriously dangerous curve here and got killed.  It has been nice around here temperature wise, but PennDot uses gravel and salt to de-ice the roads and they wait till May to clean it up.  I followed a guy on a sportster on Christmas day it was cold but dry, I park mine around the end of October and don't usually get it out till the end of March.  It is still too cold that time of year to go very far without a big fairing and lowers.  And the deer do really scare the poop out of me.......  You gotta be careful that's all.  I really try to stay on my toes and I never ride buzzed at all, too much at stake to die cause I had one too many.  But anyway I never knew what the hype was all about when it comes to motorcycles, I was always a muscle car guy till I helped a good friend out with his inherited Softail and it was all over.  He needed some brake work done on it and for payment he let me borrow it one afternoon.  I rode the damn thing out of gas and the rest they say is history.  That was on a Wednesday, on Friday I was signing the papers for my bike.  I must say the weekend I had to wait till I could pick it up was more hell than the 5 weeks I have been waiting for my Warmoth guitar. 

 

[DangerousR6]

Top story on the news this morning was about a guy on a bike that lost control of it around a notoriously dangerous curve here and got killed.  It has been nice around here temperature wise, but PennDot uses gravel and salt to de-ice the roads and they wait till May to clean it up.  I followed a guy on a sportster on Christmas day it was cold but dry, I park mine around the end of October and don't usually get it out till the end of March.  It is still too cold that time of year to go very far without a big fairing and lowers.  And the deer do really scare the poop out of me.......  You gotta be careful that's all.  I really try to stay on my toes and I never ride buzzed at all, too much at stake to die cause I had one too many.  But anyway I never knew what the hype was all about when it comes to motorcycles, I was always a muscle car guy till I helped a good friend out with his inherited Softail and it was all over.  He needed some brake work done on it and for payment he let me borrow it one afternoon.  I rode the damn thing out of gas and the rest they say is history.  That was on a Wednesday, on Friday I was signing the papers for my bike.  I must say the weekend I had to wait till I could pick it up was more hell than the 5 weeks I have been waiting for my Warmoth guitar. 

Once you've been bitten, not much you can do about it. I got the bug when I was 15, my dad's been a rider all his life. And so passed it on to me, hell I got my motorcycle license before I got my car license, I couldn't survive without my bike. It would be like missing a limb...

Sorry cooter, we kinda highjacked your thread bro... :icon_biggrin: 

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

To bring this back around, Cooter needs to dress like Uncle Jesse when playing this.  To be clear, the Uncle Jesse from the "Dukes" not "Full House."

 

[dirtycooter]

No -by all means-  hi-jack away :laughing11:

Now that I am done with this one I have to contemplate my next project and its finish and body wood. Not sure what I will want to do yet.
Never had a clear wood grained finished guitar before. Yet I like the cool colors you can get with paint.

ideas :sign13:

Red and white super strat with snap-on tools logo and alder body-my buddy wants me to do this one since he owns enough tools from snap-on to buy 4 houses!

all black with real painted tri or quad colored hot rod flames done the real classic way

clear antique looking finish on a nice grained mahogany or korina

Mahogany body with flame or quilt top dyed-masked natural faux binding-clear tinted back

What to do ,  :icon_scratch:  what to do

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

swamp ash, grain enhanced, brown dye body, a matching wenge neck with ziricote fingerboard.

 

[theklanch]

all black with real painted tri or quad colored hot rod flames done the real classic way

clear antique looking finish on a nice grained mahogany or korina

Mahogany body with flame or quilt top dyed-masked natural faux binding-clear tinted back

What to do ,  :icon_scratch:   what to do

Hey cooter here is an idea for ya!!!  How about the hot rod flames done on a natural flame or quilt maple?  Instead of solid colors, you could use dye for your colors, going from something opaque to transparent tips to the natural body...... I have never seen anything like that before, I think it would be a work of art.  Do some old school pinstriping to separate the flames from the natural or something.  I don't know if you have thought of something along those lines or not, I actually just thought of it as I was reading your post I think that would look really good, and completely one of a kind, I have never seen anything like that......  Just my two cents Happy New Year and if you go out and celebrate tonight be careful it is the biggest ameteur night of the year!!!!

 

[dirtycooter]

"Just my two cents Happy New Year and if you go out and celebrate tonight be careful it is the biggest ameteur night of the year!!!!"


  :doh: :icon_thumright:

Well spoken-thats a knee slapper :laughing3:  But there is only one way to become a pro-thats through "practice" ccasion14:
I'll probably look like this at the end of the night since I am out of practice though :tard: :sad1:
And in the morning I'll do this when I can't figure out who I woke up next to for the first 20 minutes :icon_scratch:
And when I turn the lights on in the morning I'll do this ???
She'll either be good looking  :icon_biggrin: or so ugly it'd make a train take a dirt road ??? :sad1:-chances are 50/50 I figure :dontknow:
Maybe I should just take the old lady-she already has all my money so there really wouldn't be nothin to fear either way then. :laughing7: :laughing8: :icon_scratch:

Yeah that sounds cool doing one like that-crossing elegant with wild and crazy. I'd not only get practice doing a dyed top but the flame masking also.
Anybody here got a good idea on how to wrangle a decent quality low cost air brush????? Or any tips on using them?? I'd like to get into doing that too at some point-would make painting graphics alot easier.

 

[theklanch]

Cooter it is your lucky day man I have an airbrush...........

One of those little siphon types.  It is like a pencil with a little I don't know maybe 3-4oz glass paint cup.  I never put paint in it, when I brought it home I put a little thinner in it to see how it worked and it worked fine.  I was determined years ago to learn how to do old school flames cause my old buddy had a 50 chevy that he got for like $100 and we went to Carlisle (huge car parts show swap meet type thing) and got all these NOS parts and we spent a summer working on the car had it primed and had the interior all done waiting to install and his dad sold their house and they moved....... The car had to go and I never thought of painting flames again.  So man if you can put it to use or even to learn how to use one, by all means.....

PM me with your address if you want it you can have it....and about as low cost as you can get.  Ever been to a Dead show?  Well man here is your miracle.....no not a ticket to tonight's show (which by the way I just remembered Bobby Weir is playing RIGHT NOW!!!! 1 am here so yeah they are playin as I am typing)

Happy 09 and I sure hope you don't have to gnaw your arm off in the morning  ccasion14: :help:  :doh:

 

[DangerousR6]

swamp ash, grain enhanced, brown dye body, a matching wenge neck with ziricote fingerboard.

That would be a cool idea there Connor. But your wording is a little off, instead of " a matching wenge neck with ziricote fingerboard". It should be "complimented with a wenge neck with ziricote fingerboard".  :icon_biggrin:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

That would be a cool idea there Connor. But your wording is a little off, instead of " a matching wenge neck with ziricote fingerboard". It should be "complimented with a wenge neck with ziricote fingerboard".  :icon_biggrin:
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I thought the same thing about the use of the word "matching."  Oh well, it's a life lesson to pick your arguements and know what someone meant.