Fat Pete
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...then you'll all hate it!
Cheating a bit here as the body has been out of its box for a while but the neck has only just arrived.
Showcase body - chambered swamp ash on swamp ash, all 3 contours, sonic blue with natural masked binding. A bit of an impulse buy, though I'd been suffering from bad GAS for a solid colour/masked binding body since seeing some very nice examples here - and sonic blue is a long-time favourite of mine.
I wasn't sure what sort of neck it was going to get, but when it actually arrived I realized that I had to do this:
Custom order neck - maple/indian rosewood (dark) 1 5/8, 24 3/4 conversion, Clapton contour, 6130 frets (would have gone for ss if they did this size) graphtech nut, pearloid blocks. Oh, and yes it is finished in sonic blue - yes, all over (apart from the fretboard as Spike pointed out when I ordered it. He was genuinely surprised - maybe horrified - when I specced the finish - probably not something that happens very often).
This one is inheriting some parts from a now abandoned thinline project - hence the hybrid guard. Pickups are a somewhat unusual pair from Catswhisker, a British hand-maker - more on these when it's been put together.
All nickel hardware - including (vintage-looking) Gotoh height-adjustable-post, magnum-locking tuners which look to be fiddly little suckers to set up and I'm not 100% convinced by the self/auto-locking idea but the quality looks and feels good so I'll give them a try.
Nobody in the UK seems to have nickel neckplates though so I might have to settle for a little chrome round the back or else get in touch with DangerousR6 to see if he can do anything with my logo in nickel. Am I obsessing over unimportant details here? No need to answer that.
Next appearance hopefully in the gallery section alongside all the other painted neck and block marker beauties - the new trend starts here.
Cheating a bit here as the body has been out of its box for a while but the neck has only just arrived.
Showcase body - chambered swamp ash on swamp ash, all 3 contours, sonic blue with natural masked binding. A bit of an impulse buy, though I'd been suffering from bad GAS for a solid colour/masked binding body since seeing some very nice examples here - and sonic blue is a long-time favourite of mine.
I wasn't sure what sort of neck it was going to get, but when it actually arrived I realized that I had to do this:
Custom order neck - maple/indian rosewood (dark) 1 5/8, 24 3/4 conversion, Clapton contour, 6130 frets (would have gone for ss if they did this size) graphtech nut, pearloid blocks. Oh, and yes it is finished in sonic blue - yes, all over (apart from the fretboard as Spike pointed out when I ordered it. He was genuinely surprised - maybe horrified - when I specced the finish - probably not something that happens very often).
This one is inheriting some parts from a now abandoned thinline project - hence the hybrid guard. Pickups are a somewhat unusual pair from Catswhisker, a British hand-maker - more on these when it's been put together.
All nickel hardware - including (vintage-looking) Gotoh height-adjustable-post, magnum-locking tuners which look to be fiddly little suckers to set up and I'm not 100% convinced by the self/auto-locking idea but the quality looks and feels good so I'll give them a try.
Nobody in the UK seems to have nickel neckplates though so I might have to settle for a little chrome round the back or else get in touch with DangerousR6 to see if he can do anything with my logo in nickel. Am I obsessing over unimportant details here? No need to answer that.
Next appearance hopefully in the gallery section alongside all the other painted neck and block marker beauties - the new trend starts here.
