Offering a service? Looks like it!

[fdesalvo]

A couple guys approached me about paint restoration and I decided to go for it.  Have some really cool jobs lined up.  Check this out:

A guy brought his unfinished BRJ 7 to have the paint process finished.  The company collapsed in the midst of a full production run, leaving guitars in various states of completion.  This could be one of many.  The company was started up by the son of the BC Rich guy of 70’s/80’s lore.

This one sat around for 4 years the initial polish revealed a bit of damage, which had to be corrected via wet sanding, then various buffing stages.  Black comes from the pit of hell.  Any detailer will tell you – but nothing matches its depth when fully corrected.

 

[bagman67]

Well, that sure cleaned up nice, didn't it?  Beautiful work, as usual, Frank.

 

[Great Ape]

Holy Crap, Frank--you really ace'd that one! Beautiful work!!

 

[BigSteve22]

That came out GREAT! Really a magnificent job there Brother.  :icon_thumright:

 

[pabloman]

Killer job brotha! :yourock:  I'm really diggin that guitar too. I need a super sleek and sexy shred machine.

 

[anorakDan]

Stunning. Just...stunning.

 

[fdesalvo]

Thanks, brothas!  Really enjoying this.  The lack of job opportunities has pushed me to really test my mettle.  I've been a corporate stooge for such a long time and now I'm on my own for now.  Turning into a scrappy cat. 

This whole restoration process is really an adventure.  When I got home, I scraped the binding lol.  Never had the castanets to attempt that before, but I felt confident and proceed with caution.  One slip of the Xacto and it would land on the magnetic black finish.  It came out great!  Suddenly Dan Erlewine emerges from the mists of obscurity and into that place of relevance and I must have every one of his MacGyver'd tools.

A little more scraping is needed for it to be perfect.  Tomorrow..

 

[Logrinn]

Ooh, shiny!

:icon_thumright:

 

[fdesalvo]

Me love shiny!