Kostas
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The guitar started back in 2008 when I saw this unfinished body in the showcase. My choice of color was the new & special order (at the time) washed black. As you can see in the first pic it has shades of cream, gray, black and light blue. It has the 3D quality where the colors change depending the angle you are looking at it making the quilt "moving". Whoever finished it he did a great job. I wanted this body because of the very symmetric quilt top, it joins my other Warmoth guitars with spalted, flame and burl tops.
All these years I tried a few necks (mine and friends) and I decided I didn't want to match it with a wood of brown color. I had settled on a flame maple neck/fingerboard until I saw this piece of ebony in the site and I took my chance. I like so much this ebony that I would have kept the neck for another project if I didn't liked the combination. Thankfully I love the guitar. Time will tell but this time I believe I did everything right from the beginning. All my experience with the previous guitars paid off and there is nothing I don't like in this one, at least something that could be changed.
The pickups were recommended to me years ago from a guy at TGP. We exchanged a few private messages about capacitors and he told me about Budz. They are clear and as bright as they have to be. Through my involvement with Hi-Fi I learned there is a thin line between extended highs and harsh highs. These pickups are everything I was expecting to be, great classic Fender clean tone and they shine on dirt. The clarity with a drive pedal on max is impressive. I hit a chord and I can hear every note despite the overdrive.
Specs:
Black Korina body (solid) with Maple top (3lbs, 14oz)
Finished/routed by Warmoth
Schaller strap locks
Rutters chopped bridge
Budz Purebred pickups
CTS audio pots, matched & measured at 261k, treble bleed on volume
PIO .047uF capacitor
3 way CRL switch
Flame Maple neck with Macassar Ebony fingerboard
'59 neck profile
10'' radius
SS6150 frets
MOP side dots
Gotoh SGS510Z tuners
Gloss nitro finish & decal placement by Greg (Tonar)
Decals made by Rothko and Frost
Chrome plate art by Doug
Top hat switch tip was given to me by Pete
Since it's a birthday guitar I wanted to experiment with decals. My name was my first idea but I found it too common so I changed it. The name was inspired from a song of Greg Sage's '85 first solo LP "Straight Ahead". An album that I have listened hundreds of times, especially last year when I was unemployed for months. "35 summers" comes from Coppola' s "Rumble Fish" movie, a Tom Waits line where he wonders about the time middleaged people have left to live. It's also the title of a song of my favorite band, again inspired by the movie line.
The impeccable quilt top and the flame neck represent my teen desire to acquire a guitar like the ones I was seeing in the guitar magazines of the early 90's. Although I like every shade of green, red and blue and I would be happy to have guitars with solid colors those with figured woods were always the ones that made the biggest impression on me. I must be the only punk rocker who likes guitars with figured woods...
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the making of this guitar. A special thanks to Doug who has been a great help in several occassions the last years
ccasion14:
All these years I tried a few necks (mine and friends) and I decided I didn't want to match it with a wood of brown color. I had settled on a flame maple neck/fingerboard until I saw this piece of ebony in the site and I took my chance. I like so much this ebony that I would have kept the neck for another project if I didn't liked the combination. Thankfully I love the guitar. Time will tell but this time I believe I did everything right from the beginning. All my experience with the previous guitars paid off and there is nothing I don't like in this one, at least something that could be changed.
The pickups were recommended to me years ago from a guy at TGP. We exchanged a few private messages about capacitors and he told me about Budz. They are clear and as bright as they have to be. Through my involvement with Hi-Fi I learned there is a thin line between extended highs and harsh highs. These pickups are everything I was expecting to be, great classic Fender clean tone and they shine on dirt. The clarity with a drive pedal on max is impressive. I hit a chord and I can hear every note despite the overdrive.
Specs:
Black Korina body (solid) with Maple top (3lbs, 14oz)
Finished/routed by Warmoth
Schaller strap locks
Rutters chopped bridge
Budz Purebred pickups
CTS audio pots, matched & measured at 261k, treble bleed on volume
PIO .047uF capacitor
3 way CRL switch
Flame Maple neck with Macassar Ebony fingerboard
'59 neck profile
10'' radius
SS6150 frets
MOP side dots
Gotoh SGS510Z tuners
Gloss nitro finish & decal placement by Greg (Tonar)
Decals made by Rothko and Frost
Chrome plate art by Doug
Top hat switch tip was given to me by Pete
Since it's a birthday guitar I wanted to experiment with decals. My name was my first idea but I found it too common so I changed it. The name was inspired from a song of Greg Sage's '85 first solo LP "Straight Ahead". An album that I have listened hundreds of times, especially last year when I was unemployed for months. "35 summers" comes from Coppola' s "Rumble Fish" movie, a Tom Waits line where he wonders about the time middleaged people have left to live. It's also the title of a song of my favorite band, again inspired by the movie line.
The impeccable quilt top and the flame neck represent my teen desire to acquire a guitar like the ones I was seeing in the guitar magazines of the early 90's. Although I like every shade of green, red and blue and I would be happy to have guitars with solid colors those with figured woods were always the ones that made the biggest impression on me. I must be the only punk rocker who likes guitars with figured woods...
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the making of this guitar. A special thanks to Doug who has been a great help in several occassions the last years
ccasion14:
