Guitar???
OK guys here are my two guitars:
the first one is a fairly rare 1970 gibson student SG. I got it for $100 in '75 the original owner had sanded it down to bare wood except for the head stock, I refinished it from there. It had a single Humbucker at the neck and I had a P-90 installed at the bridge in Atlanta while visiting Barry ( see 'the birth of the blue missile') I later rewound the P90 160% to increase its output. I painted Hendrix on the back and his sparrow on the front. I also painted the entire centerfold from 'Eat a Peach' on the front of the case.
fifteen years later I re-did the paint job and installed active pickups and electronics, and biult a solid oak flight case for travel.
The second guitar is a 1954 Kent (Kent was Epiphone's Sears brand when they belonged to Gibson) It was on the way to the dumpster in Miami when I was helping clean out and move a church. It had a soft pine bolt-on neck that was shot but the body was fine. I tool it and built a meple neck reinforced with a carbon fiber/steel truss rod. Covered the neck with a layup uf walnut veneers and a lacewood fretboard. Oh for the record both guitars are frettless. I veneered the body with Elm burl and pearloid banding.
I used more lacewood for the 'control plate' and carved a curly maple cover for the P-90 pickup left over from the rebuild of the SG.
Andrew
OK guys here are my two guitars:
the first one is a fairly rare 1970 gibson student SG. I got it for $100 in '75 the original owner had sanded it down to bare wood except for the head stock, I refinished it from there. It had a single Humbucker at the neck and I had a P-90 installed at the bridge in Atlanta while visiting Barry ( see 'the birth of the blue missile') I later rewound the P90 160% to increase its output. I painted Hendrix on the back and his sparrow on the front. I also painted the entire centerfold from 'Eat a Peach' on the front of the case.
fifteen years later I re-did the paint job and installed active pickups and electronics, and biult a solid oak flight case for travel.
The second guitar is a 1954 Kent (Kent was Epiphone's Sears brand when they belonged to Gibson) It was on the way to the dumpster in Miami when I was helping clean out and move a church. It had a soft pine bolt-on neck that was shot but the body was fine. I tool it and built a meple neck reinforced with a carbon fiber/steel truss rod. Covered the neck with a layup uf walnut veneers and a lacewood fretboard. Oh for the record both guitars are frettless. I veneered the body with Elm burl and pearloid banding.
I used more lacewood for the 'control plate' and carved a curly maple cover for the P-90 pickup left over from the rebuild of the SG.
Andrew