This guitar was built 2 years ago and my methods and standards are different now, so it needed some attention. It got a new fretboard, a bone nut, a brass tailpiece and a hot single coil pickup, plus a unique distressed finish.
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Originally it was stained solid black on the neck and body. The guitar played well for slide but the intonation was off and there was no way to adjust it without ruining the license plate, which was a family heirloom. So I built the customer an entirely new guitar to match the bridge position of his license plate. Then I put a "new" plate on his old guitar and adjusted the intonation of that one to where it needed to be. Then I decided to do things differently and put in a single coil pickup instead of a piezo. And I added an oak fretboard. And I replaced the brass bolt with a bone nut. Finishing the fretboard led to reworking the black stain, and that led to the distressed finish we see here.
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Originally it was stained solid black on the neck and body. The guitar played well for slide but the intonation was off and there was no way to adjust it without ruining the license plate, which was a family heirloom. So I built the customer an entirely new guitar to match the bridge position of his license plate. Then I put a "new" plate on his old guitar and adjusted the intonation of that one to where it needed to be. Then I decided to do things differently and put in a single coil pickup instead of a piezo. And I added an oak fretboard. And I replaced the brass bolt with a bone nut. Finishing the fretboard led to reworking the black stain, and that led to the distressed finish we see here.
Cool Lookin !
I like it, good job....look great!!!
Looks great! love the "Scorched" effects.
I like the finish. I like going back and re-doing some old builds.