and just cos I can, I'll update the "overall progression" post I did in the other thread:
I thought I'd emphasise the progression of this guitar
When I first bought it ($350 from Harmony House in 1992) it was a fairly vile blue/purple (not a good purple, Rog; I like purple, but this was just wrong) copy of a Jackson dinky strat, thus:
It's on the right of the pic. A friend and I are swapping the necks over between it and my Samick strat (that was the reason I bought the Rockson; to use the neck), and the neck from the Rockson is therefore barely visible on the Samick I'm holding on the left: a fairly standard-looking Jackson-style sharkfin inlay blah blah.
Then I decided to get rid of the 'orrid paint:
While I was at it, I filed a couple of very very verrry budget bevels into the cutaways ... to make it cooler. Apparently.
Then I painted it, and you can see how unglossy I got it:
However, the paint was fairly strongly adherent to the body, as I found this year when I tried to strip it back myself. Here it is after I threw in the towel and gave it to Ash. (And it should be noted that the large very well-stripped area was done by Ash rather quickly when I asked him what wood it was).
you can also see the Ibanez Wizard II neck I scored from Ash.
And after Ash did a proper job with the bevels on the cutaways, stripped it back, and did a coat of sealer (?):
Then after some beautiful staining:
And now:
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I'm going to be dreaming about her all thru christmas and new year until I actually get to take her home.
