Before and after: show me what you got!
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Before and after: show me what you got!
We've all got some of these - where you get something with potential and actually make it happen.
Here's my latest:
Here's what I started with - an excellent sounding Deluxe Memory Man '90s Reissue. It had a few tasteful mods completed, like removing the transformer, opamps upgraded, impedance changed. It also has 2x 3005 chips that are such unobtainium.
However, it had been left to rust and was in pretty awful shape externally.
So to make the insides match the outside, I got to work.
First I soaked it in a bath of apple cider vinegar for 3 days to remove the rust (acetic acid does the trick here) and it came out like this:
The rust had been removed but the pitting was still rife with the added bonus of paint flaking off. I had taken a gamble and lost - I was hoping it'd just be surface based but the rust had "past participle of get" under the paint. Plan B engaged!
Cue 5 days off and on using all sorts of sandpapering, polishing, cutting, grinding, and crying to get the case to a shiny polished state. Unfortunately I forgot to get a shot of it but it worked out well, albeit exhausting.
I sent it to my good friends at Emblems NZ to reprint - pretty nail biting stuff but my fears were allayed when I got this back:
My word, they nailed it. Actually, they went beyond nailing it, they actually centred the art properly around the existing holes so it ended up a bit better than before. The case isn't perfect - there are blemishes and light pitting but actually this adds to it as it looks it's ages, as though it's been taken care over but still used for a couple of decades.
After a bit of wrangling, here's the finished product:
Absolutely thrilled with this.
What diamonds from coal have you got kicking around?
Here's my latest:
Here's what I started with - an excellent sounding Deluxe Memory Man '90s Reissue. It had a few tasteful mods completed, like removing the transformer, opamps upgraded, impedance changed. It also has 2x 3005 chips that are such unobtainium.
However, it had been left to rust and was in pretty awful shape externally.
So to make the insides match the outside, I got to work.
First I soaked it in a bath of apple cider vinegar for 3 days to remove the rust (acetic acid does the trick here) and it came out like this:
The rust had been removed but the pitting was still rife with the added bonus of paint flaking off. I had taken a gamble and lost - I was hoping it'd just be surface based but the rust had "past participle of get" under the paint. Plan B engaged!
Cue 5 days off and on using all sorts of sandpapering, polishing, cutting, grinding, and crying to get the case to a shiny polished state. Unfortunately I forgot to get a shot of it but it worked out well, albeit exhausting.
I sent it to my good friends at Emblems NZ to reprint - pretty nail biting stuff but my fears were allayed when I got this back:
My word, they nailed it. Actually, they went beyond nailing it, they actually centred the art properly around the existing holes so it ended up a bit better than before. The case isn't perfect - there are blemishes and light pitting but actually this adds to it as it looks it's ages, as though it's been taken care over but still used for a couple of decades.
After a bit of wrangling, here's the finished product:
Absolutely thrilled with this.
What diamonds from coal have you got kicking around?
Family Music Store - http://familymusic.co.nzGrantB wrote:Tony, your taste is, as always, very refined. Or as HG would say, "bloody awful".
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Re: Before and after: show me what you got!
Oh my god, that is so epic Tony! Utterly winning...
I don't have anything that impressive, but I was pretty pleased with this one... Picked up a Civil War Big Muff cheap. Looked like a dog:
Turned out to be nothing but surface scuffing. Bit of contact cleaner and some elbow grease yielded this:
I was all set to flip it for considerable profit... But turns out it is also the best sounding Big Muff I have ever played.
I don't have anything that impressive, but I was pretty pleased with this one... Picked up a Civil War Big Muff cheap. Looked like a dog:
Turned out to be nothing but surface scuffing. Bit of contact cleaner and some elbow grease yielded this:
I was all set to flip it for considerable profit... But turns out it is also the best sounding Big Muff I have ever played.
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Re: Before and after: show me what you got!
that is freaking amazing toany!
My refurbs usually go the other way though ,i am the ruiner of all things nice...
My refurbs usually go the other way though ,i am the ruiner of all things nice...
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Re: Before and after: show me what you got!
I rather liked the rusty/relic'd version! nice work though, impressive screen print!
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Re: Before and after: show me what you got!
The Russian EHX pedals always look bad-ass. The EmblemNZ job looks impressive too -- how much did they charge?
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Re: Before and after: show me what you got!
That MM restore is the shit, great work there. What state was the circuitry, I assume you replaced all the off board wiring, jacks and pots? Maybe some inside pics if possible?...please .
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Re: Before and after: show me what you got!
Heres a couple... first of all the white tolexed ceriatone 5E3. I liked the white but it was patchy in places and the tolex was lifting....
So it went.
So it went.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
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Re: Before and after: show me what you got!
and the '57 Supro dualtone. I didn't buy it for the colour....
or the tuners...
this is what I was aiming for -
and this is what it turned out like
or the tuners...
this is what I was aiming for -
and this is what it turned out like
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
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Re: Before and after: show me what you got!
And an honorable mention to Adrian's cat, who showed exactly what it thought of the black finish on my customworks. Wondered what the smell was! And the finish started chipping and peeling shortly after that, the force is strong in that depleted cat urinieum .
Big chips of finish would come off and I finally said sod it and took to it with the heat gun.
Big chips of finish would come off and I finally said sod it and took to it with the heat gun.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
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Re: Before and after: show me what you got!
As posted on here before, my Coronet project from last year.
Before...... And after.......
Before...... And after.......
1935 Martin D-45, 1942 Gibson Southern Jumbo,1950 Fender Broadcaster, 1954 Fender Strat, 1958 Gibson Moderne prototype, 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard.
1958 Fender twin, 1965 Vox AC30, 1966 Marshall JTM 45, 1977 Dumble OD Special.
Big black garbage bag full of original Klon Centaurs and TS808s.
1958 Fender twin, 1965 Vox AC30, 1966 Marshall JTM 45, 1977 Dumble OD Special.
Big black garbage bag full of original Klon Centaurs and TS808s.
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Re: Before and after: show me what you got!
Here's a before and after of the LP Deluxe I got at Christmas. Not such a drastic transformation but still very pleasing to the eye.
I'm hoping GrantB gets into this thread. He'll have a ton of great photos.1935 Martin D-45, 1942 Gibson Southern Jumbo,1950 Fender Broadcaster, 1954 Fender Strat, 1958 Gibson Moderne prototype, 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard.
1958 Fender twin, 1965 Vox AC30, 1966 Marshall JTM 45, 1977 Dumble OD Special.
Big black garbage bag full of original Klon Centaurs and TS808s.
1958 Fender twin, 1965 Vox AC30, 1966 Marshall JTM 45, 1977 Dumble OD Special.
Big black garbage bag full of original Klon Centaurs and TS808s.
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Re: Before and after: show me what you got!
Hahaha I can't believe you got that shot mid stream.Bg wrote:And an honorable mention to Adrian's cat, who showed exactly what it thought of the black finish on my customworks. Wondered what the smell was! And the finish started chipping and peeling shortly after that, the force is strong in that depleted cat urinieum .
Love all these BG, I particularly like the tweedification of the Deluxe
Family Music Store - http://familymusic.co.nzGrantB wrote:Tony, your taste is, as always, very refined. Or as HG would say, "bloody awful".
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Re: Before and after: show me what you got!
I always thought Ash had faked it, but he assures me not... cat faux-joTmcB wrote:Hahaha I can't believe you got that shot mid stream.Bg wrote:And an honorable mention to Adrian's cat, who showed exactly what it thought of the black finish on my customworks. Wondered what the smell was! And the finish started chipping and peeling shortly after that, the force is strong in that depleted cat urinieum .
Love all these BG, I particularly like the tweedification of the Deluxe
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
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Re: Before and after: show me what you got!
I'll have to find some good photos of the matchstick SG.
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