1964 FB III meets Router

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AiRdAd wrote:That looks great Grant!

Just out of interest, what was behind the reason you didn't paint it yourself? You're a very competent painter, was it just a lack of time? Or did this guitar need special attention to the paint job?

before you actually purchased the guitar had you planned out everything that you wanted to do to the guitar? Or did it take a while to make a decision?
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But the move to route the bridge pickup size larger to fit that full size bucker was a recent thing. The guitar was never going to be a $15k original FB and I loved it so much it was obvious...make it sound great and play it live at every opportunity. Thats the plan!
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Looks cool and I'm sure it sounds great, though I remember playing this guitar at a gearfest and thinking the pickups were about perfect. Suspect my ears aren't as good as yours though. :lol:

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It’s even perfecter now!
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It's a FB III, not a IV as I had typed *embarrassed*
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GrantB wrote:It's a FB III, not a IV as I had typed *embarrassed*
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Fecking Beautiful to the power of 3
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When you said balanced Grant, did you mean lighter front/neck weight, or pickups?

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mike wrote:When you said balanced Grant, did you mean lighter front/neck weight, or pickups?
Actually, very much both. The guitar sits to the right quite a bit and fret access is very much like a Les Paul.

And the mix of the old Gibson split pole Pat No., and the Shaw is perfect.
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I've never managed to gel with Firebirds, as cool as I think they look (like this one!) and sound, but perhaps I've not played the right ones. I always feel like I'm playing a coffee table.

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GrantB wrote:
mike wrote:When you said balanced Grant, did you mean lighter front/neck weight, or pickups?
Actually, very much both. The guitar sits to the right quite a bit and fret access is very much like a Les Paul.

And the mix of the old Gibson split pole Pat No., and the Shaw is perfect.
That's great. They are one of the best looking kinds of electric guitars to me, and that one looks fantastic.

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