Jumping@Shadows
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Hi all, I recently came across a project early ‘53 Goldtop that had a very thick ‘champagne’ gold refinish, MOP replaced inlays, all vintage parts MIA etc, but good chunky neck and excellent weight.
I have a full compliment of ‘50s parts and electrics in my stash, so I figured I could strip and refinish using the correct Crescent Gold powder and pure nitro lacquer, but the first scrapes of gelled stripper suggested another direction!
Mocked up with ‘50s parts:
Oh my! Near dead centre seam with fat flames!
Final covering of stripper reveals fat bear claw flame with strong forward chevron lean across the whole bass side, with plenty of matching figure on the treble:
Cleaned up with acetone in natural light- huge tiger stripe flame reminiscent of Carmelita/Claw with a healthy dose of Hotlanta chevron, and very near centre seam with well matched third piece between the knobs:
Mocked up with conversion parts:
Suffice to say I’ll be going ahead with a full burst conversion with ‘50s correct routing, ABR and offset tailpiece, late ‘50s pots/caps and PAFs and shooting an aniline cherry burst that’ll fade to honey/green leaving strong parts shadows, and I think it’ll be a fair contender to last year’s Uber Burst ‘53/‘59:
For those curious how this develops I’ll be updating on my Instagram ‘playergradevintage’ so feel free to follow :salude
I have a full compliment of ‘50s parts and electrics in my stash, so I figured I could strip and refinish using the correct Crescent Gold powder and pure nitro lacquer, but the first scrapes of gelled stripper suggested another direction!
Mocked up with ‘50s parts:
Oh my! Near dead centre seam with fat flames!
Final covering of stripper reveals fat bear claw flame with strong forward chevron lean across the whole bass side, with plenty of matching figure on the treble:
Cleaned up with acetone in natural light- huge tiger stripe flame reminiscent of Carmelita/Claw with a healthy dose of Hotlanta chevron, and very near centre seam with well matched third piece between the knobs:
Mocked up with conversion parts:
Suffice to say I’ll be going ahead with a full burst conversion with ‘50s correct routing, ABR and offset tailpiece, late ‘50s pots/caps and PAFs and shooting an aniline cherry burst that’ll fade to honey/green leaving strong parts shadows, and I think it’ll be a fair contender to last year’s Uber Burst ‘53/‘59:
For those curious how this develops I’ll be updating on my Instagram ‘playergradevintage’ so feel free to follow :salude