solderjunkie
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Heres Frances, the Frankenburst, as has been pictured in another thread. Built by Roman Rist from a stash of old growth wood, and using one of the original Max templates, from when they used to work together. I gave him a '61 SG fretboard, with frets still intact, and the truss rod and holly veneer off a broken '59 LP Special carcass, that was beyond salvaging. PAFs, every screw, piece of metal or piece of plastic is '59 correct, except for the rings, which are Bartlett. I accumulated all the parts over many years from many sources. I did the finish myself. The cherry is currently more brown / ice tea. Plays and sounds amazing. It's my weekly gig guitar.
Heres Frances, the Frankenburst, as has been pictured in another thread. Built by Roman Rist from a stash of old growth wood, and using one of the original Max templates, from when they used to work together. I gave him a '61 SG fretboard, with frets still intact, and the truss rod and holly veneer off a broken '59 LP Special carcass, that was beyond salvaging. PAFs, every screw, piece of metal or piece of plastic is '59 correct, except for the rings, which are Bartlett. I accumulated all the parts over many years from many sources. I did the finish myself. The cherry is currently more brown / ice tea. Plays and sounds amazing. It's my weekly gig guitar.
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Heres Frances, the Frankenburst, as has been pictured in another thread. Built by Roman Rist from a stash of old growth wood, and using one of the original Max templates, from when they used to work together. I gave him a '61 SG fretboard, with frets still intact, and the truss rod and holly veneer off a broken '59 LP Special carcass, that was beyond salvaging. PAFs, every screw, piece of metal or piece of plastic is '59 correct, except for the rings, which are Bartlett. I accumulated all the parts over many years from many sources. I did the finish myself. The cherry is currently more brown / ice tea. Plays and sounds amazing. It's my weekly gig guitar.
Woah, just glancing through and saw that fretboard thinking "that doesn't look right" as in...that looks about right.
Good job.
I love the strap!! Is that a vintage one?
I bought a '61 SG neck that had both the headstock and the body broken off. Feels just right, too. It has that weird thing that my '53 conversion has, where the trapezoids have become a little translucent.
Waited almost 8 years for this one, a replica of a Derrig replica - thanks to Jim at Scumback for making this finally happen!
This guitar pretty much steals this show !Here's my Gil Yaron, with it's top made from a 100 year old reclaimed old growth maple table top that Gil's mom found. Marvelous guitar.:jim