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solderjunkie

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That is killer Solderjunkie! More pics please.

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JJ Blair

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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.

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CoOlcat

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A 1998 Orville Les Paul Standard, does this count as a replica? i love this guitar, it's such a joy to play!
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Here's what I found inside...what a mess!
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I bought NOS CTS pots and used Sprague Orange Drops, used braided shielded cloth wire, it's all nice and clean back to specs. As far as I know Orville didn't use push/pull pots as shown in the previous pics, so whoever did this didn't even have the p/p pot hooked up correctly.
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deytookerjaabs

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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.

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Woah, just glancing through and saw that fretboard thinking "that doesn't look right" as in...that looks about right.


Good job.
 

MapleFlame

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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.

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fwOKeOj.jpg

NG9KdKK.jpg



Nice fiddle
 

fakejake

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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.

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I love the strap!! Is that a vintage one?
 

JJ Blair

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Woah, just glancing through and saw that fretboard thinking "that doesn't look right" as in...that looks about right.


Good job.

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.
 

deytookerjaabs

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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.


Is that it? I never looked too close, always assumed that bit of brown was just from all the cigarettes :##
 

JJ Blair

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Waited almost 8 years for this one, a replica of a Derrig replica - thanks to Jim at Scumback for making this finally happen!

Wait, you know what happens when you make a copy of a copy, right?

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BTW, my friend owned the Derrig one serial numbers after Slash's. Really not a great guitar. I was shocked. He traded it for a conversion.
 
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