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| The Babylon Blue and Scooby Doo Ones |
This is going to be an interesting one for lots of reasons, but I'm going to be doing more of a relic job than I normally do and using nitro paints, so I'm quite pleased about that.
I've kinda avoided such things as relics are twelve-a-penny and I prefer distressing things to get a look rather than to try and looked as though they have been dragged behind a No11 around the Outer Circle, so I guess this will really be somewhere in between.
The neck is a nitro finished Tele one, left handed though it will be reversed and it sports block inlays. It was a bit of a gamble because it came from a U.S luthier I'd never heard of before, but the quality is good so it paid off.
The body is one of Jezz's, so I know what I'm getting there and as I say the finish is going to be quite excitingly cool.
As for the rest, we are yet to nail down the pickups, but a Tele neck one seems most likely - a rail probably - and something twangier at the bridge, whether that is a Ricky one or perhaps something like a Filtertron or Wide Range Humbucker, I'm not sure.
The final part of the jiggysaw is whether it has a Bigsby type of tremolo or if we have some other tailpiece.]
But all in all it may sound odd but I think it will prove to be something special - hope Damo likes it anyway.
More generally, with the new web site not a million miles away I think I'm going to be offering to do more customs as they are good fun if they work as collaborations. Maybe it is ego, but I don't do this for the dosh and I'm not really cut out for 'customer service', so this works on both levels. Anyway, if I don't find it interesting it either won't get done or worse it will be half-hearted, so nobody is better off.
I'm such a strop-laden artist...
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