Starting with the neck, as it happens it was an easy thing to put right. Titebond glue and an assortment of clamps and Bob was our Aunt and things got strange at our cousin’s parent evening.
From there, bronze and copper enriched paints gave it a top-to-toe tan. It felt quite Essex, even more so when we started splashing our home brew acid in it’s face.
After that was done and dusted, we moved onto hardware, Grover tuners are rock solid, so blam, in they went.
A cheeky wiring loom came direct from a Gibson SG, and was poignantly joined with a Gibson ’57 Classic humbucker at the neck and a Seymour Duncan Phat Cat P90 at the bridge. And man do they rock.
If The Who really did “Live in Leeds” (and believe me I went thru all the fone books, they don’t) this SG would have nailed the tone. I don’t know where Robbie Krieger and Angus Young live either, but they would feel at home too.
All in all, this is a stunningly pimped guitar, which proves that rags to riches tales aren’t just for Hollywood. Tom Hanks couldn’t even spoil this one.
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To be clear, The Raspberry Ripple One is an utterly unique guitar, and there will never, ever, be another made. It is signed and numbered, entirely hand built and finished cooler than a slo-mo run across the pebbled beach at Portishead. There will genuinely never be another guitar like this and past experience suggests that it won’t be around for long.
*** SOLD ***
Technical Stuff:
Type: Pam’s Baywatch Bronze, Lulu’s Copper Top
Electrics: Gibson Classic ’57, SD Phat Cat P90
Guitar Type: Gibson SG
Construction: Mahogany Bod, mahogany/rosewood neck, Corroded Copper/Bronze Finish
Strings: Nickel 10s
Output: ¼” Guitar Lead
Controls: Volume, Tone
Special Stuff: Certificate of Authenticity, Builder Signed and Numbered, All Wrapped with our Trademark Jooky Wrapping.
Serial Number: JGE#54
RSP: £799
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