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#292466 - 02/02/12 01:27 PM
Re: £100 "Clarksonesque" challenge!
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Megi
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Someone seems to have dropped their pizza onto it! Just kidding, and good luck with the contest SF.
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#292468 - 02/02/12 01:39 PM
Re: £100 "Clarksonesque" challenge!
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Megi
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Loc: Lincolnshire
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Beware of the finish-stripping idea, I made that mistake a while ago with a guitar - a lot of more recent Guitars have a polyester finish - this stuff is impervious to even powerful paint finishes, and gives off very nasty fumes if you try to use a heat gun. And depending on the guitar, you may indeed be dissapointed by what you find underneath - I was! the body appeared to be something like 6 pieces of wood, with veneers of some sort of rubbish soft wood top and bottom, presumably to help give a smooth surface for finishing over. A nightmare really, a lot easier starting with a fresh guitar body frankly.
This is just my experience with one guitar, but think carefully is all I'm saying!
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#292736 - 09/02/12 12:47 AM
Re: £100 "Clarksonesque" challenge!
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Tinyghost
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I wish I could do this challenge...but zero money.
Looks like a good project.
A bit of a stone roses vibe with the old jackson pollock motif.
Your strat will look a bit like my old Tokai then? I love the blackout strats.
What are you doing with the old neck? 
I'm going through a silly stage of trying out body ideas. Basically rethinking materials for bodies, the obvious one is old chopping blocks, but then there's biscuit tins (for a resonator sound), plastic moulded cases...in fact anything that you can stick a block of wood through and screw some pickups to. I will create something that sounds great...eventually.
After my bass build...nearly finished, will post pics (quite pleased so far)....
My next job is an acoustic upon which I am painting about 100 penguins...can't wait.
Then a friend wanted me to make his old tanglewood look like a Buck owens (red,white and blue).
Finally, by the end of the year I want to have a crack at the fibre-glass body moulding...a la airline/eastwood. Plus more custom artwork.
Have you thought about a relic or road worn finish? Would look nice on a black strat. Or chrome pickup covers and knobs.
I shall watch with interest sticky.
Good luck.
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#292742 - 09/02/12 09:29 AM
Re: £100 "Clarksonesque" challenge!
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Megi
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The Gilmour black strat idea sounds great to me - if you can get that guitar nailed for less than £100 that will be impressive. Somehow I think you can do it though!
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