The "Fair Warning" Guitar

[jhale667]

Figured I'd post a thread here for RCA guitars amazing interpretation of the Fair Warning cover on a guitar body...this guy's shit is COOL...


http://www.myspace.com/rcaguitars

[jhale667]

[jhale667]

Check out the guy's attention to detail...













Yeah, needless to say, I want one...

[sadaist]

I'd be lucky to do a decent paint job of the Diver Down cover.

[Diamondjimi]

I'd be lucky to do a decent paint job of the Diver Down cover.

That is one kick ass guitar. Let's see Fender replicate that one!

[jhale667]

That is one kick ass guitar. Let's see Fender replicate that one!

Meh, they'd just make a decal of it and set the MSRP at $25K...

[GAR]

The color in the neck pocket tells me the guy really airbrushed it, as opposed to laminating a lazerprint of the famous London hospital montage - or wherever the Fair Warning scene came from.

This guys' really good with the colors.

[jhale667]

If you look closely at the "in progress" pictures, you can see the outlines of where he had yet to apply the colors...

Yeah, he's really good. I'm getting one, fuck it.

[CameronOU812]

That's an awsome guitar!

[GAR]

I'd like to have him do a graphic for me of him doing a graphic for me within the graphic.

[Matt White]

BRILLIANT


CLASSIC VAN HALEN

SPeddie needs one...................

[Sarge]

That is cool.. but not my cup of TEA!
Breasts,
Sarge

[jhale667]

That is cool.. but not my cup of TEA!
Breasts,
Sarge

Different strokes, yeah...I hear ya.

Think I'm gonna have to rock one, though.

[jhale667]

Some recent postings on the RCA site...more EVH content.





And for the KISS fans out there...lol

[GAR]

Edward Pryzdial is gonna love those fucking things!

HAHAA what was the guy thinking? Do we have any 11-year-old here online who think these are cool?

I'm not stho sthure I wanna sthtrum the sthtringsth over Paul'sth lovely hairy chesthtt.. that would be sthacrilegiousth..

[jhale667]

Uh, the dude's a big Kiss fan...and how long have you had this fixation with Paul Stanley?

[jero]

Great paintjob. These are cool too

[jhale667]

Jeff's rendition of the Fair Warning cover kills that one, but they're cool too...

[jero]

you're right!

[jhale667]

Damn!



Somewhere, Ace CaveKlan just soiled himself...

[Von Halen]

Damn. Them are some sweet guitars!

[Panamark]

Very cool ! I wonder if he does requests from photos ?
Looks like he has the skills...

[jhale667]

Very cool ! I wonder if he does requests from photos ?
Looks like he has the skills...

Pretty much...I've seen recreations of Guitar World cover photos and the like...check out his MySpace page.

MySpace.com - RCA Guitars - 43 - Male - STONE MOUNTAIN, Georgia - www.myspace.com/rcaguitars

[Panamark]

Way Cool Jay !

So many ideas in my head ....

Hey do you know what the song is playing at his webpage..
Great song !

[Diamondjimi]

Damn!



Somewhere, Ace CaveKlan just soiled himself...

Hahahahaaaaa.....

Too funny!!!

That painting is based on what's probably the coolest KI$$ poster of all time.

Two words come to mind these days when I look at Paul & Gene........

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..................................Bitch tits!........................


"He ain't heavy ,he's Gene $immon$........."


Too fat to fly!

[jhale667]

Way Cool Jay !

So many ideas in my head ....

Hey do you know what the song is playing at his webpage..
Great song !

"Mr. Scary"? George Lynch-era Dokken shredfest...

[Panamark]

Well fook me sideways....
Never liked Dokken back in the 80's yet that
shit was the coolest thing I have heard in ages..

Im totally gonna revisit all the 80's bands that I
overlooked..

[Panamark]

BTW, thanks Jay !

Cool thread, Imagine having all that you love, and everything
that is you, on your guitar...

Major trip...

[Panamark]

Its kind of like another level of Tattoos.....

[Coyote]

Well fook me sideways....
Never liked Dokken back in the 80's yet that
shit was the coolest thing I have heard in ages..

Im totally gonna revisit all the 80's bands that I
overlooked..

I recommend Dokken's "Back For The Attack" ("Mr. Scary" is on that) and Ratt's "Dancing Undercover"...

[indeedido]

Great paintjob. These are cool too

That flame with the VH graphic underneathe is killer. And the detail on the Alive! guitar, wow.

[jhale667]

Here's another cool thing Jeff just pulled off...

"Hmm...I wanna use this wizard neck for my Kamikaze replica...but it's got that god-awful Ibenhad headstock, and needs the ESP reverse banana...what to do...?"







Next time I see a suitable Musikraft Charvel Strat body going cheap on Ebay, I am SO having him do a Fair Warning for me...we were emailing about it today, actually...already have a Floyd for it...lol

Come to think of it, should my local buddy be too busy, judging from these pics I could send him the Warmoth paddlehead neck for the Explorer headstock I need for my Kramer build...

[letsrock]

That Fair Warning guitar is hot. Excellent job.

[jhale667]

A few more pics of the Desert Kamikaze...

[GAR]

I dig projects like this, where you make a silk purse from a sows' ear so-to-speak.. but the tuners look really incorrect installed with the holder tab upside down in back.

[jhale667]

I'll give you that nit-pick - he probably re-used the same tuners off the neck...

[GAR]

For sure! If I was gonna upside-down reuse these old Gotohs- which are my fave tuner key- I would have shifted the keys south another 1/4" - 3/8" for better left-hand access.

But I like it - it looks alright. I'm fine with headstock mods, and have a few myself.

Keep in mind, the original 57-59 Gibson Explorer's headstocks were modded and none of those gluejoints have been documented to fail so I think this mod job will last a lifetime.

He even took the time to groove the underside of the headstock to form sort of a rabbeted edge to piece a glueable edge. I think this guy's woodwork is as good as his paint because he considered how to create a strong bond beforehand.. some guys would have done differently.

If I were to do it, I would have used a 4" oscillating spindle sander to make a radius there instead, then cut a 4" semicircled edge and just epoxied that in. But this was just as good I think, a little labored but its fine.

[letsrock]

Good to see nobody is bitching about how many times he wrapped the strings around the tuners.

[jhale667]

Yeah, now that you mention it, there's only two wraps on the low 'E'...

[Diamondjimi]

I dig projects like this, where you make a silk purse from a sows' ear so-to-speak.. but the tuners look really incorrect installed with the holder tab upside down in back.