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    Frankenstrat replica (better pictures)

    So since my dumbass didn't post good pictures in my previous thread about this replica here they are again. And more this time! Hope everyone likes! Still waiting on the reflectors to arrive.










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    Looks like shit! Ha ha!

    Your accuracy is amazing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Von Halen View Post
    Looks like shit! Ha ha!

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    So I was doing work with the selector switch and the wires. Very happy with the results. Looks dead on for current day


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    Pretty fucking amazing! Kudos...
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    But next time, add the pics to your original thread instead of adding to the clutter with a new one.

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    You did a great job! I hear getting the right reflectors is a bitch because the company that made them is long gone. Eddie bought them at a truck stop and stuck them on his guitar. How does it play? I can remember looking at that mess of wires in photos in the early 80's wondering what the hell it was. There were all these theories on how Ed was getting his sound and gee what is going on with that guitar. I talked to Mike Soldano up in Seattle and he actually worked on Ed's old Marshall Super Lead 100 and he was like oh goody I get to see what mods he has. Mike said the amp was stock. Nothing special and if you plug it into the wall it's just a loud 100 watt Marshall but if you drop the voltage down to around 85 with a variac tha amp gets the tone. I always hear Ed had a regular PAF pickup in the Franken Strat. Watching VH videos I still think his best sounding guitar was his 5150 Kramer. That was a great sounding guitar. Whatever he was using with that on the 1984 tour sounded great live.
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    Great job...'71 quarter?
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    I was inspired by Paul Stanley's guitar and because I love the Teles I made me this little beauty...
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    ...I call her "The Crackwhore"...
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    Quote Originally Posted by vandeleur View Post
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    Yeah...but working with a real glass mirror is a challenge...

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    How smooth are the edges of the top, and how did you get it that way?

    I remember reading an interview with the guy from Ibanez who made the new mirror guitar before the KISS reunion tour. Said he hacked up his hands working on it.
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    That thing looks badass Natra.

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    Quote Originally Posted by twonabomber View Post
    How smooth are the edges of the top, and how did you get it that way?

    I remember reading an interview with the guy from Ibanez who made the new mirror guitar before the KISS reunion tour. Said he hacked up his hands working on it.
    He is an idiot then...when I started the project I thought about the steps how to do it and started working. Then I found the interview with the guy who did it back then in 1977 and figured that I choose exactly the same way so I wasn't that wrong.

    But I worked with a Dremel and a diamond cutter so I could also grind the edges. It's a kind of jigsaw puzzle and needs patience but the edges are smoother that way (you can't just smash the mirror anyway). I was wearing gloves the whole time and never cut me once. There are some small sharp edges that I covered with epoxy resin.

    I also reversed the control plate. The tone Poti is (a pushpull) in the middle now. I want a direct way to the volume knob which I need more often than the switch.

    Don't know how it sounds yet because I made a little mistake with the bridge. Gonna fix it this weekend and then I will see. But that bitch isn't about the sound in the first place. 20170209_094213.jpg
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    Quote Originally Posted by Von Halen View Post
    That thing looks badass Natra.
    Thanks! She does...but you have to polish that bitch...

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