Relic Esquire Build Started

[Sarge]

I recently purchased this body from Mark mjtagedfinishes.com It is very nice and those guys are very cool!

It is a Daphne Blue relic. I specified medium aged with minimal yellowing.
The body seems light and I can't wait to see what this guitar is like put together.

Here is the 2 photos that was sent to me by MJT
NOT MY PICTURES OR MY UGLY CARPET!!!!
http://www.thefretshack.com/images/Relicbody3.jpg

http://www.thefretshack.com/images/Relicbody4.jpg

The neck is going to be a USACG Rosewood c- shaped neck. It's a compound 7.25 to 9.5 Radius.

The pickup is going to be a Don Mare Stingray 3 Speed pickup.

I have had all the parts sitting around here for awhile and instead of getting off my ass and doing an assembly... I sent it to the guy at kingbeeguitars.com to put it together.
Should be here is a few weeks.

[ELVIS]

I'd have it repainted...;)

[Sarge]

you don't like it?

[indeedido]

I'll have to spend some time on that site. Cool stuff. Looks like a time saver!

[jhale667]

Looks like it's just relic'ed enough...not excessive, just usual wear. Very Nice! :D

[Matt White]

Very Kewl SARGE....

[jeffturner]

Hey its doesn't look that much good

[Seshmeister]

I'd have it repainted...;)

I'd have it recarpeted.

Grey with ferns, WTF?

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Hey its doesn't look that much good

Buh-bye...

[ELVIS]

you don't like it?

No, I really do like it...

It's not overdone at all...

I was just checking out his website...I might give him a call about refinishing my stripped 1955 Strat neck...


:elvis:

[Sarge]

Buh-bye...

For those that were wondering.. the guy got a ban for posting links to perscription medicine.

Breasts,
Sarge

[Sarge]

I think it's a weird color.
We will see how it works out.
The guy that is doing the rest has been giing me a real headache.
Breasts,
Sarge

[ELVIS]

Is this the same place that painted the LPB Tele in your other thread ??

[GAR]

Daphne Blue is a really hard color to nail.

The hardest is that see-thru aged butterscotch, I finally got with House of Kolor Aztec Gold Candy, with about 8:1 mix of Deft semi-clear lacquer lightly with about 2 coats before a shitload of clear.

Lake Placid blue is a nice one too. Mary Kaye white is my #1 favorite, more than the 70's aged Sherwin Williams plain white (which is aged clear over the white going yellow)

Sometimes you go to get paint custom matched, and the guy is a dipshit and insists it's the color you brought a sample of. Sometimes you luck out and get an older guy who can do it by eye, and just nail it. Color is always always different every single time they pour it.

[Sarge]

Is this the same place that painted the LPB Tele in your other thread ??

No man
the Lake Placid Blue tele was painted by kingbeeguitars.com

[Sarge]

The guy from King Bee Guitars is done with it.
He was really impressed with the Don Mare 3 Speed Stingray Pickups.


The Esquire plays like a million dollars. It's got a really fat neck and the guitar just resonates to no end. It sounds like an Esquire should.
http://www.rotharmy.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=93&d=1233957926

http://i713.photobucket.com/albums/ww136/kingbeeguitars/IMG_2050.jpg

http://i713.photobucket.com/albums/ww136/kingbeeguitars/IMG_2058.jpg

http://i713.photobucket.com/albums/ww136/kingbeeguitars/IMG_2052.jpg

[Sarge]

It was mailed yesterday.. so I should get it sometime next week.
Can't wait!

[GAR]

.. so you'll be getting it apo-fpo when, like in 6 weeks? Or can you get fedex there..

[GAR]

whups!

hahahaha you're thikin what im thinkin

[GAR]

So far I like it, always liked the Tele style so it was my first handbuilt back in 82-83.

That guitar had some body variation as this one does: it's not exactly a Tele (the headstock's far from a Fender shape, though it sports a decal) but it looks very comforable and styled respectably enough that nobody's gonna smirk that it's a copy or something.

these pics look more daphne than the other ones, those were way green looking but you never can tell till you get it in your hand.

[Sarge]

The neck I sent the guy was a USACG (Love them) neck that they guy reshaped.
Not too worried about it looking too close to the tele headstock.
Althought in the other pics I have it looks closer. I think it's the angle of the picture.

It takes about 5 days to get priority mail here.
Not too long.
For some reason it takes envelopes 2 weeks. I think it's the way the mail is sorted.

Breasts,
Sarge

[Sarge]

Oh and I would like to add that the whole thing was... very cheap.
I supplied the body and neck.
Louis at kingbeeguitars.com finished the neck, assembled and wired it up.
It was worth it. The parts have been sitting here for a year waiting on me to do something about it.

[ELVIS]

Hmmm...

Really awesome, but the headstock varies a bit from a true tele, but close though...

Very nice! Especially the hardware...


:elvis:

[GAR]

Two incoming orphans=two gotta go!

Cmon Sarge, which ones you gonna cut loose to make room? You don't wanna be like me with a whole storage full of guitar cases stacked double-high.. then wind up with only one acoustic couch player!

I've learned to let go: I can think of three I'd ebay right now...

daphne blue strat copy (Memphis ply body w/Strat Squeer Indonesia neck, stock S_S_S pu's)

Black Fender Mex telecaster, stock

Hondo pointy thing, 2 hum

Yamaha 72 ES335 copy, weireded out shape, cheap, noisey

Epi Les Paul Honeyburst, the one I bought for $150 but haven't glued yet

I'm buying another house in June I believe, I should really boil it down to next to nothing. Cut some of that crap loose, Sarge!

[GAR]

Geez that's a thousand bux worth of crappy guitars I got tied up and didn't even realize it..

[Sarge]

I downsized from 30 to about 7. Now I am up to 12 or so.
I don't want to let any go right now.
Although when I did sell to Europeans on Ebay here I made BANK!
That is the only time when I loved the EURO!
Teh hell'z with the ebay buyers paying in measley dollars

Breasts,

[ELVIS]

I'm at about 30 with no plan to downsize...:D

[GAR]

After getting hit with a big theft, I don't fall in love with guitars anymore. I used to, about 20 years ago I had 120-130 before paring it down to 20. Then I was left with 1 full guitar and 4 or 5 in parts and that changed everything for me.

An endorsement would change that for me, of course. But as it is I'm never been happy with most production guitars and that's why I got into building them in the first place.

So I hope you two never get hit with by a thief, and can enjoy what you own..

[GAR]

After getting hit with a big theft, I don't fall in love with guitars anymore. I used to, about 20 years ago I had 120-130 before paring it down to 20. Then I was left with 1 full guitar and 4 or 5 in parts and that changed everything for me.

An endorsement would change that for me, of course. But as it is I'm never been happy with most production guitars and that's why I got into building them in the first place.

So I hope you two never get hit with by a thief, and can enjoy what you own..

[ELVIS]

I got hit while on vacation but only my favorite hand scalloped Strat (scalloped by me) and my lefty Les Paul Custom were the only guitars in my living room at the time and the only two to get stolen along with my computer and a few other things...

I had over 20 guitars and basses in a spare bedroom that were not touched...

Oh well...


:elvis:

[Sarge]

After getting hit with a big theft, I don't fall in love with guitars anymore. I used to, about 20 years ago I had 120-130 before paring it down to 20. Then I was left with 1 full guitar and 4 or 5 in parts and that changed everything for me.

An endorsement would change that for me, of course. But as it is I'm never been happy with most production guitars and that's why I got into building them in the first place.

So I hope you two never get hit with by a thief, and can enjoy what you own..

Damm 120?
How did you take care of them?
That is a lot of string changes and setups when the weather changes.
When I was living in Texas I had 17 guitars hanging up on the wall and didn't have setup problems.
I tired that here in Italy and the first winter I was setting up 17 guitars and changing strings on 17 guitars.

So what got stolen?
Any vintage pieces?
:devils:

[Diamondjimi]

Hey its doesn't look that much good


Buh-bye...

:mad0233:Bam!!!:mad0233:

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:biggrin:

[Diamondjimi]

The guy from King Bee Guitars is done with it.
He was really impressed with the Don Mare 3 Speed Stingray Pickups.


http://www.rotharmy.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=93&d=1233957926

Sweet! I love the Esquires. Dig the the amount of tonal differences from the single pickup setup...

Awaiting full review upon receivership...;)

[Sarge]

Awaiting full review upon receivership...;)

Sure, but is "receivership" a word?
:)

[GAR]

Damm 120?
How did you take care of them?
So what got stolen?
Any vintage pieces?
:devils:

It's a lot of work, or was. I pared 120 down to the best, most personal 20. Everything of value, 70K worth gone, a couple vintage yeah, basically my whole rig too.