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Tired of the same old look after all these years

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rnolan:
Hey Harley, I downloaded the picks and checked them out in photo viewer (or whatever comes with windows)  :thumb-up: .  The blue of that strat was a little deeper (sky blue(ish)?) IIRC than the Daphne which is a bit more washed out/pastel.  I know what you mean re strat necks, some are just right and others not so good.  My Anderson has slightly V shaped neck and, as you say, just fits perfectly so you don't know it's there.  My JPLP (which is shaved '59 (so even thinner than'59 neck) seems to be a very shallow C. It also feels great.  I always wanted a white strat ala hendrix, and also black with white scratch plate ala Blackmore. 

An out there idea, I recon it would suit it to have the body "relick-ed" a little bit, like where you arm comes over the body  :dunno:

Harley Hexxe:
Hey Richard,

     The '59 necks aren't that thin really, they're kind of chunky from all the ones I've tried, sort of like a deep "C" shape. Not really wide across the fret board, but definitely had some depth to it. Very much like the neck on my 1st VOX guitar.

     Personally speaking, I'm not a fan of the "relic" look, and I wouldn't do that to any of my guitars. My favorite playing Strat already has that look and I hate it. That's the one that was stolen from me in '98, and I got it back in '09. When I got it back, it was missing a lot of finish and paint. I'd like to restore it to a much better appearance, but I don't know if it can be done with that particular one. However, on the upside, being that it is missing so much of the finish, it does resonate better than any other guitar I have. I'll be working on that one next. It does need some repair work and I'm going to swap out the inertia block for a machined steel one, then I'll insulate the control cavity with copper foil tape, and install a new pick guard there. The pickups just sound too damned good to put anything else in there.

rnolan:
Hey Harley, that's interesting, I haven't played any "real" '59 LPs, just the '60s one my friend has (allegedly worth $175K so he doesn't take it out to gigs).  The neck on his is really similar to the JPLP neck but the JP is a replica of Pages #1 that he bought from Joe Walsh who'd had the neck shaved so a bit thinner, which I love.  The JPLP is the only LP I've ever played where I "really" like the neck, it was love at first touch, so after some umming and ahhring over 2 weeks I bought it. 

I know what you mean about relics, I'm not a fan, particularly the rusted HW etc.  For yours I was thinking of the slightly worn finish look that well used guitars sometimes get on the top of the lower bout, I just thought that that would blend with the new look and give it a bit of "street cred" i.e. show a bit of skin/flesh as it were. 

Amazing you got the stolen Strat back.  Seems it was well played (or abused  :facepalm: ) to loose finish.  Since it's resonating much better without the bits of finish maybe you could strip it and oil it instead?  Show off the wood (if the woods worth showing off).

Harley Hexxe:
Hey Richard,

     That's true about Jimmy Page's guitar, he did buy it from Joe Walsh, and the neck was shaved down to make it faster. In the early 60's, both Fender and Gibson were trending towards thinner necks, then they started trending back to thicker necks in the 70's.

   It doesn't show very well in the pictures, but the area where my right arm rests on the body, is getting discolored a bit. Kind of like where the paint is on the curve of the contour, it seems to have a faded outline.

    Yeah, I had posted about that on here when I got that guitar back in '09. It wasn't played to death, it was actually kept in a basement without the case. When they guy who bought it from the kid who stole it passed away, his two sons inherited all his guitars. The one who got mine got very curious about all the mods I did to it and tried researching the serial#. When he did, he found the post I put up with the serial number when I listed it as stolen. He contacted me and returned it to me in the condition it's in now.

    I wouldn't oil finish it though. The body is 3-piece alder, so not that spectacular. Since the guitar is made in 1983, and one of the last CBS guitars, (One of the earliest '57 reissues), it's probably not considered that much of a vintage guitar. Besides, the neck on that guitar is ultra-thin and fast, definitely not like the actual '57 necks which were pretty chunky with a definite "V" shape. Probably what people call a "boatneck" these days. I did get a chance to play an actual '57 Strat and it is a world apart from the one I have, both in the feel of it and the tone. I like mine better.

rnolan:
Hey Harley, wow, great he looked it up and you got it back, destiny?
Interesting with the JPLP, I fell for it as soon as I played it, and researched it after I'd bought it and then discovered the whole #1 story.

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