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Yngwie
is one of the
most influential guitarist of the 20th century. In the early 80's he
practically invented the Neo-Classical metal style of guitar. |
This guitar (second of the series) is being built right here at Randyciak.com to honor the Master shredder and his amazing style.
Tune in each week as we build this
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Donor guitar: Fender 70's Olympic White Stratocaster reissue purchased from Musicians Friend for $679.00. This is the perfect donor since it has the large headstock, bullet truss rod, maple neck, and vintage pickup routing for ToNE!. |
Guitar is disassembled and the maple neck fret board hand scalloping begins. This process is very time consuming. |
Rough
Scalloping is almost complete Frets will be crowned and leveled when the neck scalloping and fretboard finishing is done. |
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The final sanding process prior to finish is started. We will be using 220,320, 400 and 600 grit dry sand paper, to prep the wood for nitro. |
sanding continues - look at the grain thats poking through - gorgeous!!! |
Close up of some sweet
scallops - A neoclassical shredders dream!! |
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Next the Olympic white body is prepped and painted with Nitrocellulose Vintage Cream Lacquer |
Body is dry and ready
for color sanding. We will remove all the orange peel off the color coat prior to clear coating this 3bolt vintage routed beauty!! |
Neck has been finished
in Nitro. Brass nut still needs to be installed (backordered) . The fret crowing process will now begin to take any imperfections out after the scalloping process. This will also clean off any nitro that stuck to the frets |
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The guitar is starting
to transform. Clear coat is dry and ready for wet sanding and polishing. |
Wet sanding is complete of neck and body. Neck is fit to body along with some of the vintage hardware- Neck pocket is a perfect tight fit! Play loud sticker is added after the hand polishing was completed. |
Ground wire is soldered
to the 250k volume pot - this will extend through the body and be soldered on the trem claw. |
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Aged pickup covers and knobs are installed. There's just something about yellowed pickup covers and knobs that make me go CRAZY! |
Pick guard and Electronic assy installed - next we will give this axe a bit of light wear to areas where the strap and body rubs - we want this strat to have a broken in used feel. |
Ferrarri Stickers are
placed in Yngwie's favorite spot - Check out the trem block - can you say tone??? Trem cover will not be installed - just like the Master Shredder main axe! |
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Duck Alert - Duck Alert! Donald sticker is added to headstock. Guitar strap selected for this project cry's reminiscence of the Trilogy Album! Still waiting for the brass nut! |
Brass nut arrived - Time
to pop out the original Fender plastic one - careful! |
Cleaning out the glue
and opening the pocket a bit to fit the new nut in - This type of nut is used by the Master Shredder to squeeze a bit more sustain out! |
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Test Fitting her - After getting her perfect, we will glue her in! |
All stung up with 9's- string height set and saddles intonated (Yngwie uses a hybrid set of 8's - were waiting for these to be released to the market!! Check out those scallops!!!! |
Finally our batch of
authentic 70's Donald Duck stickers arrived so we decided to remove the one we installed earlier and get it right! |
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| Birth of an Amazing replica | The duck lives!! | ||||
