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This months project we feature |
We specialize in Guitar Mods!
Tune in each week as we
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Donor guitar: Fender Yngwie Malmsteen Signature Strat - Our Friend Rocky purchased this baby for $1395.00. - Although he loves the tone and feel of this axe - The "look just wasn't right. He contacted Randyciak.com to transform his axe into a "PLAY Loud /Duck" replica. |
Guitar body assembly prior to disassembly. Rocky has supplied us with his own "Ferrari shield" |
Rear view - pretty plain jane - run of the mill
mass-produced signature series guitar.. BORING - haha - we will fix that!! |
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Removing the hardware & pick guard assy. |
All hardware is added to
our aging soup - This will take about a week soaking the parts in our proprietary formula - Hey what's that large rusty bolt doing in there? |
Fender factory used
Black Primer under the Vintage Crème topcoat - we will need to do a Nitro white primer spray-over - then Vintage Crème topcoat (This needs to be done because when the body is AGED,, the white paint will show Like the real duck - not black) |
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White nitro primer ready to shoot... |
spppray - White
primer coat lays down....nice and uniform |
..in the meantime,
we aged the pick guard knobs & pickup covers |
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White Primer finally
dried - time for more sanding with 600 grit to prep for the Vintage Crème Top Coat |
All hardware is pulled from the soup - wow looks FANTASTIC! |
Vintage Crème nitro coat applied....Almost time to age this baby!! |
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Let the aging process
begin! Areas to remove first get penciled in. Note the sticker we are using is a "copy" of the real Ferrari Shield - The sticker did not have "Ferrari" logos on the peel back surface. |
First stage of the
finish removal process is almost complete. We work by hand, using
enhanced photos of the original instrument. |
Play loud sticker added
- and front-side of the body aged. |
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Backside is complete-
NOTE: the sticker is inferior - we could not wear and fade it like the real duck. (In doing so it started to crumble) It still looks pretty cool though! |
Mock assy of the pick
guard & Trem Unit - Sjal we "UNLEASH the FURY" Now??? |
Real assembly is
complete - We Hope our friend Rocky will enjoy this instrument for years to come!! PLay LOud!! |
