Had to do it for insurance so heck lets post it here I know you guys enjoy pics

Introduction:

NO:1 (Am Std)



Yammy (Acoustic beater) and Mon Cheri (chery burst LP standard)



Jimi (MIM Std with CS69s and other boring upgrades)



Zebracaster (Mr X) My own custom shop.



All except one more russian ES 175 copy at the shop for repair

Beauty, eh? Nice collection!

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---> "The amp should be SWITCHED OFF AND UNPLUGGED before you do this!" <---

Por favor, disculpe mi español, no se llega a la práctica con mucha frecuencia.

Cool little collection daniel,
btw do you still play with toy trains?

like the zebracaster, sweet collection

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riley

sweet lookin family. thanks for posting

nice collection.
i gotta do the sae thing soon with my gear.
i like the zebra guitar. you should give us a run down on it.
oh and get rid of that car battery. i wouldnt store that thing around my gear.

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63supro
"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

Great collection, thanks for sharing!

Never mind the battery I am still working on organizing my "man cave".
The guitars are stored safely away from it in their cases when not played. This was a line up for photo session only.

Ahh... the story of zebracaster, well it was originally a Squier classic vibe 50s. Great playing guitar and I bought it for $285 + tax new.

Body:
The body was a little bit damaged due to the one accident that I had with it. I tried to take some clear finish and paint to fix it with the heat gun and another fiasco happened that too much paint went off with that action so I stripped it all to the barre wood in less than an hour. Positive side is that I found out that squier factory does amazingly neat and thin polyurethane paint job on this line of guitars. Later body was fixed and received a zebra paint job.

Neck:
Neck had a shiny and a bit sticky finish at the back so I took that off to the wood and did a bit of neck back side shaping so the bottom of the neck is thinner than a top. Front of the neck received the rolled edges treatment since that is my most favorite thing on my NO1 (Am Std) neck. with that I had to refinish the fret ends. I liked how the body looks and decided to strip the paint of the headstock and give it a stripe paint job.

Tuners are ping standard issue and work very well so I left them alone. I installed a 50's style round string tree.

Electronics and pickups:
Standard pickups on this guitar are alnico III and are excellent but not a best match on this particular guitar (too trebly). They will probably one day end up on my NO1 since it is a very dark sounding guitar. In the attempt to keep the 50's vibe and tone I installed a set of vintage noiseless (Clapton's). With the big help from Martian, Niki and other experts I wired it up with the 250 k US made pots. The other original electronic parts were utter garbage and everything was replaced with a quality components.

There is another black hss pick guard for this guitar that houses fender vintage noiseless in the neck position and gibson classic 57 in the bridge and it is wired like a tele with a three way switch. No pickup in the middle. I used 1m and 500k pots on this one and when used with this guitar in the bridge position it sounds like an SG.

The bridge is mexican (metric) plate with the callaham heavy steel block and graptech saddles.

This guitar rarely went on gigs due to the constant tweaking and other various experimentation. I really did not have much luck with a paint on this guitar so one day when I thought that the lacquer has dried (after 30 days hanging, few days of hardware installation and hand handling) on the zebra paint job I let is lay on the acoustic guitar case overnight and the texture from the case had left a nasty imprint on the paint job. It is not visible on the picture but it is ugly. That is the reason I was asking in another thread about letting my kids paint it as an art project.

That is it

i like the zebra indeed. very different looking.
if it were mine, i would redo it and get so serious with it too.
i would use the same paint pattern but just a touch of white on the upper horn (not a lot mind you) to break up the black and keep the zebra pattern going. very different looking indeed bro.
it stands out nicely. redo it with lessons learned from the original build.
you wont regret it i promise you. take and play it. i bet you'll get loads of comments on it.

get a affinity for the kids.

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63supro
"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

Good lookin' Stuff!

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Hey, Boy Blue is back!

Yes! nice looking guitars there, I also like the zebra. Funny thing is, back in the mid sixties, around my way a lot of the guy's were doing exactly the same thing with their axes but in red and white. Amazing, hey what?

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