I posted pics of this in an earlier thread as a near finished project. And so now here it is all complete, wired and strung.

For whatever reason this project has a tremendous vibe and and sustain. I am so pleased with it that words fail me. Acoustically its superior, (compared to all my other ones) and when you put your ear up to the body it sounds like there is a "Great Pipe Organ" inside. Electrically its also very nice. No not deep and mellow like a Les Paul but also not edgy and thin like a SG. Somewhere in between. (pardon my subjective discriptions)







My best effort to date.

P.S. I am using photobucket and my pictures are coming out too large and I cannot get them correctly oriented. Help!

OL

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I remember when we were free!

Very...Very Nice .....Makes me want to get in this...



To Go There.......



While listening to T.N.



To Go and do That....

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"C'est parti mon Kiki "

When you are at your I-Photo ( hope your on a G4 I-Mac ) full screen the pic, then you can crop it, orient it to vertical or horizontal.

Then when you 1st upload it to photobucket the right hand side of the page will give you clicking options to reduce the size of the posted photo.

I think you may also be able to do cropping and other details....
I just take care of the layout on the Mac then just simply upload to photo bucket.
We do lose some resolution on PB but I'm not at the point where I need the excellent resolution for image capture perfect...However that is another issue on the Audizine Forum as they are quite picky about clarity.....

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"C'est parti mon Kiki "

Very nice Love the color.

Dunno why, but I love the knobs with that pickguard and the humbuckers. Put it together with the Lake Placid Blue and maple fingerboard and it's a great combination. Nice job!

Unlike 53 it does not make me want to go surf giant waves - I'd drown in seconds. But it sure makes me want to grab that guitar! Congrats.

Cheers - C

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I used to surf pretty much 365 days a year...Not much else to do other than work and music when you live on an island 14 miles out from the mainland.... I actually competed for a few years going up and down the East Coast......I miss it badly sometimes....
What some people get from Yoga I got from just sitting out on a perfect 6' light offshore day with the sun rising or setting and just a couple mates.....
Serenity and Zen cannot be found so easily....
Although skiing the woods off of Mt Mansfield was a similar cerebral recharge.....

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You have my deep and serious respect. One of the two times in my life I believed myself to be seconds away from death was a near-drowning incident in big, big waves off a beach in South Africa. Beautiful hot day, five mile long gorgeous sandy beach with nobody's footprints on it but mine - and as I discovered an undertow pulling me out to sea faster than I could swim. 45 minutes of struggling and getting beaten over the head by those huge waves; I'd just given up hope and prepared to die when the tip of my toe touched bottom and I realised I'd got close enough to land to save myself.

It didn't put me off the ocean, but it made me pay it far more respect from that moment on. Nowadays I leave the giant rollers to the reckless young tearaways like you, 53magnatone.

Words like Lake and Placid and Blue are as close as I want to get to that action these days. With the emphasis on the Placid part.

Apologies for the hijack. Movin' on...

Cheers - C

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I always wanted to try surfing. I think it would be absolutely thrilling.

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I remember when we were free!

Glassy untouched Virgin maple neck ?? (pause to salivate) , real nice colour OL perfect matched scratchplate

This project did not happen so easily. I love LCB but had a hard time finding a scheme to pull it all together.I stared at it often and worked through mint, white, aged white, tortise, black...nothing just "did it" and then I hit upon the black pearl. I had Warmoth cut it for me. The last little miracle was the knobs. I needed something for solid shafts, not so easy to find, but by chance I found these at Radio Shack for $1.00 a piece. Perfect color and scale. I am very happy with it.

Body is a 2011 MIM , neck is 2011 MIA, pickup set was a unit from a Blacktop, and Fender MIM bridge. GFS solid steel trem block for MIM. Fender locking tuners. Neckplate is a chrome one with "Fender Corona California" on it.

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I remember when we were free!

I have a stripped body at home, I've been debating on a color...I'm now thinking I like this LPB color...very nicely done strat!

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"Where would rock and roll be without feedback?"

wow, i really love that color, and the pick-guard really matches it nicely! well played!

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Squier For Life!

Peavey Mark IV Bass head
Peavey 2x10
Peavey 1x15

After your photos have been uploaded to PhotoBucket, you can edit them pretty much any way you want. You can click on your photo and when it comes up you can just hit the EDIT button above your photo. From there the first thing you can do is size it down, crop and rotate. Easy to do and nothing can get mangled.

HTH

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Dennis in CR
Rockin' since 1963

OL,
Congratulations on creating a beautiful instrument, not surprising it has made some long for open water. Wonderful combination of finish color, pickguard and knobs. And it sounds good, too? Mama!

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I'm twanged if I do, twanged if I don't

Extremely nice, Oneal . I totally admire the axe, and your work. Congrats

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A-man