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Post subject: Re: Fender Hendrix Voodoo Guitar AUTHENTICITY HELP
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 8:07 pm
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....From the edge of the paint line, it looks like the H route was factory, then the S route was done to drop that floor a few 64ths, then only the S area was painted, witnessed by the bleedover of the carbon paint...


That doesn't really make sense. Why would anyone do that?

If the S route was done in the factory but if the final plunge wasn't clean and exacty the same shape as the preceding plunges you would get the uneven edges at the bottom as seen. The S route would then have been painted.

Subsequently someone decided to fit an Hbucker and the H route wasn't as deep as the S route and actually just shy of the original final plunge, hence the rough edge of the original being evident.

I would agree if we assume that the S route is original.

But that would not explain the feathering of the black paint at the junction of the S and H routes.
The carbon paint would not have soaked into the wood to be revealed like that when the H route was cut... that paint was applied, possibly with the H route masked off, after the H route was cut, and the paint wicked along the grain on the surface of the H route.

I might expect to see the carbon paint soak into the grain that far on a basswood or pine body, but not on alder or ash.

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Post subject: Re: Fender Hendrix Voodoo Guitar AUTHENTICITY HELP
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 2:17 am
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CB91710 wrote:
John Sims wrote:
CB91710 wrote:
....From the edge of the paint line, it looks like the H route was factory, then the S route was done to drop that floor a few 64ths, then only the S area was painted, witnessed by the bleedover of the carbon paint...


That doesn't really make sense. Why would anyone do that?

If the S route was done in the factory but if the final plunge wasn't clean and exacty the same shape as the preceding plunges you would get the uneven edges at the bottom as seen. The S route would then have been painted.

Subsequently someone decided to fit an Hbucker and the H route wasn't as deep as the S route and actually just shy of the original final plunge, hence the rough edge of the original being evident.

I would agree if we assume that the S route is original.

But that would not explain the feathering of the black paint at the junction of the S and H routes.
The carbon paint would not have soaked into the wood to be revealed like that when the H route was cut... that paint was applied, possibly with the H route masked off, after the H route was cut, and the paint wicked along the grain on the surface of the H route.

I might expect to see the carbon paint soak into the grain that far on a basswood or pine body, but not on alder or ash.


The body was pattern routed not CNCed as there are no reference circles.

What you think you see as wicking, or over paint, is an uneven step in the original route.

Your scenario doesn't make sense. Why anyone take an HSS body and route the outline of a SSS cavity in the base, paint all off the cavities except the H cavity and mask out the S outline and just paint that. Having done all that then butcher the cavity to make it look like it needed deeper clearance?

If, in your scenario, this was to make people think a pre CNC HSS body is a Voodoo body there would be little point as all that effort would render no gain. A modified Voodoo body is of no greater value than the original pre CNC HSS...if this were.

As far as I can see this was a Voodoo body. It is now a butchered Voodoo body. I dont think a butchered Voodoo body has any greater credabillity/desirabillity/value than any other body of the period (and probably less than any unbutchered body of similar age).

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Post subject: Re: Fender Hendrix Voodoo Guitar AUTHENTICITY HELP
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 2:21 am
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I agree... the whole thing doesn't make any sense, whether it's a butchered Voodoo, or an HSS that someone tried to make a Voodoo forgery from.

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