Oh lawd, I think he's officially caught the most severe form of the bug; the "I don't care how close I've gotten in the past, I want to do it again!" strain



Looking wonderful so far; I can see that you're using steve's build as a reference for black/white tape; good move there. Just practice relicing with a blade before you decide to spray, because I've messed up some bodies that I've tried to relic with a blade.

Go all out!

Go Johnny go!!! I would use the old schallers, will give it that mojo on that beak neck u are using, witch I assume ur gonna relic? Tuners will match also match the old beat up hunk of junk body! !!lol can't wait to watch this brother

Awesome! Looking great so far! I'm actually partial to the newer Schaller minis if you do the beak as I think Ed's had those on his beak at the time. If you do the strat neck, I'd go with the older ones. Just my 2 cents

Thanks for the input nighto5150! I should ask Scott Smith at Musikraft what kind of tuner holes were drilled in the back of the original. When I ordered my neck he told me he actually had the real neck in possesion for a short time. Said it was a wider flatter profile neck, a thin D profile and that's what I had done. I really like that feel as I had that on my Art series I built.

Very excellent. The guy who purchased Ed's original took front pics only. I wish he took rear pics as well. Unless someone has those I'd love to see em. Maybe Scott at MK has them.

Hmmm... I have a very good feeling about this one.

Everytime I see your signature while on the site I have to make sure my wife is not behind me..or else she would be like what are you looking at!!

I'm mounting a petition right here right now: QGF, do NOT take down your signature

heeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre'ssssss JOHNNY! awesome to see your new build in progress! Great looking body! Scott at MK is great, really helped on my neck too. I know you're asking for eyes on this, so I hope you don't mind if I point out a couple of spots that struck me as potentially bugging you later. I only have mine as a reference of course, so I tried to look back and remember some trouble spots I had once I shot white:
-on the front, you may want to make the 'wingtip' a bit sharper? (pink mark)
-I would rag that edge a little bit (blue mark), it may bug you later that it's 'too black'. better to have too much white that you can relic down to the shape you want, if that makes sense.
-on the back, same thing (pink marks) I'd worry that that would end up 'too black'. again, better to make it too small and nail it with a knife after.
Glad you got the tummy cut white bit right (up top), I screwed that up on mine and had to adjust after, real pain.

Great job taping so far!!!! Hope you don't mind the second opinion on this. Your taping looks great and puts you in great shape to destroy the thing once the white is on. Nice!