Twinfan's going custom built again... (review and clip now added!)

[WezV]

and off it goes for some paint!! 

[Twinfan]

Awesome!

How long until it's back???

[WezV]

i hope within 4 weeks, although its sometimes hard to predict accurately.  this is the patience breaking time i'm afraid... a long wait without my usual updates!

[Twinfan]

No problem - it'll give me chance to sell the Ibanez RG to get the cash I'll be paying you with!

[dave_mc]

haha, half of me's going, "awesome, that paint job will be great", but the other half is saying, "but it looks so nice the way it is"...

[WezV]

nah, better with some paint i think. 

now if we had gone for mahogany body or rosewood fretboard it would have looked awesome natural - just that bit more contrast between the maple neck and body wood makes loads of difference

[GuiTony]

I'm not normally a paint-fan - I prefer to see the natural wood colour & grain.

But having seen the mock-ups of the blue sparkle posted earlier, and become the fortunate owner of another Mike-painted, Wez-built guitar ... I think that one's going to look much better painted.

So, what's next Wez?

[WezV]

a few interesting things to keep me busy during summer.

* next one back from mike is a lapsteel that is getting painted in an off white pearloid effect to emulate the look of an old accordian .  its the one with the bigsby palm pedal i have shown off in its raw state before

* I need to finish the fretwork on my charity telecaster and add a headstock logo so i can get that moving foward

* i am currently focused on a through neck, fretless bass thats kind of an evolved EB0/LPJ design - still very classic and more like gibson should have made them (in my opinion, obviously) 

* there is going to be a 14" scale 12 string mando guitar in a mini SG shape,its started but  not very far along

*just about to start something PRSish which should be interesting

*I also have the old handmade explorer and a 70's strat project  taking me down the vintage restoration path a bit more

loads of other ongoing projects too - but these are the ones with timeframes!

[Twinfan]

Do all those have buyers Wez?  Or are they experiments for you?

[WezV]

all spoken for - some are experiments for me with buyers, which is even better ;)

[dave_mc]

nah, better with some paint i think. 

now if we had gone for mahogany body or rosewood fretboard it would have looked awesome natural - just that bit more contrast between the maple neck and body wood makes loads of difference

yeah, i guess...

[dheim]

It's almost tempting to leave it natural all over.  Almost.  But I have one like that already  ;)

don't waste that beautiful wood grain... transparent blue would be great!

[dheim]

completely off-topic, but TF said somewhere that he tried to listen to opeth and he couldn't dig the vocals...
this will help you greatly. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgpSJkh5KtY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tETiyedyML8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtvF33SV8x0&feature=related

[WezV]

don't waste that beautiful wood grain... transparent blue would be great!

well i dont think TF is gonna let anyone spray the PRS spangly blue!!!

as for the esquire - it was going to be totally spangly blue, we decided to leave the back and sides natural because of the wood. 

[Twinfan]

Too true, the PRS ain't being touched!

Wez and I talked about transparent blue on the back and sides, but we've gone with natural as a great contrast to the blue sparkle top.