billydlight wrote:Subject: Re: 60's Rick 330 reset neck with added binding and crushed pear
Mmm.... crushed pear.... *drool* (_8^(I)
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billydlight wrote:Subject: Re: 60's Rick 330 reset neck with added binding and crushed pear
So glad to hear that - it looks nothing short of spectacular! Good call on the 4-knob setup too.billydlight wrote:plays and sounds as pretty as she looks!
There are exceptions...you see crushed pearl being used every so often between '57 and the standardization in '64.Woodie wrote:Beautiful guitar, no question. Not to be nit-picky, but crushed pearl would not have been used in '61, or with a 4-knob setup. Still a beaut, tho.
Bumping this thread to update you, Alan.Woodie wrote:Really? THAT would be something to see. Please post some pictures, if you have them, JB.
Sweet! Great looking, Collin.collin wrote:I didn't have a table router set up at the time, so Larry routed the binding channels carefully and I bound it with full masking of the adjacent finish. Spent way too many hours carefully binding it, and spot amber finishing on the binding only.winston wrote:Nice work gents........ Collin how did you manage to preserve the finish adjacent to the routes for the binding?
I have a photobucket folder documenting it, somewhere....I'll find a link.
dgwguitars wrote:Sweet! Great looking, Collin.collin wrote:I didn't have a table router set up at the time, so Larry routed the binding channels carefully and I bound it with full masking of the adjacent finish. Spent way too many hours carefully binding it, and spot amber finishing on the binding only.winston wrote:Nice work gents........ Collin how did you manage to preserve the finish adjacent to the routes for the binding?
I have a photobucket folder documenting it, somewhere....I'll find a link.
...and a briefcase of cash? Deal!billydlight wrote:Hey Col, I'll trade it back to you for the 61....