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billydlight wrote:Subject: Re: 60's Rick 330 reset neck with added binding and crushed pear

Mmm.... crushed pear.... *drool* (_8^(I)

I can't believe you're the first person who called me on that..

I wonder what it tastes like?

Billy, You've got yourself a real beauty there!

plays and sounds as pretty as she looks!

billydlight wrote:plays and sounds as pretty as she looks!

So glad to hear that - it looks nothing short of spectacular! Good call on the 4-knob setup too.

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.

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.

There are exceptions...you see crushed pearl being used every so often between '57 and the standardization in '64.

Really? THAT would be something to see. Please post some pictures, if you have them, JB.

Woodie wrote:Really? THAT would be something to see. Please post some pictures, if you have them, JB.

Bumping this thread to update you, Alan.

I can definitively say that '61s did have crushed pearl inlays, possibly as an early experiment like many others before 1964. In fact, they went through at least three different inlays materials in 1963 alone! It differs a little bit from '64-'72 CPI in that the shell pieces are a little larger, but it's not a huge difference IMO.

These are on my '61 365 "New Capri"

Sold my FG one Collin (AH569), but I still have the MG (AH587)........pretty close to yours

collin wrote:

winston wrote:Nice work gents........ Collin how did you manage to preserve the finish adjacent to the routes for the binding?

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.

I have a photobucket folder documenting it, somewhere....I'll find a link.

Sweet! Great looking, Collin.

dgwguitars wrote:

collin wrote:

winston wrote:Nice work gents........ Collin how did you manage to preserve the finish adjacent to the routes for the binding?

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.

I have a photobucket folder documenting it, somewhere....I'll find a link.

Sweet! Great looking, Collin.

Thanks Larry -- wouldn't look half as great without that nice fingerboard you made me. Sorry I hadn't sent the "completed" photos yet.

Hey Col, I'll trade it back to you for the 61....

billydlight wrote:Hey Col, I'll trade it back to you for the 61....

...and a briefcase of cash? Deal!