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thanks, Nick. It certainly gives new meaning to a photo finish.

admin wrote:thanks, Nick. It certainly gives new meaning to a photo finish.

Indeed! they can easily be spotted though. If you look at a flamed top like on a Gibson Les Paul, you'll notice the flame looks a bit different when you move the guitar around a bit. fotoflames... always look the exact same.

That's "flip". It is what gives nice grain dimension and it's why I like glossy finishes. Give wood a matte finish, and it looks like Formica®.

Formica???? As in....... "I bought some pink lambswool seat covers Formica yesterday"?

Yeah, I know...... the white van is on its way............

Getting wrapped up on buffing out Graham's latest masterpiece ... This beast, because of the sheer flatness of its surfaces and size, is a real challenge to get p e r f e c t...

Here's the back, following buffing. It's a real brain-teaser trying to read the fine print, upside down and backward, so I flipped it in the third photo...

WHOA!!!! Beautiful, thanks for all your hard work PW. I've never seen a black mirror.......very cool!! Can't wait to get my big buckle on and strum that baby!!

This one?

8mileshigh wrote:WHOA!!!! Beautiful, thanks for all your hard work PW. I've never seen a black mirror.......very cool!! Can't wait to get my big buckle on and strum that baby!!

That's just mean, even if it is your own guitar... I'm thinking that you should play that guitar only while wearing a faux velvet jumpsuit made from the same material as the lining of a vintage Ric case, and with velcro instead of zipper fasteners so that the gorgeous finish is preserved. Either that, or else some sort of outfit stitched together out of diaper cloth-clean diaper cloth, of course.

Velvet Jump Suit!! Ahhh they were a great band!

And with that buckle, you should be a hit.

jingle_jangle wrote:And with that buckle, you should be a hit.

And velcro SCRATCHES.

jingle_jangle wrote:

jingle_jangle wrote:And with that buckle, you should be a hit.

And velcro SCRATCHES.

No, the velcro would be in the inside of the fabric so it would avoid facing outward in any way, and probably have some sort of faux velvet material flap over it, so as to avoid any possiblility of scratching that lovely finish you've just worked so hard polishing to a mirror gloss.

OK, OK ......you guys win.......I'll play it NAKED! .........Happy now?