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Ok, so I think you all know Tommy at USACG has talked with me about hiring me, and I met a dude who works for floyd who informed me that they are negotiating a contract to make the USA BC Rich line, and if that is the case, they will need more people, and he was gonna give floyd my name! Hope all goes well with one of these.

how did you mange not to getoverspray?

Wal mart has a nice array of auto polishes.

I'm 22 and she looks too youn to me too. Is she even 18?

Well, the routes look a bit sloppy to me, and I'd really suggest getting a pickguard from Warmoth. Looks fine, but there's some things that bother me. Yes, they'll be hidden, but I think you could do better. Not bad tho.

That's if you order UPS air, I got my GNX1 from Musicians Friend and they had the free shipping and it stated 2-5 days UPS Ground and when I checked on the UPS site the deliver time is up to 4 weeks, and that's how long it took, 3 weeks 5 days. And this is on Continental USA, imagine from Hawaii. I will always use USPS, insured and certified so that I know the date it was recieved. It will still be cheaper than UPS. Bullshit. USPS is only cheaper for small items, and they never have exact dates of delivery. UPS is THE ONLY WAY I would even consider shipping a small item. Groung takes anywhere from 2-7 days in the lower 48, and insurance is free. Even uninsured USPS stuff is at least twice the price.

It is built with the top half hollowed out ala thinline.

Wher to find?

Looks great, but OMG, the weight has to kill!

Maye he'll bid on it/ buy her back again.

Seriously, how cool are they, what is a street price? What magnets are used?

Any news?

bump

Bump.

if it is a set neck, fill and re route the truss rod channel, then put in a 2 way

If the bridge is too high, you angle is too steep, ot the route isnt deep enough. However, is it the top of the bridge or the thumbwheels, or what that is 13/16"?`

A cedar body for an electric scares me.

How bout I just dig out the vynl. I got some Ice Pick. Really, I have 2 more teles comin did you use the stain and sand back to get to that colour black ? or is that just one or 2 coats of the stain just applied?? Its just LMI's black mixed strong Refreshments MP3 Down load it. It may take some time, but the tele tone is worth it I think. PS, I'll pick up some Roy.

When I did mine, I just glued the pieces on top. Dubbed the Death Machine by my X fiance

A testament of how big a KISS fan I am: "The KISS boys were always good for a challenge or two. Rather than get wrapped up in the minutiae of fret crown shapes and potentiometer tapers, Paul Stanley knew what the important issues were - like should the pickguard be chrome plated or polished stainless. "Paul's legendary Mirror Ball Iceman is a perfect example of how to push the envelope of guitar technology. It started with a phone call from Paul about his idea to have a guitar that resembled a shattered mirror. His exact words, if I recall, were, "I want it to look like somebody hit a mirrored guitar with a hammer right on the pickups." "It sounded easy enough. I got some 1/8" mirror, cut it into the shape of an Iceman and smacked it in the pickup area with a ham- mer. What I ended up with was about 10,000 bits of mirror dust where the hammer hit and three other pieces. This was obviously not going to work. "I was going to have to cut each piece to look like it was shattered. I went out and got a lot more 1/8 mirror and a handful of glass cutters. Starting with one piece of mirror cut into the shape of Paul's guitar, I thought of drawing a plan and transferring it to the mirror. In the end, I decided to wing it and started to cut out pieces that I thought looked cool. It took a couple of days to do this and as I went around the guitar, I started to get the hang of it. When it was finished, I was glad to still have five fingers on each hand." "As it turned out, cutting the mirror was the easy part. While I was doing the mirror, my trusty partner in crime at Ibanez, Jim Heffner. was routing a quarter-inch out of the top of one of Paul's guitars. That's right, the mirrors were a retrofit. Jim left the abalonoid binding around the top and the plan was to slap some epoxy in there and set the mirrors into it. "We routed out twice the thickness of the mirror so we could set each piece at a slightly different angle, Paul's stage concept was to hit the guitar with a Super Trooper spot light and have rays of light shooting out from the guitar at all angles like a mirror ball. We figured a 5 to 15 degree difference between adjoining pieces would do it." "I wrapped dowels with masking tape to keep all the holes from clogging with epoxy and went to town. Since the Iceman has a slightly arched top, I had to re-cut some of the mirror to better fit the curve of the top. This part was tedious and trying to keep ahead of the epoxy cure was not always successful, but all the pieces seemed to fit pretty well". ''Late that night, with all the mirrors in place, Jim and I took the axe outside and gave it a test run in the headlights of my pickup truck. Yup, it worked. Shards of light were shooting off every which way. The only problem was that because the mirrors were set at angles to each other, the joints were razor sharp. You could make mountains of tasty cole slaw with this Veg-O-Caster." "I was prepared to deal with this by flowing a clear polyurethane finish over the mirrors so the surface would be nice and smooth and safe. Next morning, I mixed up the polyurethane and poured it on. I went about my business for a few hours and when I went back to the shop to check it, my stomach knotted. It was drying cloudy and ruining the whole mirror effect. ****! Now what?" "Before it got rock hard, I took a chisel and began to scrape the finish off. Fortunately, glass doesn't hold finish very well, and by dinner time I had removed nearly all the finish. The finish wouldn't come out from between the pieces, but that proved to be the solution to the problem." " I filled all the joints with polyurethane, but that still left sharp edges. I ended up using a small sanding wheel on a Dremel tool to grind each mirror joint smooth, back filling with polyurethane as needed. This took forever, but it did the trick." "All that remained was to get some glass drill bits and to mount all the pickups and hardware. Paul was anxious to give it a go and damage some corneas as well as some eardrums. When I finally saw it on stage with about a million candlepower blasting into it, the vision was pretty impressive." "Of all the custom guitars we did this one sticks in my mind mainly because I found some old photos to jog my failing memory. The fact that it required a tremendous amount of effort to make and contributed virtually nothing to the universe of guitar technology will endear it to me forever." Reprinted from Vintage Guitar Magazine, September, 1994.

And Paulhimself admitted to slicing his hand open at a sound check!

Actually, its a righty neck reversed

Hows about this?

Well, I do have 2 more teles comin.....

Whick Wilky do ya have?