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My Historic Makeover Goldtop Is Back!!!!
I finally got my guitar back!! I couldn't be happier with how it turned out!
I started a thread about a month and a half ago asking if any one else who'd had a make over had taken over a year because I was getting concerned with how long it was taking. Now that my guitar is back and looks so good I don't care how long it took It was worth every minute! The guys at Historic Makeovers are great. Kim is the best, and Dave Johnson is a genius. I wanted a guitar that looked like the real deal. Goldtops are the coolest when they've been beat to shit, and he nailed the look I was going for. Along with the package 'A' makeover I have also upgraded pretty much all of the parts on the guitar with more accurate reproduction stuff: *Sheptone Blue Sky PAFs with DMCII covers *Vintage Clone/Montreux pickup rings, pick guard, ABR-1, steel tailpiece studs, top hat knobs, poker chip/knurled nut, jack plate, *Kluson SLSR tuners with Uncle Lou's tips *CTS audio taper pots with Luxe bumbleebees *RetroSpec ABR-1 thumbwheels and posts I got carried away with my camera. I took way too many pics, but I don't think you guys'll mind if I post them will ya?               
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08-29-2009, 05:10 PM
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Re: My Historic Makeover Goldtop Is Back!!!!
That looks great that stinks if took so long but I'm impressed with the finish definetly has the vintage vibe going on
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Re: My Historic Makeover Goldtop Is Back!!!!
I don't normally swear on here, but that is ****ing outstanding!
I'm constantly floored by DJ's work.
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Re: My Historic Makeover Goldtop Is Back!!!!
Wow, that's gorgeous! Congrats! Dave does do some amazing work.
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08-29-2009, 10:25 PM
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Re: My Historic Makeover Goldtop Is Back!!!!
It takes a year because, I hear, Dave whores the guitars out to local bands and let's them beat the crap out of them nearly every night for a year.
 Just kidding, that does look awesome though!
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Re: My Historic Makeover Goldtop Is Back!!!!
How does DJ do the back like that? It looks like he raped it with a logging chain or something... looks good though.
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08-30-2009, 08:39 AM
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Re: My Historic Makeover Goldtop Is Back!!!!
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Gut Ding braucht Weile means, sometimes it's better to wait!!!! outstanding, one the best job's I've ever seen, for shure the best looking GT!!!!!!!!!!!!  can you post a pic of the back of the neck please??? CONGRATULATION 
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wow! That looks great!!
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Thanks for all the nice comments!
I wish that you guys could see this guitar in person. I tried to capture just how good it looks, but the pictures only do it half justice. The color of the top is much better in person. It looks kind of washed out in my pics, but in life it has a really deep amber/greenish thing going on. I'll put a few shots of the neck up the first chance I get. |
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Outstanding!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It looks just amazing.
But i really hope that they take that much time duo to too much guitars to work on and not just one guitar. |
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08-31-2009, 04:51 AM
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Re: My Historic Makeover Goldtop Is Back!!!!
Outrageous!!!!!!! I love it.
nicolasrivera, I think that the most time consuming thing with this kind of job is to let the nitro cure for the the aging/weather checking part. My Tom Bartlett aged '98 R8 has cured for about 3-4 months but it's evidently to early for any checking. I'll put it in the freezer again sometime around Christmas.
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Well that's just stupidly good & very, very realistic - DJ is clearly 'the man' when it comes to GT's.
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I have to change my pants/underwear now.
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