Members Jeroen Posted December 12, 2005 Members Share Posted December 12, 2005 A while ago I bought this Flying V: From a distance it may look cool to some of you, but if you take a closer look you can see the thick white painted stripes, sometimes corrected with a black marker... Luckily I got it pretty cheap. But now I want it to be refinished, I know an experienced guy who wants to do it for a very reasonable price. I'm not planning on changing hardware, perhaps the schratchplates, but styles like these I like: What do you think? Any other suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Inspector 71 Posted December 12, 2005 Members Share Posted December 12, 2005 were you going to add binding? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeroen Posted December 12, 2005 Author Members Share Posted December 12, 2005 Originally posted by Inspector 71 were you going to add binding? Only on the body, on the sides of the top.. I want to keep the back and sides of the body black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stanbog Posted December 12, 2005 Members Share Posted December 12, 2005 well, i like both examples you've posted, but you don't know how exactly the wood on your guitar looks like. so, no matter what you decide, i think you should have a plan B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeroen Posted December 12, 2005 Author Members Share Posted December 12, 2005 Originally posted by stanbog well, i like both examples you've posted, but you don't know how exactly the wood on your guitar looks like. so, no matter what you decide, i think you should have a plan B. We're planning to put a small layer of wood on top of the body (how do you call it, veneer?). I expect the wood of the V itself is not to beautiful.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeroen Posted December 12, 2005 Author Members Share Posted December 12, 2005 By the way, you were talking about "both"; the les paul is also a style I like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alchemist Posted December 12, 2005 Members Share Posted December 12, 2005 do a naturalburst flame maple veneer:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FLYING V 83 Posted December 12, 2005 Members Share Posted December 12, 2005 Gibson 1984 model "Flying V 83", made with one of 1500 original 1958 korina bodies found in the Nashville warehouse. They were all painted white (Metallica was hot then) and I got mine for $350 from some teenager who gave up on guitar. Sanded it down and clear-coated it. I added the 2nd tone pot, DZ pups and made my own pickguard & trussrod cover: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dean Medlock Posted December 12, 2005 Members Share Posted December 12, 2005 I had a Faded V that I stripped down and restained...it looked much, much better after I was done with it...even though I've always sucked at anything remotely similar to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zac102 Posted December 12, 2005 Members Share Posted December 12, 2005 I have a similar project to start next week. I'm turning this explorer I picked up cheap(yes, someone did this to a gibson): into something more like this: minus the bigsby of course. I like the Kahler, but if I changed it, I change it to a stoptail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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