Woo hoo... the guitar gods must be smiling at me I have an Avenger 310 sat on the workbench beside the AV395 so there's my next project; a big thank you to Don, who was sending me the tools to do a small job on a Westone stringlock, when this whacking great box arrives on the doorstep!!
The guitar is in a tatty state, but it's all there and has an MMK45 up front; my feeling is that it will scrub up quite nicely with minimal effort.... the machine heads are rooted and I have a set of Westone Pantera machines which I may whack in, but I may also get a set to directly replace the ones that came off.
Now, I'm canvassing opinions on the finish; what do you lads think I should do with it? I'm leaning towards a solid finish perhaps a blueburst - blue over silver - or, and I'm leaning hard this way, an ANZAC finish of some sort. For those not Aussie or Kiwi, this name conjures up some pretty serious collective memories and given that I'm a NZer and Don's an Aussie, it seems a way forward. My father flew fighters in the South West Pacific during WWII with the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and had quite a lot to do with the Australian Army and Air Force in theatre, so there's that going on as well... it'd have to be tasteful and non-garish to work, I reckon...
Anyway.... what can you guys come up with??
Here we go; on the bench with it's cobber...
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u66/ ... C_0039.jpgBody, in reasonable if not spectacular nick..
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u66/ ... C_0040.jpg... those machines are buggered...
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u66/ ... C_0041.jpg... fretboard is a little sad..
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u66/ ... C_0042.jpgWoo hoo... barrel saddles!!
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u66/ ... C_0043.jpgI dig the alloy backplate!
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u66/ ... C_0044.jpgGutted!!
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u66/ ... C_0045.jpgThat shim was under the nut, is aluminium and .064mm thick!
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u66/ ... C_0046.jpgSorry about the links; there's something weird going on with Photobucket and I can't post the photos like I normally would....