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Gibson Ripper rescue


neepheid
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It's finished. I'd love to share a photograph with BC but I can't because I'm pretty sure if I fire a camera at it, the headstock'll fall off. Y'know, because it's a Gibson and they're well known for neck dive and spontaneous headstock detachment syndrome.

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[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1433111800' post='2788017']
It's finished. I'd love to share a photograph with BC but I can't because I'm pretty sure if I fire a camera at it, the headstock'll fall off. Y'know, because it's a Gibson and they're well known for neck dive and spontaneous headstock detachment syndrome.
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You have a point, do us a drawing instead?

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OK, that's enough poorly targeted passive aggressiveness, point (to BC at large) made, so here it is:




The phone camera does not understand how deeply cherry red it's turned out - it's not as bright red and it's definitely more translucent than these pics suggest. Will update when I can get a proper camera pointed at it.

All hail Rich/Ou7shined - the finish is absolutely stunning and the fretboard rescue miraculous considering the butchered/dehydrated state it arrived in. I helped! ;)

I played it at a gig on Saturday and I enjoyed rock solid tuning all set, felt great in the hands and according to my spies in the audience it was sounding great too.

There are a couple of wee minor things still to sort. I think I got the wrong taper for the tone/mid pots as all the effect is concentrated in the last 20% or so of the pot rotation so I might replace them (I believe I have linear ones, according to the spares sheet for the Ripper I saw should be log/audio). I have no numbered switch plate for the rotary switch - a minor cosmetic detail but they're pretty rare and when they do pop up people ask stupid money for them (one just now wants £150 for one along with a chicken head knob - preposterous!). I'm using regular scale length strings and the A string can't quite handle being strung through the body so it's top loaded for now.

But apart from that, it's pretty damn sweet. I feel even better about this one than when we finished the Victory, mostly because of where we started from this time. To save you looking back, this was how it started:



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I pointed a proper camera at the Ripper tonight (my trusty old Canon Powershot A40 - 2MP, 13 years old!) and took some no flash shots. No tripod, so they're slightly blurry but I feel these far more accurately reflect the colour of the finish.

[IMG]http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/ripper/20150601/01_all.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/ripper/20150601/02_head.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/ripper/20150601/03_back_all.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/ripper/20150601/04_all_angle1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/ripper/20150601/05_body.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/ripper/20150601/06_back_angle.jpg[/IMG]

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Lovely.

I have the same problem taking photos of my red jobs....whatever you try to do with the white or colour balance, it always comes out too scarlet. I think you've done well to get a shot that is fairly representative.

Fantastic bass...

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