I finished work on my Epiphone Firebird

[Blazer]

And there have been some changed since the time I took this picture while I was still working on it.


Gone is the pickguard with the pin-up girl sticker since that material I used was prone to cracking and the paint I used to finish it with flaked. It made for a very unattractive look. So I bought some proper pickguard material to replace it with.


Gone also are the black humbucker rings, since the guitar had wider routings than the Humbucker rings could cover up. So I made some myself, from translucent plastic which I spray painted gold from behind, the resulting look is very Gretsch-like. The pots that came with the guitar were dead as doornails so I replaced them with a Master Volume and tone. Which also reflects my preferrence towards Fender guitars. The three screw holes behind the tail piece are silent witnesses of me having installed a Gibson "Maestro" vibrato as an experiment which made the guitar go out of tune by just looking at it. I decided to leave them the way they are, it adds to the vintage look I was going for with this guitar.

The end result though is a very good sounding guitar that keeps turning people's heads whenever I whip it out.

[vklobucar]

Love that!

I am HUGE fan of Firebirds.

I owned a Jackson Pro as well as a 1976 Centenial Gibson Firebird ala Steve Clark.

Both sold long ago........sigh....

[markD]

it looks awesome except for the pickup rings.

[skorb]

not bad except yeah the pup rings have to go and you need to ebonize that badly stained fretboard. did that sustain water damage?

[Blazer]

not bad except yeah the pup rings have to go and you need to ebonize that badly stained fretboard. did that sustain water damage?

Nope, it's the nateral way that fretboard looks and who am I to mess with nature?

[amimbari]

you know I also LOVE FIRE/THUNDERbirds, and yours will certainly turn some heads like they usually do when I bring mine out.....