Restoration Complete = J1637

[SlasZ]

Awesome job man. You should write a tutorial on how you did it

[pebber]

awesome job Dave, can we hire your service?

[Johnnyryche]

Outstanding job on saving this one! Love the color.

[ken]

You guys have skills. Great work Dave and Mark.

Awesome job! I'll take minty over relic'ed any day.

+1

[fuel0707]

Congrats to you guys for the resurrection! Very nice work, indeed.

[pro-fusion]

Sweet!! That looks amazing.

What I want to know is why someone would have butchered a fine instrument like that in the first place. I can understand experimenting on a Hondo or something, but a SD Jackson????

[Budman68]

So call me stupid, edumecate me...
It started out as a Charvel and ended up as a Jackson,right?

Awesome work.

It was never a Charvel, just a decal-

Great job on a killer guitar. It almost looked as if the body had binding.

It gives that appearance but it was originally a metallic snow white, then topcoated with a charcoal or black color, then top coated again with a very crappy white paint...just sad. I came REAL close to putting binding on the top (I love body binding on a tele) but then kept my head straight and restored it to how it was originally... lol!

awesome job, what a project.
who exactly did the paint ? i'm looking around for someone to paint a body or two for me, would like to know who has had good experiences with who.

That would be Mark (mm2002)

There is at least one USA Charvel neck thru, but the J serial would make this one a Jackson...

Yep, that was a strat shaped body with a neckthrough strathead, correct? I believe Lynn Ellsworth is in a newspaper clipping holding the blank which is floating around somewhere here..lol! (Not the blank, the article lol!)

great job looks killer how long does something like that take.

good question, I'm thinking 30 hours not including marks paint work. But I did this off and on so it's truly hard to say.

Thanks Dave, it was a pleasure to do the refin on this one. I too love bringing these things back to life. You're right about the paint too, that color just can't be photographed! For those interested, I used GM code 10 white chromabase, and added a smidgen of course aluminum mixing base. And of course, several coats of urethane clear.
I will have to say, though, when Dave sent it to me I had never seen the "before" pics. He did a fantabulous job on the new binding and re-fret. It looked better than many factory jobs I've seen.

Thanks so much, Mark..

Awesome job Mark and Dave!

Now that is one hell of a restoration indeed!

Dave, if you don't mind me asking, where did you find it originally?

It was actually on ebay for a grand or some such nonsense and it never sold so I talked him down quite a bit....

That really came out nice Dave. I'd love to know how it got in such a sorry condition before you rescued it.

I actually would not like to know- lol!

Awesome job man. You should write a tutorial on how you did it

Well, I did one for the forum awhile back that went into a lot more detail as can be found here:

http://www.jcfonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32848

awesome job Dave, can we hire your service?

Thanks, Peter, but I like to do this for fun, if it becomes a "must do" situation, there's no fun in it anymore..

[Budman68]

Sweet!! That looks amazing.

What I want to know is why someone would have butchered a fine instrument like that in the first place. I can understand experimenting on a Hondo or something, but a SD Jackson????

Hmmmm......insanity maybe?

[destructin_od]

Fuck the mojo ! This looks great!

[fuel0707]

Congrats to you guys for the resurrection! Very nice work, indeed.

[toejam]

Great job. Love the pearl white.

[xbolt]

That took some courage!

Great save

[Nazgul]

Nice job!

Is the San Dimas one of those decals that were sold at best-decals.com? Or a NOS part from Jackson? Or something else?

[Hellraiser6502]

Amazing job Dave!! I remember when you originally posted pics of it and thinking "ewwww!"

Looks fantastic now.

[sully]

Fuck the mojo ! This looks great!

that wasn't mojo, that was overt abuse in those "before" pix. great job, dave and mark!

sully