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Location: Upper Left USA | Here's another installment for the BFLG. Still a work in progress but it plays now.
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | Now that is a great looking guitar. Is that a UKll Neck. Love the body through strings, and the wood grain is so beautiful. :) |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Nicely done, Mike!
Volume, no tone?
And, if I may, can you find a knob that matches the pup ring? Or, just a chrome Tele knob would probably suffice.
(Uh-huh, Square, I got yer aesthetics right here, Bucko!) |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Preacher Neck and the button was just put in place. A Koa/Maple knob will (or two) will end up there.
Always listening Chris... sometimes short on parts though. |
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | Mike will this be a guitar you are going to raffle off or are you going to sell it or just plan on keeping it? That is one stunning guitar. If it happens to be a raffle I would like to get in on it somehow. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | TBD |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by MWoody:
Preacher Neck I remember dots on my preacher. |
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Location: GA USA | Preacher Deluxe would have the abalone bar inlay. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by Captain Lovehandles:
Preacher Deluxe would have the abalone bar inlay. It would also be bound, this one is an odd duck |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Missing link?
With the Parts bin treasures and the connections we have here there should be no surprises... |
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Location: Indiana | Really stunning, Mike.
If you put an ea-68 bridge with an RMC pickup system on that, it'd be one of my fantasy projects.
Never imagined a top that pretty though... |
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Location: Chicago | I'm a bit dense on this custom stuff: you MADE that? What is the wood, and what does the neck look like? I assume that there was an original (Viper?) body? .... Wow |
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Location: Upper Left USA | This should explain it a little.
Hollowbody Viper
The body is Mahogany sides, Spalted Maple top and Maple back. A little Walnut here and there.
Had a Preacher Deluxe Neck and a little help from my friends.
I took similar licence and made a Deacon in the same way.
The guitar weighs in at about 4 lbs. |
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Location: SoCal | What did you ever do with that deep THead body you had? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Mike, 4 pounds? Really? That would make it super lightweight. I would guess it to be at least 6 pounds and perhaps even closer to 7 with its mostly solid body. My lightest guitar is the Hamer Improv, a small archtop with minimal electronics at 4.8 pounds. My chambered Vipers, which yours appears to closely resemble, are 6.8 pounds. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "What did you ever do with that deep THead body you had?"
It's on the shelf. Has more historical value than parts donor aptitude. |
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Location: Chicago | Wow, the Deacon is really nice. I always like that body-shape. Funny that it did not "catch on" in a more mainstream way.... |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
My chambered Vipers, which yours appears to closely resemble, are 6.8 pounds. Chambered Vipers? As in the old solid-body Vipers, but chambered? Custom ordered? Aftermarket modified? Woody Creations? Do tell...
As close as I can weigh them at the moment, my standard solid-body Viper weighs around 8 pounds, the Urelite one is about 6 pounds.... (Although I hear that with the right strap, they're virtually weightless anyway.) ;) |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by standing:
Chambered Vipers? As in the old solid-body Vipers, but chambered? Custom ordered? Aftermarket modified? Woody Creations? Do tell...
Standing, I'm referring to the EA-63/68 chambered-bodied peizoelectric models which are sometimes referred to Vipers. The older solid Vipers are very heavy. My ash Viper III is the heaviest guitar I own at 9 pounds 13 ounces. |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
Originally posted by standing:
Chambered Vipers? As in the old solid-body Vipers, but chambered? Custom ordered? Aftermarket modified? Woody Creations? Do tell...
Standing, I'm referring to the EA-63/68 chambered-bodied peizoelectric models which are sometimes referred to Vipers. The older solid Vipers are very heavy. My ash Viper III is the heaviest guitar I own at 9 pounds 13 ounces. |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
Originally posted by standing:
Chambered Vipers? As in the old solid-body Vipers, but chambered? Custom ordered? Aftermarket modified? Woody Creations? Do tell...
Standing, I'm referring to the EA-63/68 chambered-bodied peizoelectric models which are sometimes referred to Vipers. The older solid Vipers are very heavy. My ash Viper III is the heaviest guitar I own at 9 pounds 13 ounces. |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
Originally posted by standing:
Chambered Vipers? As in the old solid-body Vipers, but chambered? Custom ordered? Aftermarket modified? Woody Creations? Do tell...
Standing, I'm referring to the EA-63/68 chambered-bodied peizoelectric models which are sometimes referred to Vipers. The older solid Vipers are very heavy. My ash Viper III is the heaviest guitar I own at 9 pounds 13 ounces.
I knew those were also called Vipers, but I didn't realize they were chambered, I thought they were completely hollow. And yes, the solid-bodied Vipers are on the heavy side, that's why I was curious if you'd somehow gotten your hands on a chambered version. That would be cool, if they existed... ;-) |
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Location: Texas | Sorry for the multi-posts…I should know better than to try to post from my phone, it has a mind of its own… by the time I tried to fix it, I couldn't edit any of them anymore…
We now return you to the original topic; Woody's very cool Viper… |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Here's a photo of Rick at the factory holding a chambered Viper body.
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Location: Texas | Based only on appearance, I assumed they were lyrachord-backed. Were the backs sprayed with bowl-paint or something? I saw Jonmark's photo of his with the paint removed, it looks amazing…
Now I better understand the appeal of the EA Vipers… thanks!
It looks like the EA-Vipers are similar in shape but larger than the solid-body Vipers, so therefore, the Woody Viper above is based on the smaller solid-body Viper shape, but hollow, correct? That is very cool. |
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