This Guitar Collection Is Begging for a Red L-5CES

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[Stringswinger]

Kiuller deal on a bespoke guitar. May she inspire your playing for many years to come!

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Spacer to make the fingerrest parallel with the strings rather than parallel with the tops of the pickup surrounds.

Strings (green) and fingerrest (red) parallel. This really improves playability as I need to anchor my fingers of the picking hand.

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I was able to get the finish to re-adhere on the neck. Retarder did not work, as the lacquer is pretty thick.

What did work was lacquer thinner. Took about 2 hours of work. Dabbing the thinner to keep it wet. What happened it had to practically turn it to jello at which point it did buckle and become wavy. It did all stick down, however.

Now I'm sanding and adding some layers of clear to fill any valleys.

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I'll post all the pictures of the process once it is finished. Because I'm using lacquer, this will take some time; no hurry here.

[Bob_Ross]

2000s ES335

Does your 335 have gold hardware, or is it just weird lighting in that photo?

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Does your 335 have gold hardware, or is it just weird lighting in that photo?

Good question. The lighting makes it look that way, it has Nickel hardware.

Only the Howard Roberts and the ES-175 are gold (and now L5 too).

In the way back is a 1976 Les Paul Custom. Its not really red, more maroon, but it also has nickel hardware instead of the usual gold seen on most Les Paul Customs.