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The Casino arrived safely

my first impressions:
not bad for the €€€
no sharp fretends
no visible faults by now

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I have to admit that I like black on black bodies with maple necks. One of these days I may have to build another Tele like that.
 
Oddly enough I was all about black guitars in the 70s. After I got the Lester, I assembled this thing around 1980. I quite disliked it eventually - too heavy with all of that brass which was the thing to get then. Heavy ash - the thing weighs as much as my Lester.

Did not have a identifiable Strat sound even with the later addition of Seymour Duncan SSL-1s. Those are the Schecter pickups Ritchie Blackmore was using at that time.

A friend up the street had begun spray painting cars. He leaped at the chance to spray it. I just bought the nitro. The stripes were my idea and he pulled them off well enough. He did a fine job.

No more black after this, as I bought a Martin D-16GT in 2003 I fell in love with woodgrain. Transparent finishes from then on.


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