nitro frinish

[dani]

Re: nitro frinish

www.guitarmill.com does nitro at a competitve price. i second christian's call on usacg's body/neck and hardware from callaham.

 

[hellatone]

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Did you contact RS yet...I don't know what they charge but they do great work!

i sent them an email -- i'll let you know what they say :fingersx:

 

[the guy who invented fire]

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i sent them an email -- i'll let you know what they say :fingersx:

Do let me know...I was thinking abou calling them today but if you get a price and share then we all know!

Good luck!

 

[hellatone]

Re: nitro frinish

www.guitarmill.com does nitro at a competitve price. i second christian's call on usacg's body/neck and hardware from callaham.

the guitar mill site is pretty impressive -- stuff looks good and price is right -- might be where i end up -- anybody have experience with them? :reporter:

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: nitro frinish

the guitar mill site is pretty impressive -- stuff looks good and price is right -- might be where i end up -- anybody have experience with them? :reporter:

I checked that link too...looked nice and their prices were pretty good but I had actually never heard of them until now

 

[Jeff_H]

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Wow, those are really reasonable prices for nitro. Looks like there may be more projects for me sooner rather than later......

 

[hellatone]

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the guy who sells on ebay under the "reliablefender" handle (his ebay store is called the stratosphere and he apparently sells a lot of bodies) has a couple of guitar mill bodies for sale and says they're great -- fwiw :smokin:

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: nitro frinish

the guy who sells on ebay under the "reliablefender" handle (his ebay store is called the stratosphere and he apparently sells a lot of bodies) has a couple of guitar mill bodies for sale and says they're great -- fwiw :smokin:

Really?!

I thought all his stuff was all Fender...good news either way!

Have you heard back from RS yet?

 

[dani]

Re: nitro frinish

a couple of weeks or months back, a fellow forum bro thought of ordering a body from guitarmill. that's the first time i heard of them. not sure if he really did got one and had it nitro-ed.

edit: pushpin&poetry ordered a 1-pc swamp ash body. https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=79031&highlight=guitar+mill

 

[hellatone]

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:smokin: i sent pushpin&poetry a pm asking about it -- and nope, haven't heard from RS, or from USACG for that matter -- because even if i get the guitar mill body, i'm still a bit nervous about getting a neck from them, since necks aren't standard-issue sort of things -- so i would still get the neck from usacg or warmoth, unless i get some very convincing assurances from guitar mill -- which leads me to the thought that wouldn't it be better to get the neck and the body from the same place at the same time...........?

though i would sort of like to get a real fender neck with the decal already on it which makes it seem more authentic - goofy as that may be

 

[dani]

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i say stick to usacg for wood.

 

[hellatone]

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ok - this just in -- i heard from guitar mill - their necks are from allparts -- and i looked at allparts' site and they don't have what i want (medium v, rosewood board, modern radius, i.e., not 7.5) - and what the hell, if i'm gonna have the neck custom made, i might as well get brazilian for the board, if available. so i think i'll be getting the body and neck from usacg, or maybe warmoth if i see what i want in their off the shelf stuff, and then send it to guitar mill for finishing --

 

[hellatone]

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ok -- the word from RS is $450 to paint the body, and $175 for a vintage tint on the neck. Does this strike anyone else as sort of a lot? nder:

 

[Farkus]

Re: nitro frinish

ok -- the word from RS is $450 to paint the body, and $175 for a vintage tint on the neck. Does this strike anyone else as sort of a lot? nder:

Is that for a solid color finish on the body? Sometimes sunbursts and candy finishes (like candy apple red) cost more.

I don't think the neck price sounds that wacky, but that's not cheap by any stretch, either. Warmoth is charging $105.00 for vintage tint poly ($95 for non-maple fretboards).

 

[Curly]

Re: nitro frinish

ok -- the word from RS is $450 to paint the body, and $175 for a vintage tint on the neck. Does this strike anyone else as sort of a lot? nder:

it's a lot, but not out of line for nitro ... so the question is if your project is worth it. A lot of their projects are probably vintage guitars or high end custom projects.

the other question you need to ask the nitro finishers is how long will it take ... curing time alone is about 6 weeks.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

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ok -- the word from RS is $450 to paint the body, and $175 for a vintage tint on the neck. Does this strike anyone else as sort of a lot? nder:

Seeing that RS does a lot of finih work it must be inline for quite a few guys BUT IMO, that is crazy...maybe if I had a 53 tele that had been painted white with a brush and now needed a refin, but I don't so, thats too high!

 

[danglybanger]

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wow... no way. I could buy a guitar for that :laugh2:

 

[hellatone]

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Is that for a solid color finish on the body? Sometimes sunbursts and candy finishes (like candy apple red) cost more.

I don't think the neck price sounds that wacky, but that's not cheap by any stretch, either. Warmoth is charging $105.00 for vintage tint poly ($95 for non-maple fretboards).

that's for a black-red-yellow burst -- i understand that shooting nitro is harder than poly, but does it really justify charging twice what warmoth would charge for a poly finish? i dunno.... but curly's right - if you want it, and that's what it costs, well then that's what you have to pay -- question is, do you want it that bad.... (wait - i thought the question i have to ask myself is do i feel lucky....)

 

[Jeff_H]

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The body seems "a bit" high, but again not out of line for nitro. The neck is just about what I expeced. Here's the way I look at it. Dawn charged us $400 for the body and $200 for the neck on Seymour's tele, and that was a year ago. I'm sure material cost has gone up a touch, and it's harder and harder to spray nitro commercially.

At most, I think the total price may be $75-100 more that what I would consider decent. However, if RS had come back and said $375 for the body and $175 for the neck it would have been a very decent deal. So, is the project worth the extra $100 to you? It would be to me, to recreate the guitar you had, or to just create the best guitar you can for the $$.

To me, I'd pull the trigger and be done with it, and have it just the way I want it. Life is too short.

 

[kmcguitars]

Re: nitro finish

Re: nitro finish

ok -- the word from RS is $450 to paint the body, and $175 for a vintage tint on the neck. Does this strike anyone else as sort of a lot? nder:

That's a high price,But not completely out of line. You have to understand that shooting Nitro is labor intensive and time consuming. Nitro is Nasty stuff to work with. Even spraying in a well ventilated area with a good mask your still breathing in a lot of crap.:eek13: I consider Nitro finishes to be for Elite or high end projects. So if you want nitro... You have to pay the Piper. A Nitro finish is a specialty item IMO. That's why the price is double a poly finish. Nobody is trying to get rich spraying Nitro. You would be dead from breathing in all the toxins long B4 you could be rolling in the money.:13::chairfall