Washburn N4 redo

[Wattage]

Re: Washburn N4 redo

I ever tell you you are my idol

 

[Ayrton]

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I ever tell you you are my idol

That works because you are mine

 

[LLL]

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What's the opinion on the "Stephens Extended Cutaway"?

 

[Adieu]

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You've grown a lot from your 180 gritting days lol

 

[Ayrton]

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What's the opinion on the "Stephens Extended Cutaway"?

Don't really have a strong opinion either way. I never had a problem with normal heel plates, so I can take it or leave it.

I can tell you it makes fret dressing a bit more challenging

 

[Ayrton]

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All but for some final tweaks, this one is back in action.

I "broke in" the fretboard so it would not look out of place and dropped in a B&B 500XL and SD '59

 

[Ayrton]

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The back

I completely forgot how comfortable these are to play.

 

[Kamanda~SD]

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Incredible as always.

 

[devastone]

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Great work and awesome guitar!

 

[muttznmongrelz]

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Very well done and it looks stellar! Way cool geetar.

 

[jeremy]

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looks great man! heres hoping that its finally stable

 

[kramersteen]

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good work ol mate.

 

[d1dsj]

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Well flipin hell, that looks bang on!

 

[Ayrton]

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Been playing it for a couple days now and it seems fine. I can bottom out the strings with the rod, so it works.

I have been trying hard to get thru so many of these old projects.

 

[metalchurch79]

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Nicely done buddy! What radius did you go with?

 

[Ayrton]

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Nicely done buddy! What radius did you go with?

12", same as stock. I wanted it to remain like factory. I no plan to sell it, but the price of the early "Davies" models have skyrocketed.

 

[metalchurch79]

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Nice, I like a 10-12” myself...
Love the Kahler Steeler trem as well... Im assuming these pics were mid setup because your saddles are a little off... How’s she play?

 

[Ayrton]

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The intonation has been since tweaked, but it was close. I don’t know why, but some guitars get weird.

Plays great! I have the action a little lower than I normally run and I finally got the trem dialed in to return to zero. My guitar taste have drifted a bit snce I went thru several of these, but there is no denying they are great guitars.

 

[Mincer]

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That really looks amazing...thanks for showing the in-process pics. I really love that kind of stuff!

 

[devastone]

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I've had a couple of N4s, no Davies but I hear they are sweet. Had a custom maple neck made for a padauk factory body I picked up, that was an awesome guitar, one that I wish I still had. Looks like the prices on all of those has gone up, at least since I last looked.