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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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1957 Surf Green
1957 Fender Surf Green Nitrocellulose Color Match
This customer wanted his 2015 American Standard bass to be re born as a 57 Surf Green Jazz Bass. So I stripped the entire instrument down to the wood. and started there. Added a acid etched control plate and a Bad Ass III bridge. The tuners are Gotoh as per his request. The neck was refinished in my dirty tobacco stain and oiled. The decals are actual gold leaf and are in bedded under the hand oiled finish. Pickguard is also reliced and a set of Tom Brantley pickups added for good measure. It turned out to be a show stopper for sure. Many comments on the color and paint job.
1957 surf green
Finishing / Custom Colors
Know far and wide as the most used instrument lacquer, Nitrocellulose offers the best tone characteristics and has the ability to be aged. It is very hard to get and even harder to get color matching. Rsm offers full custom nitro colors so choose your rainbow.
dirty tobacco
Fender Logo
The gold leaf logo was selected by the customer. It is underneath 20 coats of hand oiled finish. The proprietary dirty tobacco stain really sets it off.
Rsm Logo / Gotoh Tuners
The Gotoh tuners are tarnished not acid etched. This is a totally different process still using acid but as a vapor. The Rsm logo is also underneath the hand oiled finish
Before
Right down to the wood.
The only way to do this right is to strip it down to the bare wood.
Both Sides
Really nice grain in this body.
Surface Prep
The surface has to be absolutely perfect to shoot nitro. The nitor will show any flaw at all.
First Coat of Color
Looks very uniform but takes many light coats to get here.
Finished and ready to wire.
Copper shielding is always the way to go. No compromises. We are building a instrument that has to play as good as it looks and sound even better.
Oiled Fender Logo
Nothing like hanging your guitar neck from the shower stall. Logo is installed and oil is being applied coat by coat until perfection.
Oiled Rsm Logo
Always sign your work.
Finished
Wow...
This is one of the projects that you spend hours just admiring. It turned out better than I thought I could ever do it and the customer was blown away. Win Win.
One more time
Still killer
Even the back of it keeps your attention. Dirty tobacco neck really stands out. Plays great and sounds killer.
enjoy the show
2015 American Standard upgrade
If you looked at this in person you would not be able to tell what the bass started out as. It clearly went through a major conversion from this to that. Every little detail was taken care of and it shows. Very proud of the way this turned out. My customer was so blown away he wanted to do another one in Fiesta Red. Why not.