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Custom
Mini '61 SG Jr.
Fender/Gibson
Combo
Mike's
Kustom
Kramer
Custom
TeleBlaster
Les
Paul Custom Deluxe
Guild
Casino ??
Custom
Music Man Silhouette
Count
Chocula
The
Cornflake Box Axe
Fairport
with the Cornflake Axe
Warmoth
Custom
Many
Clamps
Doc
Custom 5 String Bass
The
Yellow Bird
Black
Tele
Telecaster
Elite
Performance/Chandler
Custom
Three
Little Pigs
Gibson
SG Standard
"Doc"
Custom
The
"Eddie"
"Doc"
Custom Teardrop
Martin
018 Koa
Look
Ma ~ No Frets !
Yo!
Dude Looks Like a Lady!
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"FENSON LesCaster"
Yeah baby! ... 
I really dug this project.
A
Fender neck on a Gibson body.
In the words of Baron Von Frankenstein:
"IT'S ALIVE!!!".
What player hasn't had this passing or even desirous thought??
It is a full 25 1/2" scale flame maple neck set into the mahogany
DC Les
Paul body. Once we had it laid out, the longer scale neck with the
full-sized
Strat-style head looked real lanky and ugly on the comparatively
smaller-than-a-Strat LP Special-style body. Like something of a
"Theme
From an Imaginary Import"..... I called the customer and
recommended
we opt for my "down-sized" 4 & 2 Strat-style headstock. On
paper it looked
like the way to go and the final product speaks for itself - what
language, I'm
not sure, but it's a sexy voice!
To keep the job "affordable", we had to cut the neck off and route the stump
from the mortise joint. It would have been nice to save the neck, but these
have a thin and tight joint that would have allowed too much steam and heat
into the area, causing a white haze in the black paint surrounding the joint.
That would have required refinishing the body, near doubling the price.
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