chancey77

Sweet!!! Thanks:) ya I should say Tele:) hahahaha

Ok bib done! He decided no pouch.... Kept simple and all mounted up:)

THE TRAIL BLAZER is built by Chancey77 and Scott Morgan (Morgan Guitars)American guitar luthier. Wood was hand chosen for tonal superior qualities, and hand carved by a Retired Fender Body maker.Built based off the ORIGINAL and 1st made Telecasters it has been set up as a Esquire but additional routing for Neck Pick up has been made...it will be a very easy solution if you wanted to add a neck pick up down the road; but do to our hardcore love of the 1st Fender Tele we have stayed true to its original specs but with modern upgrades already made for a real guitar players desires. Golden Age Vintage Pickup, Compensated Saddles ,Pull off fender ashtray,Gotoh Vintage tuners 9.5 neck radius with med jumbo frets,Bone Nut,10 coats of Danish Oil and Beeswax,Custom Leather Carved Pickguard by Chancey77 Custom Leather. This Guitar Has Been Set Up! Here is the Low Down on the electronics and Set Up; String gauges are 11-14-18-28-38-50 Dunlop 6105 fret wire. Switch is wired to traditional Esquire specs. Full forward enables volume control with a preset treble roll off (via two .05uF ceramic capacitors, and one 3.3k resistor), middle position enables volume and tone controls (via one .047uF Sprague Orange Drop capacitor), and full back enables volume control only with a tone circuit bypass. 900€ or $1200 us dollars PLUS SHIPPING

Welcome Mark! Let the hammers fall!

This was Carved by Nicholas Harichy in the 1950s...just some leather Guitar History for ya to look at:) It is said that the pin up is supposed to be of Conway's First wife. This guitar was just auctioned at Heritage Auctions this last November. This is one of my favorite pieces of leather guitar history and as you can see it was heavily played by Conway through the 1970s the patina is just great!

THAT LOOOKS SO SWEET!!!!!! I LOVE THE TURQUOISE!

Hahahaha that is awesome!!

Hahaha you got that right!!! I remember my mom parking the van on a rattle snake near our home in Valrico on a country road..... The snake was as long as the road was wide! Those suckers in Florida can grow huge!!!! She got out with a shovel lopped off its head and put it in the van and took it home for diner:) ahhhhh those where the days!

Well that is it in all its wanted simplicity... Some textures with dyes and a bit darker then I imagined but hey it is time to move on:)

oh I know...pesky critters....looks like your from Florida too, awesome! I spent a lot of time in the swamps and always had a bigger concern for water moccasins than rattlers, and usually with rattlers they let you know that you are in their space...Tall work boots and jeans and always leather gloves when doing clearing is my suggestion. Walk around the area you are clearing with a stick and check out any holes and rocks for snakes before you start work with any machinery. If you do find a rattle snake kill it! Then make some stew:)

The paste is much better than the gels. And having the right applicator of Wool scraps will help as well...

I have been thinking about this all morning thanks hahahahaha Waiting in some folks that make leather armor to speak up:)

More Tampa people!!! Awesome!! I am originally from St. Cloud Valrico area of Brandon:) welcome!!!

Are these for your legs or the cats:) I have been thinking of something similar cause I am From Florida and we have tons of snakes there!! I would think that a 9-10 oz leather that is worn tight would be thick enough but I wouldn't like to be the tester:) you could always sandwich some glued in carbon fiber in a couple layers between 2 layers of 9-10 oz and I would think that would be way more then enough..... Just my thoughts and opinion on it.. I would wet mold these to the shape of my legs while the carbon fiber dries so working fast would be the key. Maybe use rivits to speed the process then sew them up and add buckles after the project has dried. Just my ideas about it:)

Top notch as ALWAYS!!!

I know slave driver! Hahaha Got to get the tank pouch done...

Thanks everyone!!! Y'all have really been a huge help! As always and no I am not surprised:) hahahah Ya I tried to take the advise to layback on the matting and I got an email from the client after showing hi the difference between inverted and more traditional 3d Western leafs and he chose .......insert drum roll......... The inverted one:) cool! He liked the colors a lot as well and after spending about an hour today with the airbrush on some scraps I got the hang of it pretty fast. I am ready to rock out some new stuff and I very excited of the new possibilities! So thanks!!! A MILLION FOLKS!! I will post up a picture of it here when the pickguard is all done. So now that he chose the inverted style should I Matt some more in the edges with the checkered pear shader? Or just bevel the leaf ends down??? And add the textures with the dyes? Opinions......

So here is some adjustments.... Now waiting on Johan to tell me is he wants inverted or more traditional with pedal lifting..... Arghhhh I hate waiting! I wish I wouldn't have cut the stems but I will flatten them out a bit more with the spoon...like I did on the small veins. Here it is with the pick guard shape

Ya this was from the inverted carving book northmount:) Mike that was the one I was trying at first like the picture you posted but I failed at it numerous times to look that cool.... I do not have a pedal lifter:( So this will be going onto a tele pickguard and I thought that inverted carving would be much better just so there is nothing sticking up as this client only wants 1 lonely leaf in the center of the strings I figured this style would be the way to go.... Do you got some tips on inverted tooling for this application? Thanks for all your comments!!

That's what I was thinking to Mike and I held off until someone else said it hahahaha On the edges right, just a subtle hint of green...

Thanks to Jax and Imiketoo this morning for saving my day! I really am trying hard for some realism so please any comments are welcome! I dyed it with brushes watered down with red orange and yellow then added some dark brown and black dry brush effects... Compared to the pile in the garbage this morning I like this one so far but since this style is not what I do normally could listen to some sound advise!! Thanks!!! I am all ears!

Still waiting on the secret paddling to be allowed in..... Maybe I am paddling to hard???