Solid Gold Albert Lee Guitar.

[ShaneV]

That looks great, probably feels great too (I much prefer the feel of an all metal trem arm)

I'm lucky insofar as Lady Spud doesn't wear yellow gold.

She likes silver
She loves white gold
She really loves platinum

Maybe I oghta make some silver ones for my BCB Albert?

My wife's the same way

 

[zombywoof]

You should start a small business on Ebay.
I bet you would sell a load of them.
20% discount for Knuckleheads!

 

[Spudmurphy]

Thanks guys - I see the thread got resurrected since a put hyperlinks to my guitars, in my signature.
Glen - there was an ounce of 9k gold that went into the castings. Of course that would be reduced somewhat by the machining so it won't make hardly any difference to the total weight.
Straycat - great idea. Pimp my Axe, West Axe Customs, Orange County Axes, American Hot ASS- but I'd hate to think what that would bring up on a Google search ha!
Shane- yeah I know what you mean and it does feelnice!
Zomby- I guess there is a market for these - my jeweller buddy did all the casting for me, and I did the machining which was a pain in the butt - you'd think gold would be easy to machine - man I was wrong.
Incidentally, I just used a "gold to sterling converter", and an ounce of gold goes for £279 !!!! I was lucky in that my work colleagues at the time donated their scrap gold - I don't think that I would be so lucky again, because there are a lot of adverts now wanting to buy your scrap gold.

The pickup selector switch has a small blob of super glue on it - just in case!!!

 

[His Reverence]

With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold into thy treasure

 

[Spudmurphy]

^
Hee hee - good to see that "The Rev" is watching over me.

 

[zombywoof]

You should do some diamond inlays on that guitar with maybe some ruby on the twelfth fret!
If you're a little short moneywise you can use zirconias.

 

[andynpeters]

Amazing Spud......you never cease to surprise.

What next the David Beckham Signature Blingmaster???

 

[PaulBass]

IDK.. seems too over the top to me. since I don't really care for gold unless it's used for conductive purposes. gold pickup poles, saddles, and wiring are great though

 

[Spudmurphy]

Gold saddles !!!! I assume gold plated?

Over the top? - you bet ya.

 

[Spudmurphy]

I was around my mates workshop today and we were reminiscing about this project and so we had a look at this old thread.

So just thought I'd bump it up to show some new members.

Still have me gold knobs !!!