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cooter · . Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 1185 Location: Blue Ridge, GA

Started this one recently. Vox Phantom style body, vintage 60's Teisco pickups, roller bridge, Univox "Gimme" knobs and strap buttons.
The neck was one of the unfretted, unradiused necks the GFS was blowing out. I put a 7.25" radius on it and fretted it.
Unfortunately I don't think the horseshoe trem is going to work. The break angle may be too steep for the bridge.

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db · . Joined: 25 Nov 2011 Posts: 17

Nice! A jag trem would look cool on that - especially if you could get a different shape plate for it. What are you going to do with the pickups, route holes for them?

cooter · . Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 1185 Location: Blue Ridge, GA

Thanks
Yeah, I'll figure out my routes and then make a pickguard for it.
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cooter · . Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 1185 Location: Blue Ridge, GA

Seeing Christopher's Phantom Project made me want to resurrect my boat paddle build.
The pickguard is made now. I wound up losing the bigsby because I wasn't happy with the break angle on the strings.
It's much better with the gfs teisco copy trem. This build will have more in common with the Teisco EV Phantom copy
than a true Vox Phantom.

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Josh · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 4:50 pm Post subject:

So cool. Your work is the best, always check this part of the forum to keep up on your projects.

cooter · . Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 1185 Location: Blue Ridge, GA

HNB · . Joined: 15 Apr 2012 Posts: 4089 Location: Puyallup, WA

Looking great!!

cooter · . Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 1185 Location: Blue Ridge, GA

Thanks. And thanks for the inspiration I needed to get back on this one.
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henkstroem · . Joined: 17 Nov 2015 Posts: 99

Looks great! Sixties square blue or heart-shaped sunglasses would fit that style o guitar Cool

cooter · . Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 1185 Location: Blue Ridge, GA

Finished this one up. It only took a little over a year. Flat black paint and a hodgepodge of Teisco, Univox and GFS parts. I threw a Univox decal on the headstock since I had one and Univox should have made a Phantom copy anyway. Wink

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sunshiner · Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 1:50 pm Post subject:

This looks very very cool
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speedfish · . Joined: 27 Oct 2011 Posts: 1148

Rat Fink. Great job as always.
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