Vinnie Vincent inspired guitar!

 Here 's a new guitar project I recently finished. It's a modified flying-V electric inspired by a unique custom guitar. It's the Jackson RR that was built for the 80's guitar hero Vinnie Vincent. The striking silver and fuchsia colors add an unmistakable 80's glam character to this guitar.
 The body
My project started out as a rough-routed flying-V body and a Korean 24 fret maple neck sporting a V headstock. The body was a mixture of solid mahogany and laminated maple(!) wood. It was already rooted for a neck pickup and a small control cavity. I wanted to use one bridge humbucker so I had to cover the old neck pickup cavity with some plywood and then mask it using wood putty.
 Then, I carved the body sides to look like the dual RR pattern of Vinnie's custom. The result was more of a dual V style but that was Ok considering the original body shape was a '57 style V.  I used wood filler and sandpaper to smoothen the body sides.
 The neck
The neck I used for this guitar was a 24 fret bolt-on maple neck. It had a "Westsound" logo and it was probably a Korean made neck. It was more than 10 years old and the frets had to be leveled and polished. The fretboard was also cleaned up and oiled.
 Neck joint
The neck was originally attached to the body with 4 bolts. It was the classic strat style bolt-on neck joint. I wanted to convert the joint to a set-in for more sustain and better playability. Therefore, I carved and shaped the body's neck pocket to look more like a set-in one. The neck was also carved and sanded down a bit to match the new neck pocket. The body and neck were then glued together with some strong epoxy and the old screw holes were covered with putty. I also installed a strap button on the neck joint which helped holding the guitar together at first.
 Finish
The was spray painted white at first. Then, I covered some areas with tape and sprayed a fuchsia fluo color on the body. Then, I removed the old tapes and covered the fuchsia colored areas in order to paint the body in silver. That's how the dual color finish was created.
 The headstock and back of the neck was also painted in fuchsia. Then, the whole guitar was sprayed with a clear coat paint.
 Hardware
I used a hardtail bridge and a set of closed type tuning keys that are made by Sung IL. Sung Il is the chinese factory (korean base) that produces the Wilkinson hardware.
 Pickup
The pickup used is an open coil Wilkinson hex pickup that had an alnico-V bar. I changed that magnetic bar to a ceramic one and the pickup became so much hotter. Combined with a 500k single volume pot, it's now perfect for hard rock and metal.  The pickup reads about 10KOhm on the multimeter (which is not a totally "overwound" kind of d.c. resistance value) but the ceramic bar really does the job.
 The result
The guitar was finally set up with a set of light ("9) strings and Nik, a friend of mine(which is a virtuoso, by the way), tested the guitar thoroughly. The Vinnie Vincent inspired V sounded great through a Line6 spider amp , a Hughes & Kettner switchblade and a Randall rh50t.  I looking forward to the next guitar project!

UPDATE! Black hardware and better quality black tuners installed! Get ready for some shredding!

-Thanos

My latest hand made creations:

Making of the Vinnie V pictures:

"Setting" the neck on the body using tite-bond:

Wood putty application:

Silver coat:

White coat as a colour base for the fuschia coat:

Fuschia coat applied:

Finishing with clear coats:

The mk1 result:

mk2 result: (better quality hardware in black)