![]() ![]() There was a lot of dialogue, but here’s the most useful bit of it. Eventually they showed up.īecause the internet is sometimes amazing, I got some feedback and advice from the guy who made the original! Steve Vai’s former tech. ![]() Turns out, some dude in Russia went through the trouble of recreating the original skate stickers. It doesn’t quite pop enough, but it’s pretty good.īut stickers… Back to that one. What I ended up with was an Auto Zone close-enough version of the classic Chrysler color. Also, Covid making a lot of paint suppliers unreliable. I don’t know if either of these colors are right, but they look *close* and guitar makers certainly have a history of using classic car colors. Apparently there’s a somewhat newer green based on that called Green With Envy. The closest I can figure is it’s really similar to the late 60s / early 70s mopar green you’d see on Chargers, Roadrunners, etc. You won’t find a paint code with that name anywhere.Ī lot of folks do some Krylon/Rustoleum shit. It’s called “loch ness green.” That does not help. I did a Dark Matter 2 in the middle mostly because I hate the imbalance that usually comes with a single coil in the middle of two humbuckers. My pickup choices were the Fred in the bridge (no real reason why, just wanted something a little different) and a PAF Pro in the neck. For electronics, I wired it per the original guitar (at least as that Dimarzio story tells it). I went for a 10-16″ compound radius fretboard because that’s just something I like and 6150 frets because those 80’s guitars had meatier frets. Back before shredder necks got to be paper thin. Similar-ish to the original Wizard necks as well as older Charvels. One of their strat bodies (basswood to both match the latter Ibanez Jems and to be light as a feather) with a neck using their “standard thin” profile. Not even a super limited run like Fender did with the Hitmaker (a guitar I also made a clone of, because that guitar is rad and Nile Rodgers is a king).Īs part of my daily guitar banter with great friend George, I got inspired to make my own Green Meanie. Definitely not enough for Charvel or Ibanez to release any sort of commercial version of the Green Meanie. I couldn’t fathom the number of replicas out there. I’ve seen one or two people that have gone as far as trying to acquire authentic stickers, which sounds like a giant pain in the ass and kinda silly given you’re making a clone of something. And I kinda dig guitars with stickers, so long as there’s a bit of a common thread involved. That seems to be the most photographed rendition and also the final state of the guitar. I mostly know it as the stickered up version. Others know it with some body routing and wear but no stickers. Plenty of people know it as a clean green Charvel with a white pickguard and minimal mods. It’s a guitar everyone has a slightly different memory, as you likely experienced it at different times. Should you be unfamiliar, the best encapsulation can be found here: If you’re a super guitar dork, you know exactly what it is. Were you surprised by Wes’ big secret? Bummed about Chamberlain’s death? Jealous the Chanels didn’t invite you to their throwback party? Drop a comment with your thoughts on this week’s episode below.If you’re remotely cool, you have no idea what the Green Meanie is. She says her psychotic brother wore it to go on a killing spree on the anniversary of Jane’s husband’s death - then died a year later at the hands of a roller-derby team. * Detective Zayday did some sniffing around this week, and with the help of a handy-loving costume store owner, she traced the Green Meanie costume back to Jane Hollis (aka Cassidy’s mom). (Needless to say, he did not enjoy his World War II-themed party.) Unsurprisingly, the plan blew up in the girls’ collective face, as they greatly overestimated Brock’s age. Holt’s relationship-crippling age gap, Hester proposed (1) that she and the other Chanels educate their leader on Brock’s generation, and (2) that they host an elaborate dinner party to show how much she’s learned. ![]()
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