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here's some pics of my '84 GT, with a top mount Floyd lock nut c/o BCRGreg, and a pic of my '86 A5 with custom made mirror pickguard, also by BCRGreg.

I applaud your dedication to our favorite metal guitarist. Nice job. The guitar looks friggin AWESOME!!!!!

Hopefully Mr.Tipton or Hamer doesn't have any beef with their respective names being made w/o their permission! hehe Or did you get permission? That would be

SWEET!

I guess though, if you don't sell the thing you'd be alright. :-)

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I LOVE Phantoms!!!

I had been trying to get Frank Rindone and Kim Keller to make Phantoms again for a long time. No go. Although they DO have the body blanks up there. It could be implimented. ;-)

But not too cost effective I don't think.

But I think the A5 is a custom order, but I didn't order it that way. It was in the store already when I got it, but I got it new.

I foolishly sold it a few years ago, and it miraculously boomeranged back to BCR, where Greg bought it back just for little old me, knowing I'd buy it back in a second. But the guy who bought it, bitched it all up, so we removed the triple p/u ring and the single neck p/u and turned it into a suedo GT.

It's MUCH better now anyway. The p/u routings under the mirror guard almost act like small sound chambers, and the guitar has alot more smack than it used to.

The real GT, was probably custom ordered too, since it is a black metalflake, which according to Serial Steve, wasn't a production color for another year or two after that. So someone must have special ordered that color.

This is the only pic I have of it where you can see a little bit of the metalflake.

It's kinda cool!

The A5 is just straight black. No surprises there.... :-)

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That's cool. I like to hear about Phantoms. No body mentions them that much on these boards. I wish more people would post pictures of their Phantoms. I think a reissue of the Phantom with a more exagerated headstock would be very cool.
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Yeah, they would look AWESOME with the headstock on Tiptons bowtie guitar!!!!!

Hmmm.... I think I might visit Photoshop and see what I can slap together!!! ;-)

 
Hey Hellrider, do you have any good pics of where exactly the strap lock is mounted on the back of the top cutaway horn on his Phantoms?

I only saw pics from the front of his guitar, and it looks kinda like it would be positioned somewhere above the 17th fret area.

I was thinking about mounting mine in the same place.

 
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My guess is that the old Switchcraft barrel plug gave out and was replaced with the Strat cup/jack (at least that's what it looks like in the second pic). I love Phantoms! Here's a pic from last weekend-a little AC/DC...

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