I had a Reverend-style guitar body that I really didn’t like how the finish turned out, so I decided to outource the finish this time.

Specs:

  • Neck: Warmoth Roasted Maple with 12-inch radius rosewood fretboard
  • Tuners: Gotoh Vintage style locking tuners
  • Nut: GraphTech TUSQ XL
  • Frets: Dunlop 6105
  • Body: 2-piece alder
  • Pickups: Suhr S90
  • Finish: Pearl White with Poly finish done by JGP Custom Guitars

I had a Reverend style body that I built that was sitting in the garage but I was really unhappy with how the finish came out. There were end grain checks that I filled with CA glue but they were still showing so I wanted a non-transparent finish on it and decided to send this out to JGP Custom Guitars to finish. It turned out really amazing and I couldn’t be happier with how he finished it.

I’m going to re-build the quilted maple top Tele I made a couple of years ago, so repurposed all of its parts, built a new pickguard, and installed on this guitar. I’m really digging the look of this one.