I have just received Broadcaster 0635 from Clive Brown in the UK.
He did an incredible job on the body finish. The guitar was stripped natural many years before it got to me. It didnt look bad, it just wasnt right.
Clive has applied a finish thats just so close to the real thing its amazing.
Now I play and look at the guitar and forget about the fact the darn thing was ever stripped. It was always a fantastic guitar (great full size round neck, feather weight, great sounding pus...) now it also looks and feels fantastic.
Clive didnt do anything to the neck because although the headstock decal is a perfect replica (I believe the neck was severly polished, refretted and most of lacquer taken off the fretboard), there was still a good amount of original finish left in there and it feels old and right. I will try to post pictures asap see what you guys think.
To me it just feels, plays and looks like an original Broadcaster but for a small portion of the cost! In that way Clive has changed my view of the market a bit. I always thought if I was to keep something, that should be solely clean and original vintage guitars that would be worth collecting. But with these restoration jobs he does. NOwadays I dont know anymore if it makes sense to collect expensive clean original guitars that you rarely play, or just stick to cheaper genuine great vintage instruments that you can drag around and with a little bit of patience and extra investment can be brought back to what they used to be! I wish I could do both
Nacho