Hi All,
I sometimes pop in here and marvel at all your handywork but have never before had a go at building a partscaster myself.
I recently bought an ash body and have had a go at staining it, I tested a couple of colours and eventually got something close to what I wanted;
http://i64.tinypic.com/a2dikn.jpg Now, don't laugh, I also bought a cheap Chinese neck that was absolutely caked in Poly and the fretboard looked very light and pretty unappealing, I spent all (and I mean all) Sunday removing the Poly and I've stained the fretboard a much nicer dark chocolate brown;
http://i67.tinypic.com/f0t08n.jpg Now the neck's one saving grace is the rather lovely flame;
http://i65.tinypic.com/2j4dklh.jpg I have a some locking tuners here ready to fit and a Wilkinson trem in the post, looking forward to putting it together and seeing what kind of rip roaring c*** I can make of it
:-) Wish me luck!
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I fitted a couple of strings as a guide and then drilled the holes for the neck and mounted that, after a bit of faffing about with the truss rod and the bridge we have a functioning guitar.
http://i68.tinypic.com/6nxgkg.jpg
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My oldest daughter has always been a fan of old horror movies so I'm planning on putting a decal on the headstock with her name and Frankenstein's monster where the "custom body" would be and I've been faffing about in Photoshop making a logo;
http://i66.tinypic.com/2i7tq3a.jpg
The neck is really not all that chunky Andy, It has quite a flat radius though which suits me just fine.
I'm actually quite surprised how functional the neck is, I took a punt on this Chinese neck presuming I would be doing some fretwork, I figured that if I had to refret it then it would be a fun project and if I made a total arse of it well, it would not be the end of the world, but the fretwork is not bad at all really.
Last night I used a razor blade and some sand paper (I don't have fret files) to adjust the height of the nut slots and it plays quite well now. I have a bone nut sitting here so I will probably fit that the next time the stings are off.
I am really tempted to buy a LSR roller nut but I'm reading lots of crap reviews of them online and that is putting me off.
I bought a wooden pickguard and stained it to suit but I'm not at all sure I'll use it now.
I'd be interested to hear folks suggestions of what would look good?
Maybe black? or an anodized metal one perhaps?
If it were me, I'd fit a black-white-black pickguard on that... or an aged cream one, to go for the Steve Hillage look.
I'm off to look at more scratchplates :-D
http://i66.tinypic.com/2d7esfd.jpg
http://i68.tinypic.com/hur1qv.jpg
Yay or Neigh?