The Discardocaster - NGD Part I, and onto Part II

sweepy

Bridgehouse said:

sweepy said:

I have an old Tele copy neck that someone swapped to a lefty, so the put bodged dots on the other side £15 plus postage ?

Even I couldn't own a lefty

No, its a right handed that someone decided to fit on a Lefty but they put bodged dots on the side, instant Mojo

Bridgehouse

And after an all day dry bath.. with a rub back and clean up (it comes out quite green till you run it back!)

Bridgehouse

Pine really is satisfyingly rustic - especially for an Esquire.



The tru oil finish really is very light - it has some naturally acquired knocks and scrapes, so I cut it back to a satin with some wire wool and will leave it be.

Bridgehouse

I've used a reasonably old and crappy fender bridge (with a bit of accelerated ageing ) and popped the Mojo Esquire pickup in..

Bridgehouse

Some suitably aged strap buttons, and an aged socket cup, and we have the basis of a pretty decent looking Esquire body...

Total cost as seen below £130..



The control plate is in for aging and relicing and I've dug out two old knobs for it. The plate came with the body with 2 CTS pots on, wired and ready to go. So I can pop this back on, wire it up and it awaits a neck all for a princely £130....!

Bridgehouse

I'm sure I'm probably talking to myself now, but ah well

Plate and Knobs ready to go on:

Bridgehouse

And here's the pots wired up - just need to wire in jack socket and pickup.

Bridgehouse

No comments I see, so you must all be bored with this

Anyway, I'm carrying on regardless. Control panel is all wired up, tested and installed...

I really do just need a neck for this one now!!!

DrBob

Bridgehouse said:

No comments I see, so you must all be bored with this

Anyway, I'm carrying on regardless. Control panel is all wired up, tested and installed...

I really do just need a neck for this one now!!!

No man, I'm still out here ! And yes you do need another neck !

Bridgehouse

DrBob said:

Bridgehouse said:

No comments I see, so you must all be bored with this

Anyway, I'm carrying on regardless. Control panel is all wired up, tested and installed...

I really do just need a neck for this one now!!!

No man, I'm still out here ! And yes you do need another neck !

Tell me about it!! 


I have parts for the other one in the meantime tho

paulnb57

I really like the way this is going and it has inspired me to use up a load of parts I have cluttering the place up! I've found enough stuff to build a decent Strat, all I need  to source is 3x plain shaft knobs and a scratchplate.....

Bridgehouse

An old vintage tuner set which was still spotless and shiny required a bit of relic work to fit in with the theme of this project - cheap and cheerful but far too new looking!

Anyway, overnight in the vinegar bath and a good scrub this morning:

Roland

Bridgehouse said:

I'm sure I'm probably talking to myself now ...

When it's an interesting build thread people often look but don't comment. At this moment you've got 72 comments, and over 1,100 views. That's a lot of interest.

Bridgehouse

Roland said:

Bridgehouse said:

I'm sure I'm probably talking to myself now ...

When it's an interesting build thread people often look but don't comment.

I know, I'm just like that

It does feel like I'm talking to myself a bit tho

DrBob

Bridgehouse said:

Roland said:

Bridgehouse said:

I'm sure I'm probably talking to myself now ...

When it's an interesting build thread people often look but don't comment.

I know, I'm just like that

It does feel like I'm talking to myself a bit tho

It's good that you can still hear yourself over the voices though right ?

Bridgehouse

DrBob said:

Bridgehouse said:

Roland said:

Bridgehouse said:

I'm sure I'm probably talking to myself now ...

When it's an interesting build thread people often look but don't comment.

I know, I'm just like that

It does feel like I'm talking to myself a bit tho

It's good that you can still hear yourself over the voices though right ?

You mean the ones in my head?

Funkfingers

Roland said:

Bridgehouse said:

I'm sure I'm probably talking to myself now ...

When it's an interesting build thread people often look but don't comment. At this moment you've got 72 comments, and over 1,100 views. That's a lot of interest.

There will be people checking out this thread, hoping to pick up helpful hints or find the confidence to attempt a Partsocaster of their own. By making it look easy, you are doing two things.
1) Demonstrating that it is easy to assemble a Fender style electric guitar.
2) Creating a bunch of work for guitar techs, putting the finishing touches on project guitars that their owners could not quite manage. Ker-ching!

Teyeplayer

And 3) showing a few of us simple but effective relicing techniques.

Keep the good work up @Bridgehouse ;

impmann

Looking good, chap.
Glad the bits arrived ok. :-)

redrighthand

The loom etc should be there Mon or Tues fella.