WezV - Gretsch inspired Baritone

WezV · February 11

The bigger body with longer neck does throw off proportions a bit.

These are just cheap Chinese tuners, but they seem to work well enough for now. They can always be swapped out later if they start to become unreliable.

WezV · April 7

Onto finishing, here it is at the back getting it's sealer coats

The neck has a really nice shimmer. I think I'm going to leave it natural. It's hard to capture in a pic but it almost looks like a lighter snakewood

I have some shell pink nitro for the back of the body.

I also got some cans of pink flake for the top and headstock. I didn't fancy putting that through the gun

I'm going to spray that over a shell pink base coat, then tint it all for an aged appearance that will tone it down a bit. Plates will be sprayed with a deep goldtop gold

WezV · April 11

I decided to get some colour on this today.

I started with shell pink all over, then added sparkle to the top. I really didn't like this so stripped the top back and did a darker rouge colour prior to the flake. Unfortunately I messed up the shell pink sides redoing the top. But the top is looking fun and you get a nice idea how the two tone finish will look once I redo the back and sides.

Now it needs a lot of clear.

DartmoorHedgehog · April 11

That really suits the whole style of the thing. I think if it was mine I'd prefer green sparkle, but that red is cool.

WezV · April 11

It's not actually that red. I think I subconsciously made it a sparkly burgundy mist.

The base coat was a mix of shell pink, torino red and tobacco brown. Then topped with the pink flake

SteveF · April 12

Looking very cool. Love the whole vibe.

TheMarlin · April 12

Nice! Impressive work

DartmoorHedgehog · April 12

WezV said:

It's not actually that red. I think I subconsciously made it a sparkly burgundy mist.

The base coat was a mix of shell pink, torino red and tobacco brown. Then topped with the pink flake

Whatever it is it looks good. I'm not much of a fan of really red guitars (Hank Marvin style) but I quite like whatever colour that is.

PhilKing · April 14

It's looking really good. I know it's too late and Gretsch didn't;t have them in sparkle jets, but an f-holr in the top would look interesting.

Not the fake one like on the Country Gent though!

WezV · April 15

I think it may have worked if I'd considered it sooner.

It will look more (jumbo)jet like once I get the plates sorted

WezV · April 26

Working on the guard design. this will be made in clear perspex and sprayed a nice vintage gold on the reverse. The bird is a Gannet, which I think nicely ties this guitars larger size with the G logos on the parts

PhilKing · April 26

Nice touch, the gannet.

WezV · April 29

just cutting templates, I will reposition the decal elements once its all made - I might change or skip the text altogether. I also may reshape the bottom end of this a bit so it isn't so close to the bridge

WezV · April 29

I think I will reshape like this

digitalkettle · April 29

Will you move the bird to avoid wing clippage?

(move it...it's upsetting me!)

WezV · April 29

yes of course.... i will make separate decals or masks for that and position it where it looks best on the underside of the clear guard prior to painting