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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2018 10:07:51 GMT -7
Nice, thanks for keeping us informed. Seems like you were successful in eliminating most of the burn spots. The two tone headstock should be a real beauty. Nice!
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Post by mcook217 on Nov 5, 2018 8:17:25 GMT -7
got the main paint jobs done, just have to wait for the paint to cure and shoot it with clear. The body is going to get just normal stewmac clear lacquer. The back of the neck and headstock will get stewmac aged clear lacquer and the normal clear lacquer and the front of the headstock will get the normal clear lacquer. Here's a few pics with the pickguard in place. The accent strip on the headstock matches the pickguard really well for just being off the rack spray paint (I wasn't going to drop almost $20 on lacquer for such a tiny little strip)
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Post by Norrin Radd on Nov 5, 2018 8:32:12 GMT -7
Ok. This is looking a lot cooler than I thought it would. This is turning out very nicely. I love the unique headstock!
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Post by mcook217 on Nov 5, 2018 9:08:08 GMT -7
Ok. This is looking a lot cooler than I thought it would. This is turning out very nicely. I love the unique headstock! Yea I'm really happy with how it's turning out. I can't wait to get it finished and assembled! Also, it's hard to tell in this picture but as the guitar moves in the light, you can still see the wood grain and the finish is thin enough that you can still feel it too. FYI: The tuners will be white button grovers like you'd find on a mustang and the knobs are aged white witch hat knobs
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Post by mcook217 on Nov 5, 2018 13:51:20 GMT -7
Couldn't work on some of my other projects today so I went ahead and shot the back of the neck with the aged clear. I'll wait then till the front of the headstock and the body is cured and shoot them all with the regular clear together. Here's how it looks now and a pic off to the side of the body so you can see the grain
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2018 17:51:04 GMT -7
Dare I ask about your intentions for switching there?
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Post by mcook217 on Nov 9, 2018 20:10:56 GMT -7
Dare I ask about your intentions for switching there? Saw a guitar in a youtube video from some boutique builder that used 4 pickups in a strat body. In the bridge, they had a strat sized P-90 and a normal strat pickup. Iwith a push-pull on the volume knob, they made it so in the down position is just the p-90, in the up they were wired together in series. I decided to switch it to a three-way mustang style switch so it would be strat-humbucker-p-90. The bridge and the neck positions are both going to be that way. The second tone control will also be a push-push that will turn the bridge pickup on in parallel in every position. The strat sized p-90s are Porter S90s and the rest of the pickups are Lollar Blackface and a Special in the bridge.
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Post by mcook217 on Nov 20, 2018 14:04:22 GMT -7
IT'S FINISHED! I got it all assembled yesterday and had just one thing with the wiring that I had to troubleshoot today, but it's 100% now. It's all set up and it sounds amazing! I know a lot of you guys will think it's too complicated and stuff, but I have 2 electric guitars and 1 acoustic. I wanted this guitar to be as versatile as I could make it and boy is it ever. First here are the pictures of it completed: so quick explanation of the wiring. There are 5 pickups in this guitar. In the neck position there is a Porter S90 and a Lollar Blackface. The middle pickup is also a Lollar Blackface and in the Bridge there is a Lollar Special S and another Porter S90. It's normal strat 5-way switching but the two pickups in the neck position are connected to a three-way switch so you can get one or the other and the two together as a humbucker in series. Same goes with the two pickups in the bridge position. Then it's just master volume and tone control for the neck position and a tone control for middle and bridge. The second tone control is also a push-push that turns the bridge pickups on in parallel in every switch position. So if I counted it all up correctly and didn't forget something that's a total of 31 unique pickup combinations. Ironically enough the standard strat pickups have never sounded more stratty in this guitar and honestly, I haven't found an unusable tone and I've been through all of the combinations. It's the perfect mix of Strat, Tele and Les Paul tones. I can go from funk to Zepplin at the flick of a switch. I couldn't be happier. I just sat and played most of my day away because I kept getting inspired by each new sound coming from it. Here's a list of the pickup combinations: BridgeP90 BP90/middle Middle NeckP90/middle NP90 BridgeStrat BS/middle NeckStrat/middle NS BridgeHumbucker BH/middle NeckHumbucker/middle NH BP90/NP90] BP90/middle/NP90 BP90/NS BP90/middle/NS BP90/NH BP90/middle/NH BS/NP90 BS/middle/NP90 BS/NS BS/middle/NS BS/NH BS/middle/NH BH/NP90 BH/middle/NP90 BH/NS BH/middle/NS BH/NH BH/middle/NH
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Post by The Bad Poodle Experience on Nov 20, 2018 15:15:06 GMT -7
Very cool. How do i place my order for one? lol
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Post by Christopher on Nov 20, 2018 16:00:46 GMT -7
I appreciate your affinity for pickup wiring options. The imagination and design implementation are killer. I trust you shielded the heck out of that pick guard with the copious amounts of wire under there. J/K around. Glad you like it and best of all- you did it yourself. That's worth the price of admission alone. The grain came out nicely with the finish. The location of the three way sliders is as unique as the headstock and I think the guard ties it all together. Congratulations on a job well done. Enjoy playing it!
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Post by mcook217 on Nov 21, 2018 9:10:51 GMT -7
Very cool. How do i place my order for one? lol I can send you wiring schematics if you want
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Post by mcook217 on Nov 21, 2018 9:14:41 GMT -7
I appreciate your affinity for pickup wiring options. The imagination and design implementation are killer. I trust you shielded the heck out of that pick guard with the copious amounts of wire under there. J/K around. Glad you like it and best of all- you did it yourself. That's worth the price of admission alone. The grain came out nicely with the finish. The location of the three way sliders is as unique as the headstock and I think the guard ties it all together. Congratulations on a job well done. Enjoy playing it! hey thanks. It was a really fun project. And yes it is completely shielded and very very quiet. The difference between hum cancelling positions and normal is very minimal.
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Post by runninwiththerevil (Matthew) on Mar 14, 2019 18:36:34 GMT -7
Shoot, I wanted you to do the neck to see if that had pokadots too!
I did a Warmoth build and wanted to do the finish myself. I was really surprised how hard it was to get the finish right. Took me three rounds. I'm probably the only guy with a guitar in a nitro finish that is thicker than a MIM Fender in poly. :-)
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Post by Chilly Gibbons (Todd T.) on Mar 15, 2019 14:20:51 GMT -7
I must have lost track of this thread, that is a NICE build! I love the matching gold pickguard and headstock trim. Nice touch.
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