Embarking on a new adventure

[Solarflares]

Perhaps pay someone $80 to dress those frets for you.
My only change would have been to set the neck lower in the joint, giving a lower profile, allowing the pickups to be set further into the body. I’d have also liked to see a headstock transfer of some description.
Well done though. Have a beer on me.

 

[BRENTrocks]

 

[Solarflares]

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Excellent

 

[BRENTrocks]

Perhaps pay someone $80 to dress those frets for you.
My only change would have been to set the neck lower in the joint, giving a lower profile, allowing the pickups to be set further into the body. I’d have also liked to see a headstock transfer of some description.
Well done though. Have a beer on me.

I would have liked to decrease the neck pitch, but unfortunately, the bridge was too tall. The bridge is almost bottomed out on the Body right now as it is.

 

[Solarflares]

This is where I like to be.

 

[BRENTrocks]

This is where I like to be.
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I certainly would’ve liked to have been able to set this one up that way, but it just wasn’t in the cards for this particular build

 

[BRENTrocks]

 

[BRENTrocks]

 

[Sick Michael]

I looked at the thread title and thought..."oh man he's going to have a sex change..."

Im a big Johnny Winter fan - I'd go mini humbuckers and reverse headstock but it looks like a great project!

 

[Navigator]

Nice job, man! Sounds great too. Nice and chunky.

 

[BRENTrocks]

Nice job, man! Sounds great too. Nice and chunky.

Thanks bro!

 

[inyarak74]

Well….its done. At least as done as done as it’s gonna be for now.

The frets are HORRIBLE. It needs a Refret but I’m not spending $400 for a Refret on a $280 kit guitar. Not yet anyway. If I had the tools, I’d attempt to do it myself. But tools would cost more than a pro re fret and new bone nut.

Overall….im happy with the results.

Is it perfect. No. From 2 feet away it looks great.

Aside from the poor fret work, (sharp, lifting fret ends) this guitar plays and sounds great.

What did I learn from building this kit?

1. Water based stain isn’t too bad to work with.
2. Scraping binding is tough
3. Aquarium tubing is your friend
4. Paste wax dries fast, is easy to work with and is a great top coat if you’re not “spraying”

The pickups are a SD JB/Lollar imperial.
500k pots
Sprauge caps

I had to leave blank leads out to soldier pickups to. (Well I didn’t HAVE to)

I used their tuners, jack, toggle, bridge, pickup rings and jack plate.

Did not use their pots, caps, knobs, strap pins, pickups, or Bigsby tailpiece.

All in all I’m very pleased. It was good experience for me to build this kit. And it was fun. Would I do another in the future….yeah.




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Hell yeah! Cool build Brent! Enjoyed the ride

 

[Solarflares]

Hell yeah! Cool build Brent! Enjoyed the ride

A very short ride.

 

[inyarak74]

A very short ride.

Sometimes they’re better than a long one

 

[BRENTrocks]

Sometimes they’re better than a long one

I’m very impatient

 

[Exo-metal]

I thought you were going to wrestle alligators?