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As a fellow U.K. resident do you mind if I ask, did you get hammered with with customs charges as well when your kit arrrived?

As much as I would love to win this, there would be no shame in losing to any of these excellent builds.

Thanks mate, I very nearly didn’t enter when I saw the other builds entered. Both incredible looking guitars.

This is my Thanoscaster.
I used dartfords wood dye to get the colour, innumerable very diluted coats as I didn’t want to overpower that grain.
Grain filled with a darker mix on the neck for a dirty...

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Hopefully this multi photo post works but if not I’ll have to add them all individually.
She’s complete (just waiting for coloured strings).
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More hardware attached for setup and soldering today.
Hopefully I’ll get it finished tomorrow.
If anyone is reading could you give me some honest feedback on...

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Thanks Simon, the rout in this body is actually a p90 sized one anyway so there’s very little work for me to do, I also have a spare p90 cover left over from my last build.
I’m planning on using the...

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Headstock logo in place. I’m planning on keeping the neck quite thinly coated with Tru Oil.
Another 24 hours and I’ll give her a slight buffing with some very fine...

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Thanks for the kind comments and advice guys.
If I’ve done this correctly this should show the neck heel sanded down with the “dirty grain filled” effect I’ve been...

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Dyed and shaped neck

Well it’s neck day today, I’m aiming (optimistically) to grain fill with a very subtle amount of purple, nowhere near as deep as the body, sand it back and then start oiling the neck. The headstock...

Thanks, appreciate the feedback.
That’s the colour done for now, I wanted to get it nice and deep without overpowering that spalt.

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This is after a few coats of Tru Oil.

Btw I’m not sure if these photos are showing up for anybody so let me know if I’m doing something wrong, couldn’t upload directly from my phone.
Once the dye was finished I started with multiple...

Started laying many, many thin layers of dartfords wood dye until it built up to the colour I wanted.
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Hopefully this photo works, this is the body after some light additional sanding.

Thanks for the welcome👍
I’ve just started my build diary post so I’ll get some photos up asap

I’m new to the forum and pitbull but a little experienced with guitar building in general having built myself a partscaster, a scratch bass and tele previously.
I bought the necks in because that’s...

Hi, just wanted to introduce myself as I’ve recently acquired my first kit from pitbull (TLA1s) and have started building already, really enjoying the quality of the kits, with any luck I’ll be able...