August Guitar of the Month Competition (for Guitars and Basses finished in July 2016)

[Tekrytor]

It's a beauty, Andrew! Love the look of wood you got!

[Tekrytor]

Howdy, here's my entry for July 2016, I made my "Frippin'rocker" based on the RC-1M kit.

I made the pickguard and trussrod cover from acrylic sheet with a glitter foil on the pickguard and adhesive letters from Michael's craft stores on the trussrod cover. Then I coated the trussrod cover in resin to protect the lettering. The name is a tip of the hat to Robert Fripp and the BachenRicker guitar company, who are both yuge in my book. I know Mr Fripp plays Les Pauls, but I just like the way the name worked out.

The pickups are NY-IIIs from GuitarFetish.Com which had to be cut and filed to fit the humbucker cavities. I wanted it to look and sound like a Ricky and these were close. They sound pretty good.

The stain is espresso color. The mahogany back took it much better than the basswood front, which I fought with to get smooth. The peghead and neck were also very easy to work with the stain. I used Danish oil and left it matt for a satin finish.

Big thanks to Adam for making this nice kit available and to the other builders here for posting inspiration and tips, especially the other RC-1 builders!

Oh yeah. It also has the mini-Grover upgrade and copper foil in the cavity, both from PitBull. It stays tuned really well. I may add a twang bar eventually.

It was great fun to build and plays great! Very happy customer, it grows on me every time I pick it up.

[wokkaboy]

great build Tekrytor, nice stain colour and the headstock cover looks great, well done

[andrewdosborne]

Nice RC Tekrytor well executed and love the colour scheme

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[stan]

very nice, natural looking RC, Tekrytor, good job

[Mulldoe]

Hi everyone,
Time for another entry, here is my "Battle Axe". It is a custom 24fret EX-1 with sharktooth inlay and floating trem. I finished it in kind of a hammered/textured paint job with some norse symbols (body- Odin triskelion and truss rod cover- troll cross) and runes (translates to "Iron Vengeance". I also chucked an Entwistle X3 in for the bridge pickup and fit a trem toolkit to the back of the headstock. It was shipped with the wrong colour neck nut and I am waiting on the correct one but other than that it's all good to go. Anyway here's the pic's.




Alright, cheers for reading.

Mulldoe

[DrNomis_44]

Hi everyone,
Time for another entry, here is my "Battle Axe". It is a custom 24fret EX-1 with sharktooth inlay and floating trem. I finished it in kind of a hammered/textured paint job with some norse symbols (body- Odin triskelion and truss rod cover- troll cross) and runes. I also chucked an Entwistle X3 in for the bridge pickup and fit a trem toolkit to the back of the headstock. It was shipped with the wrong colour neck nut and I am waiting on the correct one but other than that it's all good to go. Anyway here's the pic's.




Alright, cheers for reading.

Mulldoe

That guitar looks wicked, you should record a demo so we can hear what it sounds like.

[Dedman]

That finish is extremely hard wearing, I've done all the desk tops in my office with it. Never thought of doing a guitar with it, but it looks great!

[andrewdosborne]

That finish is extremely hard wearing, I've done all the desk tops in my office with it. Never thought of doing a guitar with it, but it looks great!

Agree this finish has come up well nice looking EX-1

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[Fretworn]

Very Metal \m/ >.< \m/