FrankeWashie's EXA 1 customised kit

[FrankenWashie]

Guitar coming along very nicely.

Where would the logo go? Headstock? You could do a stylised bolt through the logo to go with the 'Franken' bit. And maybe make it 'labs', not 'lab'?

Or you could stick the main part of the logo symbol on the front of the headstock, and have the FGL text on the back of the headstock?

Or run the text in a single line along the bottom of the front of the headstock and have the logo (possibly engraved) on an over-sized truss-rod cover?

@Simon, I did some playing around with the sizing and layout and your suggestion of the bare logo on front and details on rear works really well in my mock up. Once you drop it down to a suitable size for the headstock, you tend to lose the text, and the white border becomes indistinct enough to be redundant.
So for these smaller applications it will be limited to:



Given that the headstock is slightly lighter than the rest of the body, it should give enough contrast to be visible but not prominent.

I'm going to have a bash at printing a few off and see how they work.

[Simon Barden]

Looks good to me.

[gavinturner]

Yep looks great.

cheers,
Gav.

[FrankenWashie]

I was going to start the first finish coat tonight, though the humidity seems through the roof at the moment so I might hold off.
In terms of water slide application, do you do this straight to the intensifier coat or do you slap a layer of finish coat down first?

[FrankenWashie]

Okay so we have called it quits at 4 intensifier coats and given them time to well and truly settle in and go off.

Last night we began the first of the final coats....




Spotted a few little areas where it might need some attention, though i am adhering to the word of DB and not going back over bits i've missed and leaving it for subsequent coats. So far i'm reasonably pleased.

[wokkaboy]

looking good Frankie, will this be your first completed Pitbull kit when it's done ?

[FrankenWashie]

looking good Frankie, will this be your first completed Pitbull kit when it's done ?

Yeah mate, theres no reason to rush is there?

[wokkaboy]

HAHA that's it Frankie, well I am hopefully going to finish a build I started almost 2.5 years ago the Mosrite (cricket bat in DB terms), will see how the last clear coat polishes up

[FrankenWashie]

I want to see how that turns out, as well as the monster tele!

[wokkaboy]

no worries Frankie, I need to post some photos of the mozzy and telemonster has got 2 coats of stain on it now and the neck is shaped nicely and picking up 2 pieces of flat bar tomoz to stiffen the neck. I'll try get around to updating the forum !