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

[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!

[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.

[Fretworn]

Very Metal \m/ >.< \m/

[AndrewA]

Hi, here is my PBG-1. Not a very original name, but definitely an original guitar.
From the original kit, the edges have been rounded and a very slight belly curve and forearm cut added.
The bone nut I carved from an old dogs bone after reading that DB did this once.
Pickups changed for Entwhistle Dark Star NDs. Volume and tone pots are CTS switches, each splitting a pickup. The knobs are changed for knurled black knobs that are easier to pull on for the switches.
The colour is Dingotone Black Stump burst over ebony Timbermate grain pop, Dingotone natural neck.
The headstock logo is black cut-vinyl under DT on the headstock, and over DT on the body (in case I feel like taking it off some time in the future).
... Everything else is standard