November Guitar of the Month

[Brendan]

November Guitar of the Month (for Guitars and Basses finished in October 2016)

November 2016 GOTM

Enter your finished guitar or bass here to be judged for the Pit Bull Guitars November 2016 Guitar of the Month.

Please remember:

For Guitars or Basses finished on (or before) 31 October 2016

One guitar/bass per member per month
It must be a Pit Bull Guitars kit (mods and upgrades acceptable)
Guitar or Bass must be finished and playable


We need at least 4 photos:
· full guitar shot from the front;
· close up of the body finish;
· shot of the back of the guitar; and
· close up of the headstock (please, no brand name logos)


Please post your photos in this thread. If you are having issues posting photos on the forum, please email them to brendan (at) pitbullguitars (dot) com

Please note: This competition is open to amateur guitar builders only. If you are making and selling guitars for profit, you are ineligible.

Competition for September closes 31 October 2016.

May the best axe win!

[UpperCaseH]

Not as amazing as many of the other builds I've seen, but here's my just-finished fretless JBA-4.

Fretless conversions was done by pulling the frets and filling the slots with cedar timbermate before applying CA glue in many many layers. Body is ebony timbermate then a mix of Feast Watson Walnut and Japan Black in different proportions for the body and neck followed by 20+ (I lost count, but it's somewhere between 20 and 25) coats of Tru Oil. I used black pickguard screws that I had spare instead of the stock ones, and I replaced the nut with a graphite one I shaped and filed myself, but apart from that and the fretlessness, everything's stock standard.

I had a ton of fun building it and I'm now having a ton of fun playing it. My first practice with this bass was the very first time I've played a fretless instrument, so I've got a lot of learnng to do.









Hope those photos are of the right stuff.

[Chuck]

That's a great build - don't down play the amount of work you had to do with the neck especially with the results you've achieved. Really looks sweet!

[stan]

a ton of work there H and a very nice result

[Andy40]

Lovely Bass H

[wazkelly]

Top job. So envious of the block markers on the fret board.

[andrewdosborne]

Lovely bass your effort has paid off. And yes those 70s style block markers are the business

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[Ronnie Balz]

Mind blown!

[FrankenWashie]

Top notch work H! Great photos as well, you should be immensely proud of that effort.

[wokkaboy]

good work H, apart from the block markers and pickguard it's pretty similar to Ponch's JBA-4.
Great effort the bar has been raised high already.
You will love a fretless heaps of fun to play.
Did you upgrade the pickups to Entwistle or Tonerider or are they stock ?