First kit build - PBG-2!

[Je11o26]

So once again.. problem after problem... we tried to clear coat the guitar after my mate did his amazing art work and of course.. the clear coat reacted with the previous stain that I did and it bubbled and destroyed half of it... so he re painted it and tried to clear again and bam... bubbled and ruined again... After sanding back to wood AGAIN and re painting it... We finally have some success on getting some clear coats on! Here is a few snippets of how it is coming out so far! Image on the front, green flake on the back. Very slowly we are getting there!

[Grubsta]

That is looking really nice loving the green flake.
I know how painful it is to have to start over on a finish gone wrong great job of recovering it

[Andyxlh]

Well done, it looks fantastic. Well done too for sticking with it after some difficulties!

[Dedman]

Paint....the final frontier. Yup gotta be to so careful about what will go over what. Credit to your mate for coming back for the 3 times lucky routine. It's going to be an awesome guitar when finished. I think with that wolf on there you are going to need some snarly pick ups!

[Je11o26]

Have attached the neck and hammered in the bridges etc. Pickups are just loose for now. Also attached the neck strap buttons and then tried to get some photos in the sun but hard to catch the flake in photo. Will be a bit before anymore updates, am waiting for new knobs and copper shielding to come. I will probably upgrade pickups at some point but for now I just want to get it together. Im thinking alnico 2's of some kind. In regards to wiring... should I be getting better wire? shielded wire etc or will the stock wire be fine and not buzz? Any help on that would be great! Thanks guys!

[wazkelly]

The kit supplied wire will do the job but it is very thin, rather weak and most likely fail without too much warning.

I have gradually gone back and re-wired all my builds with the vintage cloth push back stuff as it is a heavier gauge and much easier to strip as you simply just push back the cloth to expose wire to be tinned and soldered. If your PUP selector switch is close by in the control cavity no need for the braided shielded stuff which seems to be used more where there is a long run required as in the case of where PUP selector switch is located in LP's.

Cheers, Waz

[Simon Barden]

What Waz said. I find it so much easier to wire and solder with the thicker and stiffer push-back wire.

[wazkelly]

Thin stuff breaks way too easy when trying to strip it back.

[Je11o26]

Thanks for the advice. Do you guys normally use the 22 awg push back from pitbull's site? or other stuff? any recomendations? Dont really wanna go expensive, spent to much on this as it is haha.

[Andyxlh]

I'd say its worth popping a few extra dollars on! your guitar looks fantastic. I tend to save wire out of stuff that gets checked out, giving me a whole load of bits in different gauges. I tend to go thicker than necessary = don't want to risk any losses!
I can see myself investing in some of the push back stuff, but as you have 4 pots in there i prefer having a few different colours to play with.