May Guitar of the Month

[Wayne.Mumford]

A nice clean look with a first attempt, well done Basstapp.

[Fuzzbeard]

Hi All

This one has been a long time coming (I even lost the build diary)
It is an SG-1F, I have installed Entwhistle Darkstar pickups which are crazy hot, a bone nut, Rotosound 59-11 strings (tuned to C standard), it has push/pull pots for coil splitting and shiny gold bits.

[Fuzzbeard]

This is a bit of an indication of how long it took.

[cork sniffer]

Puppy looks happy that it's finished

[rook]

@BassTapp I love the truss rod cover. I'm not sure if I can call it that anymore, as it doesn't cover the trussrod, but it looks really cool and original. Great design!

[rook]

Here is my entry for GOTM - It is an RCA-4 Bass!

Was a lurker on the forum for a while and this is my first full build.

I nicknamed my bass the "Ravibacker".

Here are the upgrades to the kit:
Upgraded electronics
All Parts Rickenbacker Bridge
Seymore Dunkan 1/4 Jazz Bridge Pick up.
Custom polished aluminum Jazz pick-up surround
Strap Locks
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky strings
Chrome knobs
3D printed truss rod cover

Aniline wood dyes for the stain and Tru oil to finish.
And here are the pics!




















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Thanks for looking!

[trv]

This month is ridiculous. Beautiful builds everyone!

It took nearly a year to complete, here is my first attempt at building a kit: the Spalted Maple 'Halcyon' LP-1SS

It features Lace Dissonant Aggressor pickups, modern wiring and two coil-split push/pull volume controls (no treble bleed)

The build diary can be seen here: trv's Spalted Maple LP-1SS

Upgraded parts:
- Grover Keystone tuners
- Modified Gibson truss rod cover
- Graphtech TUSQ nut
- Switchcraft 3-way toggle switch
- Lace Dissonant Aggressor pickup set
- Gotoh Tune-o-matic bridge
- Gotoh 'Stop' tailpiece
- CTS push/pull DPDT 500K volume pots & CTS 500K tone control pots
- Orange Drop .022uF caps
- Switchcraft output jack
- Grover strap buttons
- Various guards, rings, knobs, etc.

Finish:
- Minwax Oriental Ginger, Saman Hop & Saman Black stain
- Sunburst painted with Createx Wicked Jet Black airbrush paint
- Tru-Oil finish (38-44 coats depending on the area of the guitar, not counting touch-ups)
- Hand cut celluloid logo inlay
- Screen printed wordmark

Pics:

[trv]

Cont'd:

[rook]

Here is my first attempt at building a kit: the Spalted Maple 'Halcyon' LP-1SS

DUDE! This look killer. I love it. Amazing work. The top is so great.

[pablopepper]

Holy crap. Rook and TRV, you guys have knocked it out of the goddamned park. Both of those guitars are incredible.