The hole routed for the JBass pup that came with the kit was way off position and would have need re-routing so I decided to replace it with a humbucker pickup(nothing special just an old ebay special I had lying around)
The rear pickup hole was re-sized with dremmel and super sharp chisel.
You can also see where I drilled the holes for the upgraded bridge in the wrong spot and had to plug them re-mark and re-drill....
The plugs will be hidden under the bridge so wont be seen.
Had to make a larger pickup surround to cover the hole from the j Bass pickup.
Had some old scrap stainless steel left over from fitting out my boat so cut and shaped it for an under pickup surround.
I forgot how jolly hard stainless steel is... Took forever to cut and went through 19 dremel carbon cut-off wheels....
It polished up OK with 1200 wet n dry emery cloth.
If rest of build turns out OK and I like playing the guitar I will spend the dollars and get some custom pick ups from Orpheus Pick-Ups.
David from Orpheus has made custom pups for me before and they are amazing.
I did as mentioned upgrade the bridge. (Pitbull by far are the cheapest place to buy Babicz bridges)
In my first post I said I was wanting to get a green stain on the timber and posted a picture of someone else guitar.
I tried several stains on old bits of pine I had and ended up going with airbrush paint as sold by Aldi...
I am really happy with the colour and at present are sealing with wipe on poly by Feast Watson
wow, that green is really vibrant!
Build 19 PSH-1 Kustom
Build 18 HB-4S Kustom
Build 17 WL-1 Kustom
Build 16 TL-1TB Kustom
Build 15 PBG-2-
Build 14 FTD-1
Build 13 RD-1 Kustom
Build 12 DM-1S
Build 11 MKA-2 -
Build 10 Basic strat
Build 9 JM Kustom
Build 8 FV-1G
Build 7 ES-2V
Build 6- Community prototype
Build 5 LP-1LQ
Build 4 ES-5V
Build 3 JR-1
Build 2 GD-1
Build 1 TLA-1
She is shaping up to be something rather special!
Grain on the back is stunning with that colour scheme.
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# 1 - EX-5 https://goo.gl/fQJMqh
# 2 - EX-1 https://goo.gl/KSY9W9
# 3 - Non PBG Tele https://goo.gl/W14G5g
# 4 - Non PBG J Bass https://goo.gl/FbBaFy
# 5 - TL-1AR GOTM Aug 2017 https://goo.gl/sUh14s
# 6 - MMB-4 Runner-up GOTM Oct 2018https://goo.gl/gvrPkp
# 7 - ES-1 Runner-up GOTM Aug 2018https://goo.gl/T9BEY8