Rocktober!!! Gotm

[DarkMark]

Wow, that looks like a flame paint job... phemomenal!

Thanks, the stain can certainly changes it’s appearance depending on the lighting, makes it hard to take a representative photo.

[blinddrew]

Great job DarkMark, been looking forward to seeing this done.

[DarkMark]

Great job DarkMark, been looking forward to seeing this done.

Thanks Blinddrew, I certainly benefited from your diary.

[Old Tooth Hopkins]

Phenomenal job. Did you bind the f holes yourself or does it come with binding?


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[DarkMark]

[QUOTE=Old Tooth Hopkins;171693]Phenomenal job. Did you bind the f holes yourself or does it come with binding?

Thanks Old Tooth Hopkins. The kit comes with f hole binding. Your avatar looks a lot like the fret board on my Ibanez Artcore.

[Old Tooth Hopkins]

[QUOTE=DarkMark;171694]

Phenomenal job. Did you bind the f holes yourself or does it come with binding?

Thanks Old Tooth Hopkins. The kit comes with f hole binding. Your avatar looks a lot like the fret board on my Ibanez Artcore.

It is a picture of an Ibanez artcore. Great guitar.


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[wazkelly]

Next entry for Rockotober is my MMB4 that has been on the go since March 2017.

http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...764#post171764 for Build Diary.

https://youtu.be/fbjI0MssJtc for sound demo.

Not too many original kit bits ended up being used other than neck & body, bridge, control plate & screws, neck plate & bolts.

Some of the modifications included:
Rounded over the side profile by hand using 80 & 120 grit sand paper.
MM 5 string headstock shape used without the offset 5th string tuner hole
Allparts 4 in Line Bass Tuner Set
Allparts Tele style Chrome Electrosocket Jack Plate
PBG Bone Nut
Chrome 3 string retainer
GFS MM Pro Plus- Alnico Music Man style pickup
Belcat Pre-Amp
Jaycar mini DPDT on-off-on pickup coil split switch
Straplocks
Finished with well over 30 coats of Tru Oil

[wazkelly]

And a few more....

[geddyfan]

That's a really beautiful bass...funny, when I look at this, I am reminded of Ibanez basses from the late seventies and early eighties that I used to lust after...

[Dedman]

Decided to call this finished before I over did it.
PGB-2 kit.
The only real mod is filling in the stop tail holes so I could fit the replica Teisco tail piece. Bridge is a combination of parts from a gold roller bridge and a black one. Pick ups are GFS Gold Foils which where previously in the Community prototype build ( now onto its 3rd makeover). Pots are Alphas, 250 on the single coil, a 500 push pull splitting the humbucker. Knobs are Marshal amp knobs. Brass nut. Tuners are Grovers with gold nuts and screws from a set of kit tuners. I cut the headstock shape with a hole saw in a pedestal drill.
Paint is auto acrylic, its a dark blue metallic pearl on the front which flip flops to dark purple in different light. There is a black burst on the edges which is just visible as I mixed some of the blue in the first clear coats. On the back is a large print of one of my 3D renders which I tried to blend into the black, even with umpteen layers of clear the edges are still visible.. oh well, it was an experiment.
Anyway it plays and sounds nice, the tail piece is a right pain the string up. I resorted to putting all the strings in and holding them in place with a bit of tape until they had tension on them, then reaching in with bent tweezers an pulling the tape out.