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goatis 1
30-08-2013, 10:55 AM
ok , so i got a mocking bird kit with the 1st birthday sale the other week :D ( thanks go to the pitbull crew ) . Im gonna make it into a guitar i can use for drop tunings .
Plans so far are:
* changing all the hardware to black
* rail humbuckers upgrade 8-)
* far out paint job ( more on that after it happens )
* electronics upgrade
* modified body slightly
* bone or tusq nut upgrade
so far ive done the body mods , really just adding a gut relief and a bit of an arm rest relief . hopefully some paint will go on over the weekend :D
( ill get some pics up when i get some decent batteries for my camera )
robin
30-08-2013, 11:18 AM
Hi Angus, and welcome to the PBG Family.
Your plans for the Mockingbird sound most interesting, can't wait to see how she looks. Enjoy the build mate.
cheers
rob
Welcome to the pbg clan Angus .take your time and enjoy your build and you will end up with a fantastic guitar
goatis 1
30-08-2013, 01:03 PM
cheers folks , should be interesting . this is my first "pointy" guitar ( ive got a bunch of others , strats , teles and other things ) , and my first kit . usually i either modify/rebuild from a junker , or get a neck and start the body from scratch ( been meaning to make some necks to , but havent got the facilities atm ).
gavinturner
31-08-2013, 11:09 PM
Welcome Angus! I don't think I've read a MB build thread before so I'm excited to hear all about yours. Hope you have a great time building her!
Cheers,
Gavin.
Welcome Angus - with a name like that I hope you do an SG kit!
looking forward to the MB, enjoy
goatis 1
11-09-2013, 07:18 AM
8O PROGRESS !!!!!
parts have been ordered and some arrived
paints been painted , the bodies mostly black now , gotta wait for some better weather to finish it off
necks been sanded down some , and i done this to the headstock to make it more " metal " 8-)
hopefully i can get some more done on it now ( a lot of times been taken up car fixing :S )
@ stan , an SG might be a kit for down the track , my next one tho (when i can scrape the pennies together ) will be a beatle bass , have wanted one for at least a decade and being more a bassist than anything and i should increase my bass count .
http://pitbullguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/yvn9r-headstock.png
goatis 1
11-09-2013, 07:19 AM
oh , and i was thinking of putting the tuners in on an angle to ( so the buttons close to the neck than the rest of the tuner ) , but i forgot to set them up when i took the pic , does any one see any reason why this wont work ?
wokkaboy
11-09-2013, 07:35 AM
Hi Angus, headstock looks cool, you got any pics of the body ?
Angled tuners the only negative may be not being able to get a string winder rotate a full 360 degrees, otherwise it will look original !
Maybe take a photo with the tuners on the headstock for some forum feedback so we can see how far you intend angling them
goatis 1
11-09-2013, 08:46 AM
no body shots as yet , at the moment its just drying so i didnt wanna move it
space enough for a string winder im not to worried about ( tho i did check with mine and it still works ) it took me like 14 years to get one and when i change strings now i usually forget i have it lol , and its going to have locking tuners so i wont need to wind to much string on anyways
http://pitbullguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/30fo5-head-1.jpg
http://pitbullguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/kfa5m-head-2.jpg
wokkaboy
12-09-2013, 12:17 AM
Angus, tuner angles look fine to me, any original look in my books is cool and sets the axe apart from the 'normal' perpendiclar look
Looks cool Angus look forward to the rest of the build
goatis 1
20-09-2013, 12:42 AM
bit of an update ( photos to come )
all the parts have been ordered/sourced , except for a coupla little odds n ends
i had ordered in a cheap black neck plate , thought i was on a winner , =\\ buuut , when i got it the other day i found that it was etched with logos and stuff for Lyon by washburn , so ill be getting anothery down the track
necks been defretted and de nutted ( crossed my legs n made a face writing that =\\ )
and its had a coupla coats of stuff put on it , looking dam nice to , almost a bit of a flame starting on it .
been thinking about either staining the front of the headstock black or ordering in a headstock veneer of something
still waiting around for decent weather to blow another coupla coats of black onto the body , average hi temp here lately has only been around 17 - 19 so no good for spray painting .
ive been trying to decide if i want to use the black rectangle jack plate that i ordered ( the original was a chrome one ) or if i change it to a black tele cup jack
lol as a glutton for punishment , ive semi been thinking about a build using the chrome parts from the kit , since i didnt use any of it
57strummers
23-09-2013, 06:35 AM
Looking nice...
goatis 1
04-10-2013, 11:52 AM
soooo , neck halfish done , gotta put some colour the front of the headstock , thatll be tomorrows job if things go well . then just have to get another ( bone ) nut and do a re-fret
(pic doesnt sho it , buut theres some nice grain in the neck
bodies almost done , only a little bit of undercoat shows through , shouldnt be to much work left on it , sanding all the curves of it is a hassle though :? :? :?
(gonna make myself some curved sanding blocks of various size and curves to help with that in the future)
:) and i coloured in my switch with a sharpie , might get another permanent marker and go over it again though because the sharpie has a bronze hue to the black in the right light
weekends jobs might be soldering what i can of the controls , and probably drill the body out a little bit so the pots and switch fit a bit better ( im using upgraded full size bourne pots ) especially when i put the shielding in .
hopefully the pickups arrive soon , been waiting around like blackboard from mr squiggle for them (huuuuuurrryyyy UUUUUUUUUUP )
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