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Fs1 first build ever
Hi there. I m alex from Greece. A month ago i ordered my first kit ever. An fs1. Unfortunately i m from greece , and i didnt considered the total cost by ordering from australia. For a 153 euro kit , i' ve paid ( including taxes and shipping cost) a total of 300 euro. I hope worths it.
A first overall impression is really good. The things i m worried the most, was some glue spots on the headstock and on the sides of he body, that despite sanding seemed to be there forever. So not sure what kind of glue was used .
Some imperfections on the binding , and the 5 piece body which was not mention on the description. Its a hollowbody and it seems rather to be filled in with scrapwood rather than been routed out.
The overall thoughs thought ,are good enough. Good flame maple top veeneer, right mesurments, very well shaped.
I ve cut the headstock to a strat style and considering to use a gibson standard humbucker set i use to have.
I used Clou water based stains for coloring. Now i m in the fifth coat of clou oil (hartol) which hopefully its close to true oil which is not available in greece and its really difficult to find similar products in the market. Considering applying two or three more coats of oil and then ready to start setting things up..
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Hello! Hope your build goes well. We are very lucky in Australia to get free shipping!
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Attachment 28417 backside still in progress
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Attachment 28418 hartol by clou (not tru oil but i think it works
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Love the stressed blue finish, very nice!
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Very nice work Mate! lovely colour!
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Thanks guys. Hopefully in a couple of days i m starting setting things up.
I m quite disappointed because i stained the binding and i thought that with a scraper i could remove the stain completely from there , but unfortunatelly a messy blue coloring there is now on bibding. If i had to do a clear coat on that guitar I wouldn t be happy at all. Now that i have this semi-satin finish with the distressed blue i m not that worried because it kind mathes the slightly distresses look.
Its my first build and i didnt want to spent much time on it and in details by thinking any possible failure and be as carefull i could get. Its an experiment to see how things works