Wokka's Dorkers tribute Beer Label Axe

might as well start a build diary, this was my last spare ST body trying out some new paint, 1st pic is 1st coat sanded with mirror pickguard. Last 2 pics are after 2nd coat. Ran out of light due to being on the net over 2 hours today with the PBG sale !
The body didn't have a neck till the sale. Now I got 3 ST kits supercheap its sorted. Will be painting the headstock in chrome, not sure yet if I'll paint the neck chrome too, any suggestions ?
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My 2c Wokka - leave the neck a more traditional neck colour for contrast. My vote would be natural. That chrome paint job will look fully sick once the clear coats are on :).

cheers,
Gav.

satin black neck Wokka!

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cheers Gav and Stan, at this stage I was thinking natural clear neck

i tried this as well Wokka .....couldnt get the Chrome finish i wanted,it ended up more silver than chrome
-and after i sprayed a clear coat over it it went grey ! ..... there is a product out there that can create a chrome/ mirror finish like a dip - im trying to find a supplier

I've also dabbled with chrome but ended up with 80's glam rock silver. Hoping you've found a product that will satiate our shiny metallic needs with out me having to perm what's left of my hair and wear beer coolers on my wrists and biceps.........

If this is a copy of Keith Urban's "Silver", then it needs to be a string thru...... ;)

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/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from Gavin1393 on August 31, 2014, 23:34
If this is a copy of Keith Urban's "Silver", then it needs to be a string thru...... ;)

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Also one less pickup, and a tele headstock. Such a cool mongrel guitar.
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I'm liking where this is going Wokka. Wondered when I'd see that pickguard. :)

cheers fellas. Yes Pablo I was waiting to find a colour for the chrome mirror pickguard.
We'll have to wait and see what colour it looks like after clear coats. Hoping it will only need one more colour coat

got a fair bit done today, wet sanded and got 5th colour coat on, starting to get chromey now
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Far out man that looks epic!

cheers Andrew, should look pretty cool with Pablo's mirror pickguard and trem cover and a few clear coats

I like how this is going. Great work on the paint, looks super smooth.

cheers Pablo, the edges are smoother than the back and front, hoping one more wet sand and coat and should be on the clear coats

looks great Wokka, very shiney, nice job

cheers Stan, should be shiney after 5 colour coats, I'm getting sick of all the wet sanding !

me too,had a paint reaction on the LP for my sister ( did a nitro coat too thick and it crazed all the way through and into the colour on the back) : all paint including about 10 coats of nitro have to come off - that stuff dries hard...

Looking amazing Wokka. Wil be great with a few clear coats!

cheers,
Gav.

cheers Gav, yeah looking forward to clear coats

Looking shiningly argent Wokka.
No mention of the hardware or its colour yet . . . ?

@ Max, I got a mirror pickguard made by Pablo and will use the chrome hardware. Got tonerider city limits and may upgrade switch, pots and cut a bone nut

Lookin' choice Wokka, keep it up!

cheers Barge, looks like I got a lot more research to do on a clear coat that will keep the paint bright and shiny, I got some help from Shane (username Calais) can hopefully point me in the right direction.

got some more work done on the chromey build Friday. Painted pup covers and control knobs chrome and put all the electronics on the chrome pickguard. Since the clear coat dulled the body a bit and some parts went grey on the back I decided not to clear the headstock. What a mistake I accidentally spilled a heap of turps on it and went to rub it off and made a mess of the headstock. Might have to sand it back and recoat it and waste a vinyl logo - doh !
Here's how it looked before I stuffed up !

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Bit of a bummer about that headstock bro, luckily a man of your talent will have it back on track in no time. Looking sweet though man, I'm really digging the whole chrome theme.

Looks sweet as Wokka!

wow i really like this one wokka

Woks, you know you should have only had a neck and middle single coil on this.....

cheers for the comments Barge, Tim, Stan and Gavmeister.
@ Gavmeister I didn't want a Keith Urban axe and the bridge pup is my favourite sound !
@ Barge yeah I'll have to rub the headstock back and repaint it. It was my last vinyl logo so I need to order more

Couple of weekends ago I put a second clear coat on the body and the clear cracked/rejected so it was hanging for 2 weeks with no plans other than sand it back to bare wood.
Then my 4D buddy Popeye has a brilliant brain wave yesterday - while drinking beer - lets soak beer labels and stick them on the chrome axe !
So this is how far we got yesterday. Need to add some more labels on and eventually glue down any proud bits and get a clear coat over it.
Still not sure if I'll use the chrome pickguard or might have another crack at a chrome axe I got a spare ST-1 kit I might try again with better quality auto paint

Thumbs up there Wokka! Great job.

cheers Fretty, what I can't work out is it took us 3.5 years to think of this idea !

Damn that looks awesome. Woks, Popeye may be onto something!!!

cheers Gav, we have more of these axes planned, have another body with rejected clear, this time we know to soak the labels for more time so they separate from the bottle easier.

Cool idea Woks. Should modify some speed knobs to have bottle cap tops to fit the theme

cheers Tony thats a wicked idea, will look into that !

so Aussie, so cool

cheers Stan, pity probably only 10% of the labels the beers were brewed in Australia.