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welcome to the forum HoneyBadger, well what kit have you ordered and where are you from ?
Welcome Honey Badger.
I don't suppose you are this guy....
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/...38_306x423.jpg
Hi blokes, my profile live in Melbourne. Played for 30 years. Opinionated. Seen the first ever Loolaplozza tour in US.I am buildind this for my brother, a Navy Vet who looks after PTSDY Vet, post tramatc stress vets. I am building a Tele , Quitded veneer, with Dingo Blue, No upgrades. But I will finish in French Polish. because a Tele is a tobe guitar.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoneyBadgerJM
sounds good Honeybadger, start a build diary when the kit arrives and ask any questions you have there
best of luck with the build and sounds like your brother needs a cool gift like a tele !
Anybody willing to help the uneducated?
Quote "a Tele is a tobe guitar".
TOBE = ???
Hey Corky must be a typo. Sure HB will confirm
Hi Fellas typo, Tone Guitar, I meant a tele is generally for those wanting a clean Treble/Tone. So I am not going to finish it in a thick Varnish which would not allow it to breath and kill the natural tone of the wood. So by going old school on the finish similiar to pre 1930 guitar production, I will give it a chance to maximise that tone I want, remember this is for those first timers so sure could improve pick ups for tone but that is a cost a first timer might not want.
nice correction Honeybadger. Look forward to the build diary
The Kit arrived today, Very, Very impressed. Where to start, nicely packaged , I like the way all the screws are iin individual compartments. Dingo Tone coat heaps of gloves. Really nice touch Ernie Ball strings, but whats just as good it also has the cheap chinese ones, which having built another kit from other supplier in the past learnt that you generally break the high E when setting it up. So will use the cheapies to set it up and play them till they break then put on the Ernie Balls.
The Kit in question is the the TL-1HA, I requested a White Pearloid Scratch plate, which I got, thanks Adam. I also asked for chrome hardware, which I got and it has white binding....NOICE. However piece of feedback the neck I expected was supposed to be with a Rosewood fretboard as per discription, I got a Maple Neck with Maple fretboard, it is discriped as Maple but the neck looks Mahogany, at least compared to my Guinuine 2010 Fender Stat with is Maple with Maple fret.
BUT I am glad it is as I wanted it to be Maple..Just feedback to Adam.
BTW I am a terrible, terrible spella.
nice one Honeybadger would love to see some pics of the kit you scored. Thought you said it had a quilted maple veneer earlier ? unless it's a custom order. So your kit has 2 humbuckers ? The body should be alder and the neck maple. If it is mahogany it has a light brown colour to it, much darker than maple.
Will Do Fozzy(The Bear......You get it),just working out file photo size, any hints?? Tried too upload but computer says no!Too big I assume.
Hi HB, resolution has to be lower than 1500 each side of the image and below 1MB in size.
Just resize it and Windows should tell you the new size and resolution
haha I haven't been called Fozzy yet bwhahahhaha cheers
THX will do, just worked it out regards fret board/Neck got The Thinline Tele neck .
heres the photo comparison to my Fender Strat, maple neck it has turned a deep honey color.Attachment 12956
wow that's bizaar Honeybadger, that neck does look mahogany with maple fingerboard, you can see the difference in colour. Some nice quilt what I can see.
good score I reckon that will look a treat !
that is a pretty nice kit, that tele body should come up a treat
Issue I will have is the neck timber is a darker shade then the body timber. Since this is a stain, with a French polish finish need to balance the amount of neck to body stain finish. There is some really nice grain on the neck. Finish will be Bondi blue. I also don't like the neck to be vanished, I sand down smooth my necks Ala John Mayer. SRV. So I have a Mahogany Neck with nice grain with a Maple fret board. And I wanted this to be a beginners build.....:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by stan
so HB will the neck and body be bondi blue ? you will just have to apply it and see what the colour difference is like and make adjustments from there. Another option is shape your headstock and with the offcuts do some test stains of the bondi on the mahogany to see how the colour compares to the body. If it is too far out you may consider a clear neck mabe ?
Good Idea regards offcuts , thats the way to go. Dont mind if neck and body different color, Body Bondi Blue, for the body. The neck can go a deeper color, I dont mind how its done on Burst Top Les Pauls, a Gold burst for example then the solid deep red type on the back.
So depending on test stains will be Bondi Blue Front with the deeper color on back and neck.
sounds good HB
Copper Shielding.
I have started to copper shield the Pick Guard laid the first strip on right then realised its a Tele Plate so only sheild the pick up area....The Strat plate needs full shielding...Why sheild, it cuts down on RF interference, Radio Interference. Which can make pickups feedback in wantedly. The control plate route areas all will be shielded. I got the shield vis Dingo....Want a cheap option use superglue and Alluminium foil,,, But for $6 bucks a great investment versus say $3 for Al foil.Attachment 12988
Moved on to the shielding the pick up routes and also started the Bondi Blue stain.
Attachment 13012
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While waiting for the body to cure, using Dingo Blue, got to work on the neck stain...What stain did I use??
You have ideas before you start then they go out the window, decided on natural looking neck, accoustic stlye, Neck had nice grain and is mahogany was inspired by what Gibson do, plus have seen others use shoe polish , its cheap contains Canaubra Wax and its Different.
Attachment 13049
Attachment 13047Attachment 13048
It's certainly come up well, did you apply with the shoe brush or by sponging/ragging it on? (not actually trying to be funny, just curious)
shoe polish never heard of that trick HB, it has come up nicely on the mahogany !
the blue looks nice, and will and shoe polish to my trips and tricks folder...
Just used a rag and rubbed it in,
Like I have said from start, cheap build , also the whole Mohogany neck v Flame body was confusing, bottom line is this is a tone guitar. No arcylic, etc
Did you have to water down the shoe polish somehow? The neck must smell "interesting" now.
(BTW, I don't think that neck is mahogany, the grain looks like the Chinese maple the rest of the necks are. I could be wrong, but I've never seen mahogany that looks like that.)
Hey Fretty I reckon the neck is mahogany, if you look at the pics posted before look how much darker the headstock is compared to the maple fingerboard. Could be wrong
No just used a cloth similar to any oil, but small amounts, many coats as wokka said if you see earlier pics you get an idea. Neck smells like a Footy boot. Got the idea off another site. The idea is too keep the neck very resonant. But also a way to explore cheap ass options, the idea behind this build is cheap hacks so to speak.
:| Goddamn. I hope it doesn't smell like one of my footy boots.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoneyBadgerJM
haha good one Franken, well what about the lastest Aussie motorsport drivers craze doing a 'shoey' - fill your race boot with champagne and skull it hahha
I once was forced to Skoll a complete pint from the 4th Grade premiership trophy we had just won. Pretty sure that hadn't been cleaned since the last time it had been awarded (or possibly the first time it had been awarded). I imagine that would probably be in the same league of grossness.Quote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
ahha funny story Franken, you should have at least had the trophy rinsed before the pint was poured. There was probably cobwebs, dust, dead insects in there - ewwwwwwwwwwwwww
What was the sport Franken rugby ?
yeah, rugby union, However did you guess? By the time we got to that stage we had been "Celebrating Enthusiastically" for about 4 hours already.Quote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
Spiders favorite Home, I would throw the boots around as a kid like 5 times to ensure no spiders inside.
Potting Pick ups,ITS WAX!!! not P*ss. All this is $2 shop Tea Light candles melted down in an old jar, placed on a hot sandwich press, or you can use a Electric frypan.WAX IS FLAMMABLE, dont use an OPEN FLAME, Place the pick ups in for 15 minutes or until the bubbles stop coming out of the pick up.. WAX must be BELOW 60 C, ie you can put your finger in it for a few secs.
The REASON.... Potting the pickup forces the AIR out of the pick up and also stabilizes the wires inside the pick which can vibrate and produce En Harmonic feedback, not good Jimi Hendrix Feedback but bad feedback.This is common in Chinese pick ups and will make them sound heaps better.
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good mini tutorial HB