ST-1

Wudtone Vintage Blonde
Vintage Amber neck
All parts stock Pitbull Guitars

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Finished in Wudtone Surfer Girl
Standard except Graph Tech Tusq Nut.
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This was done by my 11 yo nephew. With a little guidance. All drilling screwing painting cutting sanding sanding and sanding were done by him.
Needless to sAy I'm now his favorite uncle.
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ST-1, all stock
Body Wudtone Azure Sky 50/50 with white base and high gloss finish with no ageing or tints
Neck Wudtone Vintage Amber

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[Excuse the shadow..]
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Not quite finished.. I put a different neck on from an old cheap guitar because the stock one was loose, I can't wait to play this thing. Attachment 1447

Pitbull Guitars ST-1 Kit
Tonerider Pure Vintage Pickups
Pearloid Pickguard
Parchment volume, tone knobs and switch
Vintage Style Tuners
Bourns 250k Mini Pots
CLR 5 way switch
Vintage style cloth wiring
Lake Placid Blue Nitrocellulouse finish body
Clear '60's tint Nitrocellulouse finish neck
DB "F" Style Bone Nut
Switchcraft jack
the rest is Pitbull guitar standard
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The Count
All standard kit parts, acrylic yellow from Supercheap, FW maple stain ( from somewhere that must never be mentioned ) on the neck.

I'm about to take the neck off to get a better finish and do a full setup.

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I already have a strat so I wanted something a little different and seeing as I love the head shape and through body arrangement on tele's I thought I would combine both. I had to replace the first body as I had an oops moment converting to a through body so there was a bit of a delay and I was in a pickle about what colour so I put a bit of a stain on the neck but left the body natural and once I got it to where I wanted in by sanding and put about 7 thin coats of Tru-oil on with light sanding with 0000 steel wool between coats after the third just to level out any imperfections. Didn't want a high gloss and the final coat I just rubbed down with a very fine scotch-brite to remove some slight bumps but not enough to dull finish which left it smooth. Levelled frets and polished and used 2 good coats of almond oil on rosewood to protect wood, installed bone nut and Wilkinson tuners. I used a Kent Armstrong Motherbucker as I found the idea of being able to run in series,split and parallel novel but found the wiring was a nightmare until I got my head around it due to the lack of clear instructions. Have 1 volume to be used to roll off when played loud, or so the instructions say and have a Gibson styled switch with home made ally knob so I can have 1 or both coils running. Its not a show winner hence low quality pics but I thought someone might be interested and if someone wanted help with this sort of wiring I can help explain.

ST-1 with Carvings and Pyrography, by Frank

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Thought that I would contribute a couple of pics of my Gold Strat STA-1M build, so here we go:

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And here's a closeup pic of the new Full Contact System bridge that I installed a few days ago, I know it's a silver one but I will be swapping it out for a gold one later on this year:

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