AJs Build LP-1

"Simplest" option - can you make a stencil of the text and spray paint / use small brush and some good oil based paint?
Option 2: my wife and I used a heat sensitive gold embossing powder from Lincraft in making our wedding invites. This adheres to wet ink then melts with the right amount of heat. Small tub, but we bought it 10+ years ago so I don't know how much for, but goes a long way. Nice effect - poss could grab something right off the printer and apply the dust, (or photocopy onto the paper then heat, apply dust), then heat with something like a heatgun... - not sure how this would be done - may want to check with the decal paper people to see what heat it can handle. Needs some heat from something like a heatgun, but how much and for how long... not sure. Maybe the decal stuff for laser printers may be less heat sensitive?
Option 3: have you got a partner with a good hand for caligraphy? I think DB put around a link for some images of someone's telecaster on Imgur where it looks like a number of signatures were made on the back of the guitar in permanent marker - may be a call for cavalry? (long bow I know).
Option 4:trying to think of something simple and not fiddly like #2, but will be able to be applied to the headstock. Still drawing blanks...

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Quote from Brendan on April 26, 2013, 20:54
"Simplest" option - can you make a stencil of the text and spray paint / use small brush and some good oil based paint?
Option 2: my wife and I used a heat sensitive gold embossing powder from Lincraft in making our wedding invites. This adheres to wet ink then melts with the right amount of heat. Small tub, but we bought it 10+ years ago so I don't know how much for, but goes a long way. Nice effect - poss could grab something right off the printer and apply the dust, (or photocopy onto the paper then heat, apply dust), then heat with something like a heatgun... - not sure how this would be done - may want to check with the decal paper people to see what heat it can handle. Needs some heat from something like a heatgun, but how much and for how long... not sure. Maybe the decal stuff for laser printers may be less heat sensitive?
Option 3: have you got a partner with a good hand for caligraphy? I think DB put around a link for some images of someone's telecaster on Imgur where it looks like a number of signatures were made on the back of the guitar in permanent marker - may be a call for cavalry? (long bow I know).
Option 4:trying to think of something simple and not fiddly like #2, but will be able to be applied to the headstock. Still drawing blanks...

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Thanks Brendan,
had a think about gilding.. too much mucking around and a bit fiddly for a not so nimble fella like me.. Also dont think the nicro - lacquer will take heat all that well either. So will go down the rout of a decal buried under a few coats of top coat.
the body is now to the stage of letting harden up then glue the neck
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AJ - I'm jealous - it looks too good to do anything that may risk that lovely colour. Understand about the fiddly. I agree - the decal looks like the best option. Looking at the kit again, the pickup surrounds look yellow, so a decal should pick that up anyway.

Wow looking great,great color & finish

I'm loving that colour, great work!

Amazing colour, AJ, looks great.

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Quote from WeirdBits on April 28, 2013, 00:49
Amazing colour, AJ, looks great.

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Made up some decals, reverse printed them and then tried my hand at a bit of gilding on them.. thought they turned out ok so stuck them on the headstock , then sprayed a coat of clear over... seems I was a little "careless when trying the gilding for the first time... but have left them on, look ok from a yard or two..lol will post a pickie later on. Also got the shielding completed in the switch cavities.. note to self next time buy more than a meter of the copper tape.

got around to cut/polish the backside of the body also.. now need to do sides and front.

got the rest of the body polished up now, just building up coats on the headstock now to burry the decals (they are a tad rough, but this is my first attempt at this
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a slightly better picture of the headstock

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Wow AJ, it looks awesome mate. Brilliant for a first (or 50th) build.

Cheers
rob

That is so damn shiny there AJ, the decal looks terrific!!!!

Looking great AJ.
The headstock logo is a real beauty, nice to see you putting your name on the build :D

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Quote from dingobass on May 6, 2013, 16:31
The headstock logo is a real beauty, nice to see you putting your name on the build :D

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Gavmeister could learn from this guy :P :D 8-)

Love the gloss finish & the headstock logo looks great!

AJ - love the guilding - looks great on the headstock - you've done a great job. Ultimately if there's anything wrong with the guilding and they get within a metre, you're obviously not rocking hard enough ;) !

Naah - great job - love the eagle! Go Manly!

Thanks guys for all the great comments, tomorrow might try to glue the neck in, but am a "little worried about the scale length.... when I did the trial fit, I got a measurement the same as the middle of the 12 th fret to the front of the saddle assembly, not the center of the saddle ..will that be ok or do I need to look into why?
next item is the saddle, I have seen some on the internet and stew macks where the adjustment is made from the rear, not like in the vids here where it shows the adjustment screws facing the pickups? will that make any difference or is that just for ease of adjusting?
do we have a resident Luther here that resides in Vic? if not might have to give Dingobass a telephone call to ask a few Q's :D

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Quote from AJ on May 6, 2013, 21:02

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Hi AJ.

There is a slight difference of about 3-4mm with the scale measurement from the 12th to the bridge.
This is called compensation and it is quite OK.

With the bridge, you may notice that some of the grooves are larger, so this will indicate which way round the bridge goes.
If all the grooves are the same then put it with the screws facing the pup, it will be easier to adjust intonation this way.

got side tracked again today, but started to mount the vol and tone pots. After reviewing and down loading the wiring diagram, I noticed that the one here is different to the one published at the wiring site. the main diff is where the filter cap goes in the circuit. the Wiring from here, the cap goes to earth on the tone pot with a direct connection between the vol and the tone on lug 1 .. the area in the red is from the Gibson style wiring.. which is the better one to use for the LP-1?

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Toss a coin, AJ..... there are more ways to wire up guitars than you could believe possible! :D

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Quote from dingobass on May 7, 2013, 20:33
Toss a coin, AJ..... there are more ways to wire up guitars than you could believe possible! :D

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2up any one? lol so there is a karma-suet-era of guitar wiring...lol ot oh... too many choices for me now...

Looks like the good news is that with so many choices there doesn't seem to be a wrong one...

Good luck & hope the sound reflects the look of the guitar - you've done a great job.

Go with the layout that you are the most comfortable with.. 8-)

Do whatever suits you best AJ, Gibson wire their controls like the GE schematic you found, either way is 100% fine, as long as the required connections are there (the GE schematic is good to use if you have Paper in Oil caps, they are bigger, and can fit in the gap!)

wired up the guitar today, as per the pitbull wiring diagram. Tested ok. have not screwed in the pup's yet, tomorrow will do that when I can put the tuning pegs on and string it up ... then comes the getting all the adjustments correct etc..

Excellent stuff AJ, It is so satisfying to plug in and play that first chord.. :D

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Quote from dingobass on May 8, 2013, 20:11
Excellent stuff AJ, It is so satisfying to plug in and play that first chord.. :D

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I'm just busting to get ready for my LP to breath into life!!!

a-ha!.. it's fully together now... strung and basic tuning.. will let it settle with the kit strings for a while then go through and make sense of the setting up properly. All strings atm are a tad sharp at the 12th, but once I get the string height correct, should be pretty close. will post a pickie later. :P 8-)

not to sure this will be a good enough standard to enter the GOTM, think I am satisfied with the finish.. the light here in the house doesn't seem to do it any real justice.

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Wow....

AJ, if you get a piece of black cloth and lay the guitar on it under a window that lets in a clear light (not direct sunlight), you will be able to get some amazing pictures of this gorgeous axe. :D

Just gorgeous!

Looks fabulous>
Carl

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Quote from Gavin1393 on May 9, 2013, 19:37
Just gorgeous!

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Well done AJ that looks sensational. Look forward to well lit photos! Definitely worth entering GOTM June!

Congrats AJ, that is a guitar to be proud of.

rob

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Quote from Gavin1393 on May 9, 2013, 19:37
Just gorgeous!

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Those 2 words are all that is needed to describe how damn awesome that LP looks... The decal is one of the things that made me want to vote for it it GOTM!!!!
Seriously awesome work AJ, Keep it up with the next build!

ty for all the great comments, I have now bought a sheet set for the boy... Black..lol he will get them after I have used it for the "Pickies".. ;)

One last question from me now, maybe a little "dumb one" so to say.. every thing seems to work nicely, good tone etc every so slight occasional fret buz on the 6th string, once I get the string height set that will vanish..
the thing that has me puzzled tho, is when you turn the volume to zero on the neck pup, then select the bridge pup, it has nil out put till you get the neck pup off of the zero possy..??? If you do the tap test with both volumes off of zero, with the bridge pup selected, only the that one works .. as it should .. do I need to investigate further?? 8O

AJ, can you give us a link to the diagram that you followed when putting together the electronics?

It may reflect back to your earlier query about the "filter". But it seems like you may have reversed the volume and tone pots or somehow created a "master colume" control inadvertedly.

A couple of close ups of the wiring may also help.

yes , that what it seems like, a master vol control. Both vol pots are the 500 "B", and the tonne pots are the 500 ohm "A". wiring diagram used link is http://pitbullguitars.com/wp-content...12/08/LP-1.pdf

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Awesome looking guitar AJ, looks like June GOTM will be another tough one to judge...

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Quote from stui on May 11, 2013, 14:13
Awesome looking guitar AJ, looks like June GOTM will be another tough one to judge...

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ty Stui.
changed out the toggle switch and also made up a 4 wire shielded lead , seems to have fixed the problem to an extent. The new 3 way switch is sorta working, then not :? will give it a little bit of time to settle in now.. Fitted the Pit bull brand of strings now also.

Hi AJ

Thanks for posting your wiring diagram as well as the pictures.
DB and I have had a discussion and these are our suggestions.

1.) Since you have sheilded the cavity of the guitar it is unnecessary for you to have run the copper wires between each of the pots. They are already grounded by the sheilding. Please remove these copper wires.
2.) the Pitbull wiring diagram shows all the grounds being attached to Pots, this is pretty important. I think if you remove the grounds from your copper groundings and attach them to the correct pots you will have better control over where the ground path is going and in so doing avoid the dreaded double grounding issues.
3.) remove the ground wire from the 3 way switch. The switch is only used to handle the signals from the bridge pickup and the neck pickup and to route either one or both to the output Jack.
4.) this is merely our preference, but the diagram you have used for the LP is more of a fender style tone pot configuration where the capacitor is attached to the middle output lug of the pot and then directly to ground. DB and I prefer the Gibson method of attaching the capacitor between the volume control and the tone control. There are many diagrams showing this configuration.

We'd suggest trying out the first three steps. Let us know how it goes.