wow, very nice result!
Sounds like you, AJ and I dont live that far from each other, I am thinking a Pitbull get together might be the go...
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wow, very nice result!
Sounds like you, AJ and I dont live that far from each other, I am thinking a Pitbull get together might be the go...
Hi Stan, yeah AJ lives a few km away. You'll have to give me some time to get a PBG finshed though. lol Although I have my Wedgtail, Eagle 11, and Epi. Down side at my place is my amp is a Behringer Vampire 1200. It only has one input jack. so you would have to listen to each others inabilities.... lol
lol... I have 2 PBG kits and havent started either... Also have a Fender Tele, Squire Strat and a archtop Harmony acoustic that is going to get a Kent Armstrong Jazz pup.... I am lucky enough to have a Fender twin reverb - it has 3 inputs, so we could all rock the house, even if not that well!
1st attempt at setting the intonation, which was really point less as I have to take it all apart to put colour on the body. But I thought I might express my thoughts about this task on a Fender style guitar..... It would be easier to strap two sticks of dynamite to the thing and push the plunger. It has to be at the right intonation for at least 1 millisecond at some stage......LOL It seemed like there were twenty thousand little allen key worm screws to adjust up down and all around. Do not despair I got there in the end. Well close enough. Still not happy with the tremlo. Someone can help with this. How much tension should be on the tremlo springs. This tremlo block is sitting up about 3 mm from the body at the rear of the tremlo block, should this be sitting a little lower, and what is the best way to adjust this. more sping tension or tighten the tremlo body screw a little more.
Cheers PK
wow what model axe is that Paul ? Is it the Eagle 11 in your project list ?
the red strat you are returning looks amazing, might have to try this red shellac
Hi Wokka,
I should have said it was my first attempt at intonating a FENDAR... lol also got to deal with setting neck relief and maybe a couple of frets need leveling.
It's not the Eagle 11, that's a Gibbo set up, piece of pissa to intonate them. ROFL. this is the Future Butterscotch strat with all the beutiful grain. BTW I won't be inking it. I've grain filled it with Pine colour Timbermate slurry. so that has enhanced the grain by itself. I guess that when I put the base coat on that it the filler will soak up the colour leaving the brown grain to stand out.
The Eagle 11 is up and running. I actually have teo Eagle 11's here. I put the Kent Armstrong P90 pickups on son Chris' and the P-rail plus Kent Armstron P90 on mine. I need to do a bit more work on mine as I think the three way is dodgy. either that or I wired the pick ups out of phase. seems to loose volume in the centre position.
.... Oh Hang on, are you refering to the pics on the previous page. Yep the Red strat looks damn nice. I'll have to cut a deal over that I think. :)
The guitar in the case is son Chris' Eagle 11. I call it Eagle 11 as a reference to it's origins which was the Maton Wedgtail. I took the Wedgtail shape, enlarged it a little and put a taper on teh bottom edge of it. :)
Cheers PK
Yep, tighten those body screws a bit and all should be well.Quote:
/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from kells80aus on February 24, 2014, 15:02
1st attempt at setting the intonation, which was really point less as I have to take it all apart to put colour on the body. But I thought I might express my thoughts about this task on a Fender style guitar..... It would be easier to strap two sticks of dynamite to the thing and push the plunger. It has to be at the right intonation for at least 1 millisecond at some stage......LOL It seemed like there were twenty thousand little allen key worm screws to adjust up down and all around. Do not despair I got there in the end. Well close enough. Still not happy with the tremlo. Someone can help with this. How much tension should be on the tremlo springs. This tremlo block is sitting up about 3 mm from the body at the rear of the tremlo block, should this be sitting a little lower, and what is the best way to adjust this. more sping tension or tighten the tremlo body screw a little more.
Cheers PK
Thanks Gav. :)
I was going by a Vid I found on YouTube of some English guy building a Fender with a Warmouth body and Fendre Parts neck. his set up was screw it down and then back a quater. so I guess In my case they aren't down hard enough. :)
Cheers PK
Got some Belcat BHS-94 Black Guitar Alnico V Pickup Hot Rail Blade Strat Pickup comming for this little baby. Ebay, (soorry Adam ya get what ya can when ya can). :D
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/321046238...84.m1497.l2649
Also got a Belcat plaain black Hummbucker for the Bridge. :)
1st coat of Butterscotch(over timbermate) looks OK to me.
http://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-con...t-coat-014.jpg
http://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-con...t-coat-015.jpg
resent pics, C & P into prev message. :P
Oh Yeah meant to mention once I got what I thought was a nice even coat, I went over teh whole body with a clean swabb of cotton just to make sure there were noa areas of runs bubbles or dobbs..
Oh Yeah, I now have a Yellow thumb. blew a hole in a glove. BWAHHHHH
Cheers pk
Buttserscotch is looking nice. This is a great Wudtone colour and the colour depth will increase substantially with subsequent coats. Coming along nicely!
cheers,
Gav.
Hi Gav,
how many coats did you apply. this ash body has soaked up a lot of base coat. the bottle is now half full, I expect I will only get 2 maybe 3 more coats out of it. I alaso found that it is wise not to use fine cotton, a heavier grade might have used less base coat, as I used a few swabbs to do the whole body.
DB/Adam might need to mention what to soak the swabbs in when cleaning up. I tried water,,,, nothing, tried metho, nyada, tried turps, woot. Cleaned up the swabbs nicely.
Cheers PK
Cheers PK
Hey Paul,
I reckon i got about 5-6 coats on, but the Jnr is a much smaller body than your strat. On the positive side, you will find that the first coat soaks up the most Wudtone and that subsequent coats will be much thinner. You should get a few more quite easily. Going well!
cheers,
Gav.
Ok, just made a decision. I have all the gold hardware bits, less the bridge, SO got on ebay and ordered a gold bridge $18, this baby will sport gold tuners, even if the do have an ibanez stamp on the back. Gold jackplate and jack, gold neck plate, gold pickguard screws. But it will have black pickups. I have 2 belcat dual rails for neck and mid pickup and a belcat black sealed humbucker for the bridge. The rails are four wire, and I don't really see much point in splitting them as they are only 12K with both coils in series. the humbucker is only two wire, although I could take the gold cover off another one and shove a black cover on it, it is four wire and is 15.4K.
This would give me the effect of a true single coil neck. however given the dual rails are so hot it would just become a mediocre pickup in single coil mode.
I am still in two minds about the pickguard itself. I have teh cinamon, which looks nice and the black pearloid, both are SSh pickguards. I'll wait until I get teh finish coat on before I decide on which one to use. either would be stunning.with the gold embelishments. I think the gold will set off the Butterscotch body perfectly... :)
I'll also have to decide on teh nob colours. I have a choice of Black, white, gold top hats or Clear... the clears may get the nod here... but we'll see
Cheers PK
applied the second coat this morning after a gap of 30 hours. only used a quarter of the amount of Wudtone that I used on the primary coat. I was even scrapping drops of wudtone out of the lid and putting it back in the bottle.
I should easily get 6,7 or more coats.
Cheers PK
Good work! I know that feeling - conserving every drop of Wudtone! If you like more of a solid colour it is always a good idea. I've had to do it on both my Wudtone builds, but it was worth it.
cheers,
Gav.
Day 3, Coat 3 of Butterscotch. Gave the body a light rub over with 000 Fine Steel wool, then applied the third coat of base coat. Each coat has seen a little more butterscotch colour come into the wood.
This time I drizzled about a 20 cent piece diameter spot onto the Jam Jar lid. Yesterday it was an area about the size of a 50c piece. Today there was no waste of WT. I have been marking the bottle with a felt pen each time I use it. first coat was about 5 mm, this coat was about 2.. of WT used.
Cheers PK
Looking at the pickguard choices and knob choices...
Four colours of pickguard to choose from White of course, Red Pearl(HSH) Black Pearl(SSH) or Cinamon(SSH)
Knob choices are white, black, clear, Gold or Gibbo Golds.
Pick ups are two sets rails, and a Black Humbucker.
http://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-con...guards-001.jpg
weirdest thing. the clear knobs are damn near invisible in that pic....
That cinnamon set looks pretty special. Though it might be a bit much with all the gold hardware.
All looks good man.
Hi Dan, that's why I have that Black Pearl set as a reserve if the Cinamon doesn't gell well I can swap them.
As for the pick ups they can all be swapped around.
Once the body is done I'll do a mock up again. and see how it looks.
Don't forget it is Butterscotch So I am expecting the gold to just about turn invisable.
The real truth will be if the Cinamon makes it look to pale altogether.
Cheers PK
Fourth coat went on this mornig. Looking good.
I think I'll put the gold highlights on tomorrow.
then maybe a few coats over top of that. then Aged Gloss.
Cheers PK
http://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-con...c-DSCN0033.jpg
Looks beautiful PK- I reckon the cinnamon guard will work wonders!
The ash grain looks awesome throught the butterscotch. I reckon you've got the balance just right.
cheers,
Gav.
yes looking a nice colour PK, maybe if you can please post some photos of the pickguards on the body with the neck in place would be better to make a decision which looks best
Thanks Guys, Yep I'll do a mock up before I screw it all to gether.
Cheers PK
love the look of this - cinnamon for me too
Gold Highlights applied. I can't see anything signifcant. maybe it needs multiple coats.
I would counsel not going too crazy with the highlights. They show up at different angles in various lights. I went whack-job crazy with my first build (silver highlights in Surf Green) and found that a second coat was overkill. They also don't disperse as well as the colours, so you can end up with globs where you don't want globs.
But then again I haven't seen your finish yet, so use your best judgement.
hi BG.
I really don't want it globbing. maybe I'll just do another coat or two of Butterscotch. then re-look at the highlights. probably go straight to the finish after another coat or two of Butterscotch. I think Gav said he did about 6-7 coats of BS on his Junior.
Cheers PK
fifth coat of Butterscotch. looking better all the time.
PK
Having looked at the strat this arvo, once the butterscotch has had a good chance to cure. I think that I'll go straight to the clear coat. The darker grain is starting to cloud under teh Butterscotch, so I think I have reached saturation with the colour..
Cheers PK
1st coat of Age Tinted gloss applied. Not sure how meny is needed. I figure go to three and see. then go to four if it need more. maybe five if it comes alive.......
:D PK
Pictures please!! :)
cheers,
Gav
1st layer of clear coat. on top of 5 layers of Butterscotch and 1 layer of gold highlights
http://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-con...r-coat-002.JPG
The other side
http://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-con...r-coat-001.JPG
that strange little block of wood in the pickup cavity.
http://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-con...mockup-007.JPG
Wow Paul,
that butterscotch on the ash body looks superb. Such a beautiful creamy shade! Nice work.
cheers,
Gav.