Looking great Euroa, I like the shape change, the scratch plate shape is unique. ;-D
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Looking great Euroa, I like the shape change, the scratch plate shape is unique. ;-D
Thanks Wayne, the idea from the start was to not do a strat copy, but too see what else could be done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wayne.Mumford
Although I think the tremolo and the jack plate is probably a big give away lol :)
The Fender-style tremolo is a fairly common fitting on a lot of guitars these days, but it's probably the three single coils with the sloping bridge pickup that says 'Strat' to me more than anything.
Hi there,
A random question..Perhaps off topic...If I choose not to give the diy kit a color, would, lacker or any other kind finish suffice?
thanks!
Hey Merijn,
You can use lacquer, some folks have used Carnuba or Beeswax others have slapped on Polyurethane or similar. its all about what you want to use. Any form of timber finish, that will handle bumps, knock, pick scratching and sweaty hands will work.
A lot of the guys use Tru Oil to finish with, others prefer less chemical finishes. Really is up to you.
Hi MerijinQuote:
Originally Posted by Merijn
The guitar pictured on this build is painted on the sides and back with an automotive acrylic the front left unpainted, then the whole thing is coated in a mirotone lacquer... so really up to you, my last build I used tru-oil on the body neck and fretboard and that turned out fine
Me too actually, thats why I thought one bridge humbucker was the way to go :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Simon Barden
D'oh! My bad. I had seen the single humbucker scratchplate pic before - but I normally only catch the initial post pic when catching up on builds, and there are so many that it's hard to remember all their details.Quote:
Originally Posted by euroa guitars
Not surprising, this build did start 2 1/2 yrs ago! lol:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Simon Barden
This thread makes me feel so much better about my soon to be 12 month old EXA build. Did you have the pyrography done or was it all you with a fine soldering iron Euroa?Quote:
Originally Posted by euroa guitars
I'm not that good! The pyrograpghy was done by a local artist she goes by the name of Gee-Gal on facebook she also did the pyrography on my scratch built tele. Check out her facebook page she is carving a redback into a pitbull tele kit for her partner, it is amazing. Below is the snake tele she did the artwork for.Quote:
Originally Posted by FrankenWashie
Stunning work. Will have to flip over to Facebook and view some of her other work.
Wasastrat started 2 1/2 years ago as my first kit build an ST-1. Had big plans for this kit, but then got busy with custom jobs and repairs and it was put on the backburner.
It is a vastly different guitar to what I envisaged but more than happy with the end result.
Now for the mods:
Fretboard was de-fretted, sanded to a 16 inch radius Inlayed with Paua Shell dots and refretted with medium jumbo frets
Back of body sprayed in Purple Mica, custom pyrography by local artist on front and sprayed with precat lacquer
Grover style black and white tuners. Bone nut
Custom cut pickguard with bridge humbucker Hot PAF style 11.2k push pull vol pot for series and parallel, vintage style trem.
Well, what a change from the original Strat kit! Looking superb. You've done a lot of great work to it.
How are you getting on with the 16" radius neck? I've got a 12"-18" compound Warmoth neck on a Tele and I find it too flat for me.
Hi Simon, thanks it is a big change from the original kit. I wouldn't have refretted it originally but it was stored in my not so water tight garage for some time and the frets were in bad shape, also the side chamfer was a bit extreme from the factory so it really needed a refret. Because of that I decided to go a bit extreme with the changes, its a bit of a beast with just the bridge pickup it screams (in a good way) so just have to find a rock chick to sell it to lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by Simon Barden
As far as the radius is concerned most of my scratch builds either have a full 12 inch radius or a 12 to 16 inch compound radius. It feels okay and I think for the type of guitar it is works well. Its definitely no longer a strat!
I think I meant 12" to 16" as well!
10" on my Gibsons is fine for me, even the 12" on my Ibanez RG is fine, but 12" on a Tele just seems wrong to me. Maybe it's a combination of fairly flat plus something about the neck profile that puts me off the Warmoth neck. Maybe for me it works better with the flatter Ibanez style neck profile. But that's just me.
Yeah its funny I did a custom explorer for a client and it had a 12 to 16 compound radius with a base ball style neck,he loves it, horses for courses I suppose. Me doesn't make much difference I still play badly:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Simon Barden
Really nice Eurora, love what you have done to the ST-1 kit
Thanks Andrew...It took long enough:DQuote:
Originally Posted by andrewdosborne
It's not my personal 'cup of tea', however, those guitars look like a work of art and you can see how much time and effort has gone into them. Well done for being original and thinking outside the box. They are like tattoos! I have no doubt that they play really well like custom guitars should.
Chris
Thanks Chris, I personally like plain painted guitars, even over natural finish guitars. Given this guitar again i would have probably left it Strat shaped, but gota say it is unique and does sound pretty awesome the series and parallel wiring gives some nice tonal rangesQuote:
Originally Posted by christodav