Thanks Waz! Thanks Gav!
cheers,
Gav (#2)
Thanks Waz! Thanks Gav!
cheers,
Gav (#2)
That's really cool
Unreal Gav, pro job
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Fantastic Gav, truly stunning guitar.
Hey guys,
Here’s my entry: the ‘Red Plywood Strat’
This was a full renovation of a very distressed old strat body and neck that a friend left me.
Photos:
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Build diary:
http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...ead.php?t=6189
The body was sanded back to wood, adapted to replace the bridge single coil by a humbucker, dyed red with colortone, and finished with gloss wipe on poly.
The neck is natural, also finished with gloss wipe on poly.
Plastic fret markers were replaced with paua
Electronics:
* Entwistle pickups (from PBG): 2 x XS62N for neck and middle, and 1x Nemesis AFG Bridge humbucker
* CTS pots with orange drop capacitor
* Schaller MegaSwitch E to allow combining individual coils from the bridge humbucker with the neck or middle single coil pick up. This offers 4x humbucking positions out of 5x instead of the standard 3x. More explanation here:
http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...l=1#post114520
Cheers!
Dr N hot rod strat is awesome
Gav the burl 335 is lovely
Fred , I remember the build for this - great job
Great job on that plywood strat. It's got to be the cheapest, nastiest timber you can use (I imagine chipboard just doesn't hang together), but what you've done with it makes it look top notch. Love your work.
Fantastic work as usual fred, should go well with your blue strat:cool:
@G-Axe: It's actually good quality plywood, not the cheap type you get from home renovation shops.
I read that a lot of strat copies used ply instead of solid wood before... anyway, this thing's got amazing sustain and very nice tone with the Entwistle pickups, but it is a lot heavier than my ash body STA1!
@ FredA That Strat is looking great, I like how the plywood shows through the finish along the edges of the body, it's a great effect, how does she sound and play?
Hey Doc, agree with the ply showing. I was going to paint it a solid colour, but I cleaned it up with a wet rag after I sanded it and loved the ply straight away, so changed my mind to a stain!
It sounds very good. I like the special combinations that the 'MegaSwitch' offers! It really gives a good range of tones and the Entwistle pickups sound very good, especially considering that they're pretty cheap!
Play-ability could be better. The neck is quite narrow and I think it's a bit tilted toward the low E side, so the low E string is very close to the edge... I'm used to it now, but I've been thinking about moving the bridge and pickguard a bit to the right (when looking at the guitar from the front) to make up for that.
It's on my list of to-do projects for January... but I've also got to finish the R2D2 strat who's been curing for a few weeks now, and I can also hear the SG with 3 pickups calling my name from its box at night... I think it wants to be worked on too! :-)
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Originally Posted by FredA
You can fix that neck tilt to some extent by losening-off the neck-bolts and pushing the neck sideways towards the high E-String side a bit, then just tighten the neck-bolts back up again, if the neck wants to shift back towards the low E-String side, you can put a thin shim in the neck-pocket to prevent that from happening.
Didn't think of that! Thanks for the idea Doc.
I'll see if I can find some sort of shim.
I'll have to see if it doesn't leave a gap too visible too as the neck currently sits nicely along the pocket side with no gap...
Humm... Let's experiment! 😎
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Originally Posted by FredA
No worries mate, the other way you could fix it is to make a shim for the neck by gluing two pieces of sandpaper of the same grit back-to-back, and then cut it to fit the bottom of the neck pocket, then re-install the neck back in the neck pocket, the downside is that you'll most likely have to re-set the string-action of the guitar, but what should happen is that the friction generated by the sandpaper should stop the neck from shifting sideways in the neck-pocket once it has been properly aligned.
The neck pocket on the STA was slightly loose so I used a few off cuts of copper shielding tape on the sides to tighten it up
I can relate Fred. The Cliché LP experimentation continues, FrankenWashie needs a resolution to the hole in the face, the SV-1 needs it's next coat of paint and then there's the TLA-TH1 that needs me to decide what's to happen with it. In the background we are playing around with scratch built neck blanks and redrawing a proposed neck through baritone. My projects list is booked until at least June. Then there's the important stuff (What the better half wants me to do!!).Quote:
Originally Posted by FredA
Hey Adam
When are submissions closing for this 'contest'?
I'm about to gut my shed, as in get rid of the clutter.
After that, if I can get a few days run on my first build, it COULD be done by Christmas.
What about having a couple of different categories?Quote:
Originally Posted by adam
Suggestions for categories:
- Complete non-PB kit builds
- Complete scratch builds
- restoration/refurb
- refinish
Hey Muzza the very 1st post of this thread Ads says closes 31st December so I presume as long as its posted on this thread before new years hits Perth you should be eligible so you get a bonus 2 hours of time !
I agree with your categories for next year's competition. When you enter just name the closest category to what the entry is. It's not really fair to compare a kit with a scratch build or a re-furb or re-finished axe
Hey Muzza, thanks for the prompt. Now I've thought about it, it's guitar/bass of the Year so we should give it to the 31st of December.Quote:
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We can then open the polling for all of January and then announce the winner in February, as we did with GOTY in 2014.
Hope that doesn't upset anyone.
So, go for it Muzza.
No categories please.. the judges already have a hard enough time. I am sure they will judge on the level of complexity vs final result to pick a deserved winner... I say that with confidence as our good friend Brendan will probably be in charge and nothing gets by him. (sorry BP, but you have set the benchmark)
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I for one am totally cool with that.
No worries Ads - come on lads / lasses - 15 days to get your entries in!Quote:
Originally Posted by adam
Mine's hit a rather large speed hump. The top needs stripping back to bare wood and starting again.
So now I reckon I've now got 380 days up my sleeve...
Nah, go for gold and do it in the remainder 14 days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Muzza
I know you can do it and we will all be here cheering you on to the finish line.
So how are things going with respect to voting results?, I'm pretty interested in who won and who is the runner-up.
Voting doesn't start until after the end of the year.
It will start during January.
Yhep - Zandit's on the money - we made the call as it was GOTY - we needed to keep it open to the end of the year.
So I've got til midnight on NYE, WA time?
Later than that, as it really needs to be midnight on New Years Eve in the -12 hour UTC zone.
Only 3 days to go now. It ain't gonna happen...Quote:
Originally Posted by wazkelly
There is always next year which will be here before we know it.
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Originally Posted by wazkelly
Yep, it's only another four days to go till it's 2017, by my reckoning, and that's including 01/01/2017.
Doc, he means the END of next year...
Pay attention!
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Doh!!!......*cue epic facepalm moment*.....serves myself right for not reading the post correctly.
Last minute entry!!
Here's the Carson-Stein.
Started out as a sticker bombed wreck that looked like it had been used as a cricket bat.
http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/u...pshxm9cdm2.jpg
It was missing a nut, strings and a fair bit of paint was missing in places. The electrics were corroded and in more than one place not even connected.
Eventually, it turned out like this!
http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/u...psdzksmm5u.jpg
http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/u...psjbwekbcl.jpg
http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/u...psdbjiprty.jpg
Details:
Pickups - Secondhand units supplied by Wazkelly.
Standard Single(5.7) in the bridge, taken from a Magnum.
WSC Single Hotstack(9.7) in the middle.
And lastly, a Standard Humbucker(11.5) taken from an EX-1 Build.
Pots - 500k's for both Volume & Tone.
Switches - 3-way(On-On-On) Mini Toggle Switch for Hot Stack - Parallel/Split/Series
Standard 5-way selector switch.
Knobs - Solid Aluminium with Rubber rings for grip.
Strings - Dunlop 10-46's
Tuning Machines - Secondhand units supplied by WazKelly.
Finish -
Body - Dulux Duramax Granite Effects(Rattle Can) - 3-4 coats
Semi-gloss clear coats on top - 4-5 coats.
Headstock - Dulux Duarmax Black Semi-gloss.
Neck - Dingotone Clear Neck Finish - 2 coats of stain, 2 coats of top coat.
Gees talk about last minute. Looks great. Stone effects.
Thanks JB, only strung it up 20mins before taking these photos, so they are still settling in.Quote:
Originally Posted by JB RETRO
I'll try and get a video done of it tonight.
That guitar looks cool Zandit, I like the effect you got with the Granite finish.
Nice restoration Zandit!
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