April GOTM

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Originally Posted by dave.king1

Nice work HP, but bloody hell Nitro I think anyone else thinking of entering this month just curled up into a jibbering ball in the corner

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Aah thanks dave, but remember the standard is always high every month and i just feel privileged to be able to enter, and the month is not finished yet.

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Originally Posted by Hodgepodge

It has been a blast to complete this kit. One of the most enjoyable projects I have taken on.

I cut a chunk off the bottom near the neck to give better fret access. I painted it with a thinned cerulean blue artist oil paint to let the grain show through a bit, carefully drew the stripes with a black marker, added a coat of linseed oil that greened the grain highlights a bit, then put a few coats of clear poly. After a light sanding it has a smooth matte finish. I got a blank sheet of adhesive pickguard material and cut it to shape. After a trial and error of the wiring, (my first wiring experience), it sounds beastly.

- One happy customer.

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Wow cool looking guitar hodgepodge, love the detail and colour scheme. bet your stoked.

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Originally Posted by stan

Wow Nitro , most modded SG ive seen, nice

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Cheers stan, wasnt an easy trip this time, lots of problems, but the forum helped so a lot of credit goes to them.

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Originally Posted by nitroburner1000

Wow cool looking guitar hodgepodge, love the detail and colour scheme. bet your stoked.

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Thanks man. I love it and can't put it down. I've had some problems with the grounding. The bridge they supplied is heavily powder coated and doesn't ground well. I'm still working that out. I'll have to scrape away some spots. But aside from that annoying hiccup it is wonderful. Your guitar is amazing. I've never seen gold plated stings before. Pretty cool.

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Originally Posted by Hodgepodge

Thanks man. I love it and can't put it down. I've had some problems with the grounding. The bridge they supplied is heavily powder coated and doesn't ground well. I'm still working that out. I'll have to scrape away some spots. But aside from that annoying hiccup it is wonderful. Your guitar is amazing. I've never seen gold plated stings before. Pretty cool.

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could you get to the underneath of the bridge and drill a very tiny hole, and solder a ground wire in there? And thanks for the compliment. Neither had i but found the strings on ebay.

Great job there Hodgepodge.

Hodgepodge i dig that colour mate

Figured I might as well add my latest to the mix! The build is based around a stock ST-1M kit and inspired by my favourite surfboard. Painting was done with MTN rattle cans, and the keyline is automotive pinstripe tape. There was my usual body reshaping, and instead of the normal pickups I ordered a neck and bridge Entwisle AS57. The wiring features a Freeway Ultra switch which provides the following: Positions 1, 2 and 3 are neck, both, bridge, Positions 4, 5 and 6 are series in-phase, series out-of-phase and parallel out-of-phase. The little toggle switch is a simple bright switch. The master vol works in all switch positions as does master tone. Bridge volume works in position 3, or adjusts the mix of the bridge pickup in pos 2, 4, 5 and 6. I also built a fuzz face clone pedal to go with it.

It's been a very interesting exercise in trying things I haven't done before so pretty satisfied with how it all turned out! Apologies I haven't updated the pics from the build diary but have had some camera/phone issues (and, yes Wok, I have taken the stickers off the back of the tuners!)

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Nice one Chuck!!
I still think you should have covered the trem cover with surfboard grip tape!!

sweet build Chuck, love the theme, you nailed what you set out to do. Going to be tough to beat this build