My kit continued 2

Ok This time.Well, out came the sandpaper, after 4,003,221 tears later (still remember you Judy) I finally got it to what I think is ok, then put some of the neck base coat in there , well at least there is no great big ridges.
first pic the series of ridges.
2nd pic, not the worlds best sanding block.
pic 3 that will do.
Tomorrow, install pickups', hardware, and solder, ummm strings and set up.HEY THE END IN IN SIGHT.



Dam no pix i'll post them separately.
Here they are (hopefully)
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Hi Ricmo

Are you wanting to create each part of your build process as a new thread? It might be better to rather keep everything under your initial build thread to keep the thread nicely structured and for people to track / enjoy your build process? With numerous threads if you run into trouble it's harder to follow your process and to help.

I suspect that you are having issues with figuring out how to post pictures? At the lower right hand side of the screen in blue you will find a "Reply to:" in blue. Use this as opposed to the quick reply to post pictures.

Gav

so true Gavin, and I did that BUT I couldn't post the pix.

What browser are u using?

I see that Rick used the path on his computer files to attempt and post the pics, always use the "Reply" button on the bottom-right corner of the messages to post pics

If you press the "Quote" button it will give you three photo slots for loading pictures. I just delete the quote and go from there.

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Hey! How easy is that. Thanks guys and Adam as well.
Ok, today I fitted the hardware, pickups, and wired. as I was doing the setup, adjusting the neck, I was amazed to find a left hand thread, never came across on on a truss rod before, but hey it works. I have put the supplied strings (not pit bull), tuned it done some setting up, it still needs a slight adjustment but will play it in first then change the strings and do final work.
You may be looking, shaking your head saying, "what a strange pick up in the front" ok easy to explain. A long story about a guy in Canada making me a guitar (from scratch) he had a seymour duncan hb in the front and a seymour duncan p100 (or something in the back). I changed the p100 to a di mazio super distortion and the p100 is that funny looking thing in the front of this.
Another thing that may have caught your eye is that black button between the volume and tone controls. Well it's not working at present (and I dont know why just now) But when it WILL work is (should) be a stutter button. I've never seen a stutter button on a thinline tele, and I dont use them anyhow, but hey it took me 15 minutes. Oh hold on it's not going yet 000000HHH.
Thanks for all the tips and stuff, Hope to make a LP one day, just not sure when that will be.
Cheers.

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Well that didn't work.

Well that didn't work.

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/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from Ricmo on July 18, 2013, 15:03
Well that didn't work.

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That is a nice guitar..The colour looks awesome

Bundy

[quote]/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from Bundy64 on July 19, 2013, 07:47
HI Bundy 64, Thanks for liking my "creation", maybe I could have put more base coat, but still good.
Keloooe & FretWorn Yeah I have had so much trouble trying to post pix, but tink i got the hang of it now.

Ok! One thing I have discovered is the "Bigsby" arm is on too much angle, I will give this a slight bend which should bring it in to a distance that will allow me to grab the thing. Will do that when I change the strings and do the final adjustment.

Today I put the last of the vintage yellow neck base in to the "f" hole, so thats finished.
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AtLast! Finally got that stutter button to work, well First time I looked at it was today, checked the wiring but every thing was ok. The multi meter said it aint going but wont tell me why.
Ripped it out, took the hot feed from the 3 position switch in stead of the volume pot, and it worked, fantastic.
It's like I said, never seen a kill switch on a thine-line tele but it's there. It's a little bit of getting use to with the button between the vol and tone but I wont use it anyway.

cheers
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Ok! Finally got it done, there was difficulty in "finding" the stutter button in it's original position, so I turned the control plate 180deg, now the button is very accessible. Also had to swap the tone and volume knobs so the volume is always there and the switch is also reversed so it points to the hot pick up.
Now i'm ready for my next project, but first I need to do a bit of work on another guitar, just rewire it but dont know when my next guitar will be.
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Love the final result. This is one kit that I'm keen on making, and you've done a stellar job! Can't wait to see the next build.

Cheers,
Gavin.

Thanks Gavin, next time I'll take a little more time. The bigsby spring is too strong. I have two of them kicking around here somewhere so I'll either find one or maybe cut it down a little, sometime. The front pick up is interesting it is more power full that the humbucker. I am thinking of obtaining a stacked concentric pot (volume & tone in the one pot so I can cut the volume back on the front PU)) but unless I go to America I may have trouble finding them.