Wokkas LP-1M mahogany body in gold stain

I received the 'Sunday special' LP-1M with mahogany body/neck Thursday and wasted no time starting the build. Our of the box the kit looks great, nice flame maple cap and all fit together well, neck fit is quite tight.
Gave the cap a light sand and stained it black to pop the grain.
This is what the cap looks like after 2 coats of gold stain
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picked up a heap of veneers from the woodshow on Friday. Glued some black sassafras veneer on the headstock and had the grain going across trying to replicate the flames
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did final shaping of the headstock and 3rd coat of gold stain on body/headstock. Stained the neck and back/sides of the body jarrah. Got to clean up the binding next
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That's incredible mate. Where else can you find veneers? Online at all?

cheers Andrew,
this is the supplier at the woodshow, scroll down to see what timbers they supply. They are based in Tasmania
http://www.huonpinefurniture.com.au/specialty.html
Think there's been other links where to get veneers in the forum but I can't remember. Pretty sure there's a supplier in Qld or the east coast

Wokka that gold looks amazing, with a real deep clear that will look like some of the finishes you see on PRS and Carvin customs

cheers Tony, planning a few more colour coats to really get that gold intense. Planning using Dingotone clear for this one

Whoar! Scored big time with that cap Woks! Looks incredible!

Can't wait to see this build finished and ready to shred. :D

cheers Brodie, yes opening a new kit is like Xmas day as a kid, you are very excited to see whats inside the box. There's a small amount of glue on the cap but it blends in ok

Looking great Wokka! You've done a splendid job popping that excellent flame. The gold just keeps getting deeper! Will look awesome with clear coats.

cheers Gav.

cheers Gav thats the plan

Got 4th coat of gold on the cap and headstock. Slowly getting more intense.
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got about 7 or 8th clear coat on almost ready to glue the neck and got some tonerider generators for this beast and black hardware.
I can now reveal this stain is Dingotone Coolangatta Gold now on sale in the shop !
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cant wait to see this built up, that stain looks insanely good

That's so good. Looks like a hdr photo with the contrast smashed. Obviouskey it isn't, but the depth and definition in the cap is perfect.

Hands down the best finish I've seen from you, Wokka. You will have pro players drooling over a finish like that. It's totally unique. Nice work mate.

wow Wokka, that is superb

Easy . . . TIGER (I am referring to the intense finish)

Looking amazing Wokka. Are those the Dingotone clear coats on there?

cheers,
Gav.

cheers for the comments everyone.
@ Gav, I put 2 coats of Dingotone clear and gave up having to wait 4 or 5 days between coats and its had about 5 coats of naughty room oil

got a bit more done on the LP, I call it the tiger now. Neck fret levelled, it was already pretty level so that was easy. Neck glued, switch wires soldered and tonerider generator pups fitted. Hopefully will finish the wiring today. Got 2 push pull pots to coil split so thats going to be fun to wire up but good experience
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These come out with mahogany necks now??? Lookin' sweet btw:-)

some back photos
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hey Barge, yes the LP-1M are mahogany body and neck. They are the 2nd best LP kit available I think. The spalty model takes the gold medal

Man I swear they never used to be, the very first build I did was a LP-1M and I'm sure that had a maple neck.

yer ok Barge they must have changed to mahogany at some stage. Would have been obvious the maple is a much lighter colour

Yeah that's awesome, too bad they weren't around when I was doing the Blacktop. It's the only reason I used a spalt kit is because they had a hog neck.

Love the cap & the headstock, really looks tigerish now me boy.
BTW I do like the little guitar doorknob on that shortass door 8-)

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Hey Maxy, that's where he keeps all his little guitar building worker elves , how else do you think he builds 50 guitars at one time :D

haha nice one Barge, sometimes think I could use 50 elves to help out.
That little door is the wood storage area below the pizza oven.
Got the wiring done but got no sound from the bridge pup so there must be a short somewhere. Strung it up and played through the neck pup and the tonerider generators sound good. The coil split worked well.
So all is left is diagnose the bridge pup wiring, covers on and should be ready to enter GOTM
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couple more pics. I'll get some better daylight pics next weekend once its finalised.
Also hoping to clock up 3000 posts by end of the week
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got finishing touches done and made a truss rod cover out of camphor, pretty happy how its looking
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few more pics
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Mate I'd be happy too. That's stunning, one of the best flame jobs I've seen.

sweet

very nice Wokka

cheers fellas

Beautiful guitar. The flame-top is out of this world. Are the black control panel covers custom-made? I was looking for a set of black ones to match mahogany stain body on my LP-1M

Hey Andrew, cheers mate. I got the LP-1 black hardware upgrade, its only $42.95 as black hardware went well with the flames. It includes the pickups & surrounds, tuners, control knobs, bridge, tailpiece, covers, jack plate and switch all in black
http://www.pitbullguitars.com/shop/h...upgrade-black/