May 2015 Guitar of the Month

Enter your finished guitar here to be judged for Pit Bull Guitars May 2015 Guitar of the Month.

Remember:

One guitar per member per month (if we have more than 6 entries)
It must be a Pit Bull Guitars kit (mods and upgrades acceptable)

We need 4 photos:

• full guitar shot from the front;
• close up of the body finish;
• shot of the back of the guitar; and
• close up of the headstock (please, no brand name logos)

Post your photos in this thread.

Please note: From the outset, this competition has always been exclusively for amateur and hobby guitar kit builders. If you are making and successfully selling finished guitars (from scratch or from kits), for a profit, then please do not enter this competition. Making guitars for friends or selling a finished guitar or two for charity does NOT disqualify you.

Competition for May closes 30 April 2015

Winner will be judged by the Pit Bull Guitars Judging Panel, including the winner of the April GOTM.

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My IB-7 build in what I'm calling "Xenoplasm burst"
Very proud of this one. I used to own a 7 string but I had to sell it a few years ago when I needed the money. Very happy to have all seven strings back again. No matter which production 7 strings I look at none of them excited me, thanks to pit bull guitars I have been able to create what I could always see in my head.
Cheers

Gerry, Love the colour, very nicely done burst. Very cool looking guitar.

Wow! Beautiful shredder Gerry. That's one amazing burst you've created!

cheers,
Gav.

Very nice Gerry! That is a very fine looking axe!

very nicely done Gerry you nailed the burst and the colours look really cool. Was it done with an air gun or spray cans ? I'll probably be entering a green and black axe as well, popular colour combo !

Nice job Gerry and great start to this months competition! Awesome burst very well done.

Wow Gerry. That is an amazing finish.

I did it all with rattle cans, lime green followed by jungle green and then gloss black with a gloss clear. I wanted to play around with an abnormal colour scheme and I think it came out just the way I wanted.
Cheers

you did well Gerry to get those results from rattle cans. Almost matched the lime green pickup rings too !

slime burst ib7 sweet :D

I actually painted the pick up surrounds with the lime green and clear.

I actually painted the surrounds in the lime green

ah nice trick there Gerry, never thought of doing that, can't get a better colour match than that method !
Another tip Gerry you can edit a post instead of re-typing/re-posting it and adding/editing the text

great work Gerry, looks radioactive!

accidentally posted this in the april thread! anyways, here it is again,. my Ex 1. I used a deep mahogany satin stain, I must have stained and sanded this thing a trillion time. I put a seymour duncan full shred pickup in bridge and an old ibanez infinity 2 in the neck. Im in love with how it all turned out. I learned so much from this. You guys are the best.

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well done Nick the EX turned out very nice. I would have guessed is the stain Feast Watson Mahogany ? great colour.
Can't believe its the 2nd entry of the month with a week to go !

Looks great Nick, it's turned out really well. You may want to also post a photo of the back of the guitar, just to make sure you meet the GOTM requirements.

5 posts off the 1000 Weirdy !

Wow, great colour! Very classy looking EX.

That guitar looks like it belongs on a space ship. not a clean white ship but a dark and dangerous alien ship. Awsome looking!

wow Nick, love the EX, nice work.
If that avatar is a pic of you, then it's perfect for you, you'll rock out on that one!

An amazing looking EX Nick! I really love these guitars in a more natural finish. Yours is a stunner! I would love to hear how she sounds..

cheers,
Gav.

A gentleman's EX ;) Looks great mate

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Originally Posted by Nickosaurus

A gentleman's EX ;) Looks great mate

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haha yeah, a gentlemans Ex indeed! And I too always LOVED natural wood finish guitars, they almost look like really nice pieces of furniture lol. I could never find one with the exact sort of finish I wanted, and since I always wanted to build a guitar, i thought, NOWS THE TIME!!

And yeah, unfortunately that crazy looking dude in my avatar is me, lol. Im a caveman.

Love you guys

here's a quick crappy video I uploaded showing me pluggin it in for the first time and actually having it all work!

https://vimeo.com/125833893

very cool Nick, sounds great

Good work Nick, love the finish & nice and meaty sounding

sounds good Nick looks like you were playing a drop D tuning (or possibly lower) ?
Better keep the language family friendly buddy as some builders have sons and daughters helping the builds and reading the forums.

Oh man, im such an idiot, sorry , youre right !! I went and edited my posts to tone things down. I just forget where I am sometimes

no drama Nick, just letting you know before the moderators tell you ! It's easy to forget when your pumped and that happy with your first build !

Great job Nick.

I realize I was supposed to attach a picture of the back. It was stained and sanded quite a few times and then tossed a layer of polyurethane on. It really made the Ash wood look amazing
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oh it's ash so an EXA-1 kit, I was thinking it was basswood but now I can see some ash grain under the darkish stain. I've built one of these in a black stain and got an unopened EXA-1 kit. The neck on this model feels really slick.
Nick looks like you are missing a screw on the control cover plate !

lol, yeah, this was an older picture I had when I was still putting this thing together. I was constantly taking that plate off so I didnt want to have both screws in.

Nice Build love the color and sounds chunky as.

this is my entry for May GOTM, was a beta test for Dingotone Nullarbor Ochre and couldn't be more happier with the colour. Well done DB ! As the white pickguard goes well with the colour had to use a maple neck. Blackheart sassafras veneer on headstock.
This build is using stock parts. I posted a link of a quick video of this axe on the build diary. With no setup sounds fine

here's pics of the back and headstock

Glorious, sensational and all that

The body colour is very close to my Squier mahogany Thinline

Nice build Wokks.