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Attachment 11164Greeting and Bon Jour Guitar building community.
I am Justin from Philadelphia, PA in the United States, I will post build from start to finish and today I will start with an unboxing video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieRZQziv0So
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Using a water based wood dye,water makes the wood grains pop up and some sanding and the wood is very thirsty
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2 toning the dye for that royal Anglo style headstock stripe
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Daydreaming of what she will look like as I piece it together
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Daydreaming as it progresses
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Getting the neck set, glued, strait and clamped
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off with the clamp and the neck and body are on there good and solid
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now for the 4 coat finish
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Not my favorite part, but getting the wiring done
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And everything works
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Hardware all put on and assembled
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Family name on the headstock
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Strung, tuned, and complete
and here is a video jamming and here is how it sounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kH925C3oiQ
Looking & sounding great! Are you happy with the outcome?
Thank you, I am very happy with the outcome, I'm ready to build another one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brendan
Yep. I'd be very happy with that! Good job
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Justonean, thanks for taking the time to put these up and the vids as well. I'm jealous of your man cave there! with lights!!!
I'm not a bass guy but man those RCA-4 kits are cool! Great build mate, can't wait to see some more.
Welcome Justin. Great job on the bass.
welcome to the forum Justin and well done on the build, sounds great, assume you built it with the stock hardware ?
Love your man cave is very colorful and you have a very funky playing style, looks like you have been playing bass for a while !
Thank you sir
Thank you sir, I've played bass when I was a kid, guitar players where a dime a dozen but bassist and drummers were always in demand. I have always wanted a Ric bass, but I know I could never afford one. I never wanted to run the risk of ordering one from China and having it confiscated by US Customs, I fished around the internet a very long time looking for a Ric style kit and as soon as I came across PBG, I grabbed it immediately. I used all of the stock hardware out of excitement, but I will eventually upgrade. hopefully using the stock hardware will encourage who share the same excitement.Attachment 11199 here's another pic of my mancave / recording studio, where all the magic happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
Cheers' mon ami!!
Thank you very much sir, we all should encourage people to put videos up, I've seen so many great jobs done on so many guitars and basses, I would really love to hear the product of all the hard work put into these guitars.Attachment 11200 here's a pic of the rest of my man cave /studio if you are looking for ideasQuote:
Originally Posted by Andy40
Top job on the RC4 and love the psychedelic looking man cave/rehearsal room/recording studio.