During soldering, the heat of the pots was a definite worry so i did give things time to cool between attempts and attaching other wires. There was certainly a bit of difficulty getting the solder to...
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During soldering, the heat of the pots was a definite worry so i did give things time to cool between attempts and attaching other wires. There was certainly a bit of difficulty getting the solder to...
Just a short sample of the sound it makes... still waiting for the post man to bring the copper shielding tape
Please excuse the mediocre playing skills and the horrible video quality :)
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Thank you for the praise lads!
Tonight I popped on the bone nut and truss cover, gave the nut a good soaking in the black dye used for the body. And boy aren't those stock nuts dodgy! It snapped on...
Thanks man!
Stealthy indeed!
Not sure about a logo for the headstock; i like the bare look of it and not the most artistically creative, maybe ill look into a logo if i continue to make more :) ...
The finish is the hard and long part, unless your going to war with your frets... thats the one im avoiding at the moment!
The rest can be done in a day just about!
Get the pickguard and elecs...
Looking good indeed! Well done!
Just about to get onto finishing the fretboard on my build.
Have been tossing up between beeswax, lemon oil, linseed oil or truoil for the finish.
But settled on...
So i popped on another 2 or 3 coats of truoil on the body and was pleased with the way it was looking.
Realizing and accepting not every small imperfection wasn't going to come out, i pushed on!...
Thanks man!
Im certainly becoming pleased with the way its turning out, there were a few points where i thought that id completely screwed it... But yeah, no veneer would have been a bit easier...
With a pretty decent break over most of the summer... Im finally back at it!
Ive started on oiling the guitar, leaving the fretboard bare and to be conditioned later.
Just popped on the 3rd coat...
I found ebony timbermate easy to work with, dont do what i did and just slap it on nice and thick! Haha, spent a long time sanding...
I found the neck pocket was such a tight fit there was no...
Looks like a good kit!
Currently doing my first build with an ag-1f.
I used ebony timbermate on my kit mixed with feast watson japan black (spirit based and not sure if it mixed well) on all except...
The mahogany + sanded black stain came out much darker on the front than expected, however i like how it turned out.
So the original plan to try a black burst around the outside isn't going ahead!...
Sanded down the timbermate and the stained veneer
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Got onto staining
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Sanded down the body and neck, and have been working on the veneer. The top half is coming up great, although i think the bottom half is an utter dud! Even prior to sanding i could see the...
Looks really cool dude! well done. I really like the black and red cloudiness.
Im on an SG kit myself at the moment, hopefully will get a great outcome like you have.
With the last post, i really did want to avoid a lot of work with the neck, but hey! its a part of it all :)
Jumped into making the tools ill need, made a notched straight edge with a long stainless...
Well after a bit of a time set back due to some illness... Ive had a chance to get some things cracking!
Carved the headstock by hand, eyeing off a standard Gibson mustache curl like shape.
Got...
Completely understood!
Thanks for clarifying that one, seems like the measurement in my original picture measuring over the bridge is getting there. Will tripple, quadruple check those measurements...
So the nut to top of 12th seems to be 312mm, 2mm short of the perfect half 628mm; 314mm.
So i assume i should plan for 624mm as my scale length, given half is 312. Instead of just following the...
Proceeding on, hopefully the neck doesn't end up failing when i get to the end point... hahaha *stress!*
Been sussing the scale length, wasn't too sure as the product description for AG-1F or...
Grabbed the neck, tapped the heel lightly on the floor and the rod slid down with each tap. Grabbed an allen key and tightened it up only a little. Seems like the thread down the bottom caught on,...
Thanks for the replies guys, helps to know that the truss rod isn't just weirding me out.
Shot a query out to Adam so should see what the situation is soon.
First kit build - AG-1F
Hi all!
Got my first kit today, the AG-1F from pitbull guitars.
Excited to get cracking and have been looking at quite a lot of different forums, youtube videos and the like to get a grasp on...