First kit, AG-2 aiming to replicate SG custom Ebony Gloss

[BackinBlack]

Hi All

Meant to be Christmas holiday build but started already, as if it was going to wait till Christmas!
Going ok so far
Hand shaped the "blank" to match SG contours with an angle grinder running an 80 grit sanding disk, pretty exciting how fast the wood comes off! but worked pretty well.
Sanding down the black coat now, a few slightly high bits so another round of primer here and there and top coat again.
Anyone got any ideas on how to do the white strip round the fretboard,

[URL="https://www.gibson.com/Guitar/CUSCPA862/SG-Custom-2-Pickup-w-Ebony-Fingerboard-Gloss/Ebony"]

I don't have a a real SG! maybe I should look at one in a shop, I'm guessing it is a white plastic? (or something more exotic) molding, does anyone know?

cheers

[Simon Barden]

Hi and welcome.

There is no white stripe around the edge, that's just a reflection from the light.

[king casey]

Hi and welcome.

There is no white stripe around the edge, that's just a reflection from the light.

I think he's referring to the bound fretboard.
Probably out of the realm of the hobby builder.
Unless there's some clever clogs around here that's done it Frankie???

cheers, Mark.

[Simon Barden]

D'oh! Silly me.

Yes, I'd ignore adding binding if you want proper binding. If you wanted the guitar kit with it, you could probably have got a custom-ordered kit with a bound neck. But adding it now is very hard work.

You'd need to remove the frets and rout all around the edges and stick on the binding and then re-fret the neck. There are two types of binding used, single ply along the edge of the board itself and then 5-ply around the headstock. If you are able to do that, then you are probably at the skill level where you could make the whole guitar.

You'd also have to change the trapezoid inlays for rectangular ones, and add an inlay on the 1st fret.

The kits are far from an accurate copy of an SG (e.g. there is no gap between the neck pickup and the neck itself). You've also got a batwing pickguard with the kit, so to look more like that Custom, you'd need to add some pickup rings and a smaller pickguard. So, I'd concentrate on just making a nice black SG-style guitar.