Anyone familiar with Carson Electric Guitars?

[wazkelly]

Easiest way to do decals is with transfer decal paper than can be bought for a few sheets pretty cheap on eBay here in Oz.

Used the stuff on my 4 builds with an ink jet printer and created the logos in MS Paint from memory. Not a huge selection of fonts but good enough and was way too paranoid about importing viruses by downloading fonts from the net.

If I was to do them again I would set them out so that the section to be cut would fit the size of the headstock and then no edge lines are visible. If you want a black headstock face just do the logo or lettering reversed out in a solid black background. Saves heaps of mucking around masking up and painting. In fact one idea I have in mind is to take a photograph of something and reverse that out so that it almost has a 3D look, or maybe have that 'something' placed on a black background. Same can be done if you want to achieve a clear headstock by placing the object on a white background however if there is not enough White colour balance it may add a slight opaque hue.

[Zandit75]

Got some more progress shots for you all.


I shaped the edges slightly so I could have a bare timber edge around the headstock, and the way I masked it seemed to work well enough. I've since applied the start of a new logo, but I think I've stuffed it. More to come on that later!


At this stage, the back of the neck has had two coats of DT clear neck stain, it has since had it's first coat of clear DT top coat.
I've filled the old holes with toothpics and timber glue. Most of the sections should be covered by the new tuning machines.


Part way through the wiring up of the switches and pups. Pretty fiddly work with the 3-way switch, so I made sure to get that out of the way first!


Hopefully will be able to get a sound out of it tonight if all goes to plan!

[gavinturner]

Looking really amazing man! Really clean crisp lines.

cheers,
Gav.

[Zandit75]

Looking really amazing man! Really clean crisp lines.

cheers,
Gav.

Thanks Gav, most appreciated!

[wazkelly]

I like the headstock with it's pointy beak and the chamfered edge binding look.

In the home straight now.

[Zandit75]

I like the headstock with it's pointy beak and the chamfered edge binding look.

In the home straight now.

Almost!
I completed the wiring tonight, but I have a couple of gremlins. The Neck and Bridge pups seem to work fine when selected singly, but the Hot stack is proving troublesome.
I'll ask some questions in the wiring thread so Weirdy can have a gander at it.

[wazkelly]

OK, probably need to re-trace your steps on splitting the middle hot stack to make sure the right wires and going to the correct places.

[Zandit75]

Everything is checked 3 times over, but I'll have to have another check tomorrow night. My brain is fried at the moment. I'm probably missing something simple.

[wazkelly]

Have a look at the instructions that came on the packaging for that PUP as it clearly identifies which wires are what.

Unfortunately my Son was around last weekend and took his couple of guitars to his new place otherwise I could have had a look and taken a photo for you.

The mini switch was pre-wired with PUP wires snipped off and this link to dimarzio site might help.... http://www.dimarzio.com/sites/defaul...4Conductor.pdf

From memory it should have been done like the description for 'Dual Sound with Single Coil Switching' which is the 1st diagram on LHS of linked document.

[Simon Barden]

It could be the on/on/on switch. They come in two varieties for middle position pole connections (though the two outer positions should be exactly the same, so up and down should both work).