January 2017 GOTM!

[Andyxlh]

I have enjoyed your diary for this one. I'm not familiar with mtn Australia, where does that come from?. I have shied away from acrylic finishes as I was worried about their hardness. I have painted a couple of cars with acrylic and found the finish to be easily damaged. That's why I have been using polyurethane. But I might be out of date with my info. Poly takes forever to cure and is more difficult to buff, but seems hard wearing.

[Dan]

sweet SG build Dan, don't be so hard on yourself, love the colour and logo's. Was it hard to add 2 wires to the PBG pickups to be able to split them/out of phase ?

It was a bit fiddly at times, but probably the worst bit was trying to get the covers off - I couldn't get enough heat in to desolder them so I ended up cutting through the solder with a stanley knife after I found a video that showed it somewhere.

[Chuck]

I have enjoyed your diary for this one. I'm not familiar with mtn Australia, where does that come from?. I have shied away from acrylic finishes as I was worried about their hardness. I have painted a couple of cars with acrylic and found the finish to be easily damaged. That's why I have been using polyurethane. But I might be out of date with my info. Poly takes forever to cure and is more difficult to buff, but seems hard wearing.

Hey Andy,
You can get the paint from https://www.mtnaustralia.com.au/collections/94 - there's great range of colours. It probably doesn't give the toughest coat but I'm also probably a little impatient with the curing process! In the end I'm certainly happy with the results though.

[Andyxlh]

Hey Andy,
You can get the paint from https://www.mtnaustralia.com.au/collections/94 - there's great range of colours. It probably doesn't give the toughest coat but I'm also probably a little impatient with the curing process! In the end I'm certainly happy with the results though.

Hey I'd be happy with that much shine as well 😀 I think I might try this on my next one...

[depictedminds]

Not that there's much point having seen the other entries, but I'll throw it in anyway.


Ok here it is, my Gibbon SG. It's by no means perfect but was mostly enjoyable to build and plays decently enough.

Pretty much everything is stock except for the truss rod cover and some tweaks to the electronics. The pickups are the kit pickups modified for 4 wires. The bridge volume splits the coils and the neck volume puts the neck pickup out of phase.

I used landscapes wool dyes for colour, added some linseed oil then made up some wipe on poly to finish. The varnish I had was a satin finish so it's not super glossy. The neck has been sanded back a touch to give a fast finish.

The decals were laser printed onto some decal paper using a design I came up with blatantly ripped off from a well known logo.

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[FredA]

Hey guys,

And here's my entry for this month. Almost on the last day of the month!

This is my ST-1JR StarWars / R2D2 guitar.

Almost everything is stock, except for:
* pickups, these are the sample pickups Adam brought back from China which he very nicely offered me to try. I'll try and do a sound demo after NYE, but they actually sound pretty good now that the guitar is almost fully set up
* steel R2D2 inserts that I cut from a steel popcorn bucket
* flashing LEDs and controllers that I took from a 'foam flashing saber'

Build diary is here: Build diary
Video of the 'flashing lights': https://vimeo.com/197363785

So not your typical beautiful guitar, but the new owner is pretty happy with it!

Here are the photos:

[FredA]

And finally photos of the headstock:


Unfortunately it is not a nice sunny day here (though very hot), so the pics are not very nice... but I had to take them today to make the cut for this month! :-)

Thanks!

[stan]

Damn Fred, that is an awesome build, shame you entered this month haha, great job it looks amazing

[SJDavis75]

This is my second Pitbull build. A mockingbird style guitar in metallic deep purple with airbrushed flames.

[Brendan]

Entries have closed - I'll let you know who the winner is soon, once the judges have had their say!