November Guitar of the Month

[stan]

awesome swirl effects

Craig, that Ricci is elegant and cool, great mods, awesome bass, well done

[AJ]

Thought I'd finally enter the TL-1 I build a while ago, since I finally got around to doing a decal for the headstock and refinished the home made pick guard. The details are in my TL-1 build of where I experimented in winding my own pups, and the 4 way switch mod along with roller string keepers.

[AJ]

and

[AJ]

last one.

[wokkaboy]

wow nice one AJ, this was unexpected, I barely remember this build. So is that basswood and not alder ? nice figure in the grain and love the personal touches. How do the home made pups sound ? The bridge plate looks non stock and string through. Nice work on the timber pickguard, what timber is that ?
Also the maple neck must be an option. Looks great mate !

[AJ]

/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from wokkaboy on October 30, 2014, 15:14
wow nice one AJ, this was unexpected, I barely remember this build. So is that basswood and not alder ? nice figure in the grain and love the personal touches. How do the home made pups sound ? The bridge plate looks non stock and string through. Nice work on the timber pickguard, what timber is that ?
Also the maple neck must be an option. Looks great mate !

thanks Wokka, it was a standard TL-1 kit, it had the maple neck and bass wood body. The bridge is a Wilkinson compensated with through body string. The pick guard was made from 2mm 5ply aircraft grade (have some left over from my rc days.) To me the pups sound great, but I still cant play for the life of me..tis one of those "gonna do things" for me to take it down to Bill at the music shop to get him to give it a try-out for the sound, it will happen lol.. eventually

[wokkaboy]

yeah ok nice one AJ, that grain is really nice for basswood. You must be very happy with the result. What was the stain colour/type and clear coat ?

[bargeloobs]

Damn AJ that thing's spec-f#@king-tacular! This build must have been around before I even started browsing this forum because it certainly doesn't ring a bell.
This has just become one epic GOTM....poor judges.

[wokkaboy]

I make it 9 entries, wow they came in thick and fast last 2 or so days !

I'd say DB and Gavmiester are booking their flights to Maldives to avoid judging this month !

[ponch]

that looks unreal man!

here is a demo of my ib7 up this month. cheers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c_ZDSzpLnA