October 2015 Guitar of the Month

[Fretworn]

Nice one Gavmeister

[dingobass]

Day-yam.....
Two trouser fails in five minutes........
Did I mention I hate you guys?

[Gavin1393]

Day-yam.....
Two trouser fails in five minutes........
Did I mention I hate you guys?

Would you have preferred........

This is my PBG entry for GOTM. Unfortunately I lost the body of the guitar when the neighbours dog ran off with it. I guess I should not have skimped on the Uluru Red by dabbing the body with a raw steak... I have done my best to shape the tele body with a piece of wood I found on the side of the road. Not sure of the tonal qualities of chip board.
Unfortunately in my attempt to stop the dog running off with my stuff I grabbed the nearest items within my reach and hurled these at the dog, missing by a mile and sliding into the nearest drain at the end of the road. Needless to say, ever since I cannot find the pickups, jack, knobs, wiring or capacitors for my guitar. Do you think these could have been in the packet I threw at the dog?

I realise I had to post a picture of the guitar, the headstock and the back of the guitar. Unfortunately I had an issue with the neck as can be seen from the pictures. I wanted to replace the plastic nut with a bone nut 'bone for tone' and reading an excellent article by DB on the forum I proceeded to use my electric saw to remove the plastic nut (I didn't have the Japanese saw DB uses but you make do with what you have.) I think I may have cut too deep and might have weakened the neck somewhat that it snapped in two when I took the second picture.

Photographing the back of the guitar also presented me with a new problem. The reason the chipboard was thrown out - termites!!!

I'm really disappointed but hope you can make my day by voting my effort as GOTM.

[dingobass]

You are such a dag, Gav

[jarrod]

Mmmm no head stock decal and the intonation looks out otherwise it could be a winner

[wokkaboy]

I agree with DB. You are a dag Gav.
Jrod think you are onto something

[bullatagate]

so: enter your others.. you won't come last!

very little care used here.... due to inherent impatience and lack of confidence in outcome

built in 2 nights, leaving aside some days for drying of danish oil

3 coats of purple fountain pen ink from daughter
3 coats of danish oil from garage

parts aged from chrome by either 'polishing' with scrubber from under sink, or getting daughter to colour in with texta
special unique in between pickups sound from dodgy soldering....

remarkably.... plays great and sounds good ....

EXTRA bonus! ... my bandmates keep their distance on stage, leaving spotlight to me...

Seriously: I was astonished how much fun building this was, and how well it turned out. Also, every time I had any question in my mind, I searched the forum and found an answer.

[jarrod]

Say loud say proud. Looks fantastic

[keloooe]

Hey Gav, where's the truss rod cover? Come on, you don't want to lose THIS one too?!

[wokkaboy]

@ Bullatagate, if you didn't rush the build so much you could have improved the build quality in a few areas. Purple stain looks pretty cool. Would also improve your chances of getting better marks if the photos were of the completed build ! Glad you enjoyed the 2 day build is almost a record on the forum.
@ Gavmiester I agree with Pesty where is the truss rod cover mate ?