Swanny's ES-12G

[andrewdosborne]

Looks the biz with the gold hardware!

[Swanny]

The last few days have been frustrating... designing a logo and getting it onto the headstock!

To start with, I'm not an artist when it comes to drawing or painting! I decided on a theme, and got to work using Paint, Word and GIMP to come up with a logo. Then I had to get it onto the headstock.

I'd decided on a black background on the head, and the logo was to be gold in colour. I got hold of some waterslide decal paper, and first test was a disaster! The ink just disintegrated in the water when I was ready to transfer it. After that, I tried spraying clear lacquer over the decal before I put it in water, and that worked. However the ink wasn't thick enough to show against the black background. I tried printing a colour chart as a decal, stuck that onto a black piece of timber.. and it pretty much disappeared into the black.

Next up, I tried printing onto an adhesive clear PVC sticker sheet, but the ink almost disappeared against the black.

Last option, was to cut out a stencil using the PVC sheet, and spraying the logo... that worked! It's not as exact as I would have liked, but it's not too bad.




Next up... compound and polish the neck, then get ready to glue it to the body!

[andrewdosborne]

I think you've done a good job there Swanny. Good idea with the PVC sheet template

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[Swanny]

Thanks Andrew!

[keloooe]

What Andrew said!

[Swanny]

Thanks dude!

[stan]

classy top shelf build, this will look great finished

[Swanny]

Thanks Stan! Appreciate the comments!

[Swanny]

A rainy day is a good day for polishing, so I stuck my neck out and got into it. I also got excited and fitted the tuners...



That's when I noticed that I had put the tuners on the wrong side...

Luckily, when I swapped them around, the holes were covered by the body of the tuners...





There's a few grain lines there... but they are just there to remind me it's timber! Honest!

[wokkaboy]

looks awesome Swanny, glad the tuner screw holes wrong way around aren't exposed. Did you get a gold hardware upgrade or is the hardware after market ? With 12 full size tuners does the headstock feel heavy ?
Lovely bit of grain showing there. This axe will be a piece of art when done.
Also love the headstock logo looks very cool, came up good for a template. How thick is the PVC sheet ?