Sonics 3rd Build - The Young Blood SG

[Fretworn]

Wow! Freakin' wow!

[Sonic Mountain]

Thank you all for the positive feedback. It's great motivation to really push it.

This morning I did an initial setup, tweaked the neck a 1/4 turn and dropped the action. Much better. I've ball parked the intonation and its quite good, but I think it needs to be played and sit for a while to get it really bang on. Pretty normal. There is loads of adjustment left so that seems like it'll be good once finalised. I put the Ernie Ball '10's' on it. I also found my buzz, it wasn't the bridge earth, thats all fine, just a slightly inadequate solder on the switch earth, its now silent, even when the coils are split.

So buttoned it all and gave it another polish. I can see I few bits of polish I didn't quite get off in the pics, but oh well. This thing gets finger prints if you look at it .

Anyway, I'm calling this one done, here it is as of this morning.

[Adam Barnes]

That looks great sonic, how do the alumtones sound

[Sonic Mountain]

Very bright and clear. I'm planning on doing a back to back with the alincos in my hagstrom when I get the chance. Very high output. So far my favourite setting is both in humbucker mode, both selected, bridge tone all the way down and neck all the way up. It sounds huge just straight into the amp. I will do a vid after it's settled a bit.

[Simon Barden]

Very nice indeed. A job well done.

[Andyxlh]

That looks wonderful, well done!

[FrankenWashie]

Without meaning to cause you a conniption, where are going to site the strap buttons?

[Sonic Mountain]

I'm still thinking about it. I definitely prefer to play standing so they will be going on. I was thinking behind the neck join and the a bit off centre towards the 'top' of the guitar to help it hang with the neck up a bit. I'll probably just go ahead and do it today. Spent a bit of time playing with it last night. There are so many options it's a bit overwhelming for someone who normally cranks everything to 10 and selects the bridge pickup. So many different tones, it's a lot of fun. I'm thinking I might put 9s on it, that's what most of my other guitars have cause I'm a wuss, but I'll give the 10s a chance to grow on me. It does need a little bit of fret work as well, I'll see how I go today.

[Spawn25]

Wicked looking guitar mate. Love the finish on it and nice work with the mirror gloss finish.

[Sonic Mountain]

Thanks man, it really has come up well. I think the most important ingredient is patience. The finishing takes heaps of time and its easy to get too excited and rush things. The reality is that assembly happens very quickly, its worth taking the extra time to get it looking good first. Setup is a whole other story of course, my personal experience is that you need to do it a few times over a period of time to really get it right.

I popped the strap buttons on it this morning. I was worried about the 'neck dive' these are renowned for, but its actually pretty good. The playing position is a bit more left arm out, but nothing too uncomfortable.

I am currently uploading a half assed demo video which I will post soon.