DrNomis_44's Gold Standard STA-1M Build.

[DrNomis_44]

Sorry guys, I'm junking this Gold Strat project guitar, I just went to spray a coat of Gold paint on the body after waiting over a week for the last coat to dry, then the guitar body fell down to the floor from where it was hanging and now the body has a dent in it, so I'm giving up on it, sorry, I tried but I don't think I can justify spending any more time and,or, money on doing anything music-related, I've had too much trouble with my guitars never staying in tune no matter what I do to try and fix them, I spent well over a year getting my Marshall amp fixed, I've been trying to pursue some kind of career in music since I was 21 years old and I'm 47 now, haven't gotten anywhere despite my best efforts, spent too much time trying to tune my guitars and keep them in tune rather than learning to play them or songs, I feel like my inspiration has been drained-dry out of me, so I can't justify spending any more time, and, or effort on it anymore, when I was at uni last year doing a music course, my classmates were learning songs faster than I was, so I don't have what it takes to succeed in the music industry.......sorry for my little rant, but that's my current situation, even my LP Studio guitar has turned out to be an expensive lemon, and I spent $2000.00 on it.


I've spent lots of money buying replacement parts for my guitars, only to find that the parts didn't fix them, I've lost count of how many sets of tuners I've bought (some real expensive ones from well known manufacturers), they all turned out to be junk, so I can't justify spending any more money on replacement parts either.


Darwin's climate/weather is really not conducive to building/finishing guitars anyway.

[DrNomis_44]

Apologies for my ranting, haven't been having some good days lately.

[FrankenWashie]

I am totally bummed out for you Doc☹️😭 This has been an Epic build thread, maybe a break is due for you to recharge and regroup eh? We'll all be here to cheer you on to the end.
As for the ding, just a bit of preemptive relic work going on maybe?

[DrNomis_44]

I am totally bummed out for you Doc☹️😭 This has been an Epic build thread, maybe a break is due for you to recharge and regroup eh? We'll all be here to cheer you on to the end.
As for the ding, just a bit of preemptive relic work going on maybe?

I just sent an email to Adam, asking him about the possibility of ordering a new body, I'm thinking that the paint-drying issues could be caused by the Dingotone finish I had applied prior to spray-painting the body, yeah, I know it sounds a bit far fetched, but what is interesting is that I haven't experienced anything like the same issues with spray-painting the HotRod Strat body, it has had no dingotone applied to it, I gave it a sanding-down, then sprayed it with primer, and then spray-painted it with Metallic Blue paint, and the paint dried properly, I don't think the weather has had anything to do with it since the weather had been the same when I spray-painted the Gold Strat body, and the HotRod strat body, perhaps there's a weird compatibility issue?

[FredA]

Keep it up Doc!
If it was easy you wouldn't be as proud of it at the end.
Have a break, regroup and get that thing finished!
You can do it!!!

[DrNomis_44]

Cheers guys, I just got an email back from Adam, he's going to see what he can do for me about a new body for the Gold Strat,hopefully I'll be able to get the thing finally finished.

[adam]

Hey DrNomis, give me some time with this, the shipment arrived on Friday and we have a tonne of backorders and custom orders to sort through.

Flick me an email if you don't hear anything by Wednesday.

Hey, this thread is 121 pages!! Is this the longest thread on the Forum?

[Zandit75]

Hey, this thread is 121 pages!! Is this the longest thread on the Forum?

In the build section, it's almost double the amount of the one in second place! So to answer your question, it's not only longest thread on this forum, but probably the entire internet!!!

[DrNomis_44]

Hey DrNomis, give me some time with this, the shipment arrived on Friday and we have a tonne of backorders and custom orders to sort through.

Flick me an email if you don't hear anything by Wednesday.

Hey, this thread is 121 pages!! Is this the longest thread on the Forum?

No worries, will do mate, cheers.

[wazkelly]

Hi Doc, trying to make a living solely out of the music industry is very, very tough and as a result not many people make enough to get by.

I'm a little bit older than you but remember when at about 17 or 18 going through similar things and being so obsessed about everything that it tended to dampen the fun factor which is really important because if you are no longer enjoying what you do the outcome is even poorer results, and this rings true for most things in life. These days I haven't played seriously for ages and just noodle around a bit to amuse myself but the best part is that because I am under no pressure things come to me a lot easier than they did before. Also, there are times when you may not be in the 'zone' and that is when nothing seems to be going right. That is a signal to switch off and come back later or another day when you are in a better headspace.

It is fun reading all your threads and posts as you are talented and clearly a very passionate and caring person. As a community here at PBG you have so many followers and supporters who want to see you succeed and hope this is just a point in time where you need to pause and take a break so that you can return refreshed and ready to rip into things again.

Understand your frustration with the Ash body Gold Strat project as I reckon each and every one of us on this forum at some stage has experienced similar setbacks and we are all here to help you get back on the horse so to speak.

If I lived in Darwin I would offer to come around and help you finish it off but sadly I am about 4 hours flying time away. Rather than bin the body I would be willing to finish it off for you if it was posted to me as originally it looked sensational and truly believe you need to show off the grain rather than hide it under a solid metallic colour.

We are all here to help you in any way we can.

Cheers, Waz