Olympic White Strat is what it should look like...

[bargeloobs]

I've always been more of a fan of being thrown in the deep end first.

Great philosophy man, it'll work out fine I guarantee.

[keloooe]

Hey nDR01d,
Did you do the switch mods yourself?

[nDR01d]

No way! I bought a kit from Guitar Fetish. http://www.guitarfetish.com/BHM-Styl...its_c_226.html Even so, there were instructions in the build that had me scratching my head. The worst bit is waiting for the paint to dry on the body so I still don't even know if it all works yet! I guess if you know your way around a 40 Watt soldering iron it shouldn't be that hard; and the bits in the kit seem to be pretty good quality.

[Nickosaurus]

Shouldn't be too bad to troubleshoot anyway.

[GeneralKaos]

Yeah, have confidence! You did a fine job, and if a gremlin messes with you there is plenty of help waiting here to sort it all out!

[stan]

nice neat job on the electronics

[nDR01d]

The last coat of paint went on today. 5 coats and the can is empty! Next, acrylic lacquer x 3 cans. Well, that's my estimate. I can still see some timber lines and some nasty paint drips near the neck pockets. I don't mind the timber lines and there's nothing some wet sanding of lacquer can't fix to get rid of the paint stuff ups... But all in all, for my first paint job, I'm super happy.

[gavinturner]

Paint job is looking great. A little wet sanding of the drips could get rid of them pre-lacquer? Either way she's gonna look really cool with some laquer!

cheers,
Gav.

[nDR01d]

OK, here's my head stock design. I'd like to give a major thanks to my good friend Tom at THDesigns for sitting down with me and coming up with this. This pic was a pdf so the conversion mucked up the text a bit, but I think you can definitely tell it's a swans head. I've called myself "Red Swan Guitars" - 'Red Swan' being an anagram of 'Andrews Guitars' as Andrew is my name.

[wokkaboy]

nice headstock design Andrew, so will it have a cover to make the swan shape or will that be defined with paint ?
I wondered who Red Swan Guitars were liked 4D Guitars lately.
Also just caught up with the wiring/pup mods looks way cool. I haven't seen the out of phase switching on all 3 pups done on the forum