With this build you get 2 for the price of 1. The finished guitar I did about 5 years ago with a kit from another Australian website before I found Pitbull. I replaced the original humbucker pups with a set of Agent 90's from Realparts and finished it in a cherry stain which seeing as this was my fourth build after my 335 I was happy but now after a few builds I am not and want to change it to look the same as the SG bass I got from Pitbull. I am going to replace the pickguard with a full guard which means partially plugging the neck pup cut-out and putting in a new one. I am going to paint it black and replace the tuners with some original Klusons so it looks a little more like a store bought and not a generic kit.It plays and sounds good with the exception of the frets which were finished incorrectly when I got it so I may change them and redo the nut. When playing the high E has a tendency to slip off the side when doing pull offs due to the fret ends having too much angle.
I have 2 of all the popular guitars, like the LP , strat and tele , 4 store bought and 7 kit, so I wanted another SG but I decided to go for a bass as I only have 1 bass and would like some more. As for the Pitbull bass I am going to do it in black paint, replace the pickguard with a home made one to match the full guard as on the guitar and replace the 2 pickups with just 1 which means plugging a few of the other control holes. Still deciding what pup to use but it comes down to the dollar cost. Was looking at either a Kent Armstrong or a TV Jones. Was leaning towards the Kent as I have used them before and like them but depends on how much postage as at this moment the cost of postage is almost as much as the pup.
As per pictures I marked out the side bevels last night and went shopping this morning and got some wood rasps and roughed the bevels. Will finish the bevels with files and start sanding and put a radius around the outside. Once I have finished I will then strip the hardware off the guitar and put the same bevels on it to match the bass.
The kit tuners were a little rough and were binding when turned due to a burr on the end so I stripped them and took the rough edges off and gave them a good lube with some Vaseline and now they are really smooth.
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