November Guitar of the Month

[Scott J.]

Stunning job, Scott, simply stunning! ... I reckon the judges are hating you right now - you just made this month's GOTM a whole lot tougher than it already was! ... another incredibly worthy potential winner!

[dingobass]

Thats it..... I give up.... I wonder if I go on holidays to outer Mongolia will I get out of judging this month......

[Gavin1393]

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Thats it..... I give up.... I wonder if I go on holidays to outer Mongolia will I get out of judging this month......

To avoid judging this month I have decided to enter my beautiful Telecaster Delux in Olympic white with gold bling and gold scratch plate.

Fitted with TV jones pickups at the bridge and neck, this baby is built to sing! Probably the best work I have done to date on the forum!
I cannot stress enough about the advantages of leaving the paint to cure properly as in this example.
Buffing the body really brings out the glossy deep finish you see here. Here are the results (took the guitar outside and laid it gently on the grass to make the most of the sun.



First a close up of the body of the guitar. She really is a beautiful looking guitar! Notice how the gold bling is accentuated by the white colour Olympic girl.
I did think about using chrome or black but after finding the gold scratch plate it was no contest really.

On to the second picture:

Pic of the neck, done in Wudtone clear. Really shows off the maple fretboard magnificently. Did the standard fret dress on this baby and got the action down really close without any buzzing whatsoever. Electrics are pretty standard except for the micro-switch I threw in to coil split the TV joneses.

Third picture:

Finally, the back of the........WTF?

Hahaha great guitar Gav

[Brendan]

Sorry Gav, the reflection off the gloss finish has meant that I can't see the detail on the guitar - can you take another photo so that I too can bask in it's radiance? Maybe a different angle?

[GlennGP]

I am humbled to be able to join such amazing company this month, entering the long-awaited "Tania's Red Menace".

For those who came in late ...

This is a TL-1A kit with a couple of extras:
- white three-ply scratch-plate
- bone nut (thanks DB!)
- Wilkinson bridge with compensated saddles
- Wilde Bill Keystone pickups (Bill Lawrence)
- Alpha pots
- CRL switchgear
- Sprague Orange drop cap
- the tone fidelity circuit
- copper shielding in all cavities

I built this one primarily for sound rather than looks, though I tried hard to make it look the goods as well. I'm really pleased with the sound, getting great sustain and a great authentic Tele sound through those pickups.

But since this is a beauty contest, here are the pics. Front first:

[sfkhooper]

She's a beauty, Glenn. I wish my Tele kit came out that well! Best of luck in the comp!

[GlennGP]

And here's the back and headstock.

I have to say, it was a real challenge trying to capture the vibrant red finish on camera - it kept coming out kind of orange (like the right-hand side of the back, pictured below). I had to fiddle around with lighting and settings for a while to get it looking like it does in real life.



For those who are interested, this is Carmine Gypsy with the full gloss finish (3 deep colour coats, 7 colour coats and four coats of the gloss top coat, then polished). The neck is vintage yellow with non-ageing gloss top coat, but I like leaving the fretboard natural.

The guitar is for a friend named Tania, and it's kind of a sister-guitar to my own Yellow Peril, so it had to be "Tania's Red Menace".

[sfkhooper]

Love the decals, Glenn. How do you get them made up?

[GlennGP]

DIY, mate. I ordered the transparent water-slide decal paper for laser print online. The image is made up of three individual text images which I manipulated simply using Word in Office 2010, including creating the inner colour and black outline on the "gold" part. Then I "grouped" the images so I was able to scale the whole thing in one hit, checked the size of the space it was going to, scaled accordingly, and printed a couple on half a sheet (printer set for A5 paper), so that I had a few for safety, but didn't have to waste a whole sheet.