September 2015 Guitar of the Month

[andrewdosborne]

Finally got this one completed. TLA-1 kit neck, body & pickguard.

From top to bottom: Gotoh SG381 tuners, Gotoh string tree, bone nut, frets levelled & crowned. 3x coats of TO on neck/fretboard. Neck has a very slim shim at at the head stock end of pocket (about 1/2 credit card depth). 'Fifth' logo - this was my 5th build....

Body: Dyed with Dylon 'Goldfish Orange'. Grainfilled with a light Timbermate (I think maple?) with 4 coats of TO. Pup bridge: Tonerider hotclassic. Bridge pup from a F*r standard Tele. Bridge: Wilkinson compensated. Input jack - modern US style. US Tele spec electrics with tone bleed mod. Neck plate from Realparts. Used good chrome quality screws.

Body has a tummy and arm cut.

Hard to capture this in a photo in light and with low-resolution upload. There are a lot of gold highlights that do not show up face on.

[andrewdosborne]

And some sunny/close-ups of the body.

[wokkaboy]

nice one Chips it's come up really nicely and you've done some nice mods with the shaping and upgrades.
I'm sure the tele napper will be happy with a couple of tele entries this month !
Now the build is entered Chips you better get back on your bike on the Californian Highway bro !

[andrewdosborne]

nice one Chips it's come up really nicely and you've done some nice mods with the shaping and upgrades.
I'm sure the tele napper will be happy with a couple of tele entries this month !
Now the build is entered Chips you better get back on your bike on the Californian Highway bro !

Cheers Woks, yep Chippy will have to get back on the freeway again (after I pick up some Nitro for next build . I cannot book myself!

[wokkaboy]

Cheers Woks, yep Chippy will have to get back on the freeway again (after I pick up some Nitro for next build . I cannot book myself!

haha nice one Chips. Well if the leader of the naughty warehouse can use nitro then anyone can !
whats the next build the ash jazz bass mate ?

[andrewdosborne]

haha nice one Chips. Well if the leader of the naughty warehouse can use nitro then anyone can !
whats the next build the ash jazz bass mate ?

Yep, jazz bass here we come!

[Gavin1393]

Loving the close up Chips, need one outdoors pic with the afternoon sun on those highlight...we really need it to look awesome when we out it on the front page of PBG!

[andrewdosborne]

Loving the close up Chips, need one outdoors pic with the afternoon sun on those highlight...we really need it to look awesome when we out it on the front page of PBG!

Yep, need to whip out my decent camera and have a photo shoot on the weekend

[wokkaboy]

Hey Rabbitz, usually if a guitar/bass is intonated the saddles will be further back for the thicker wound strings and closer to the nut the thinner the string. Then the G string on a guitar is generally a bit further back than the D string then closer to the nut for B and E strings. See picture this is roughly what a bridge of a G type guitar should look like.
This of course is only a guide as it depends on nut height, string gauges, bridge height and the angle of the bridge relative to the nut.

You should tune the guitar then move the saddles until the open note is exactly the same as the 12th fret harmonic.

In regards to headstock logo thats a personal preference to the builder, totally up to you. The judges feel that if you have built the guitar you should be proud to put your name or a guitar name on the headstock

[pablopepper]

Some bloody nice stuff going on this month.