I've decided not to go with the authentic headstock design this time. Inspired by watching Joe sketch some shapes on his bass headstock and then cutting with abandon, I got out a pencil, made a few arcs, made a few different ones, chose my favourite ones and got out the jigsaw. Result!
nice pleasing shape
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Yeah, I'm liking it a lot. Plenty of real estate for a name.
Killer shape mate!
cool headstock shape Glenn, pretty original shape too, should look great in blue, is that the plan ?
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scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
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scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
Thinking about it, wokka. Not sure if I'll be able to match the colour, given the black pre-treatment I've given the body. I could always do the same to the front of the headstock only, but I don't think it would take the same way to the rock maple as it does to the ash. Any advice?
That would be my concern too Glenn. Ash takes stain much differently.. It probably wouldn't match. I'd black it out personally or keep it natural.
yeah sure Glenn the maple takes the stain differently. I reckon its worth a crack to stain it black, sand it back and apply non reduced colortone, and if you can't match the colours I'd sand it off and go natural or black headstock as Nick suggested.
You won't really know till you see how the body colour goes with the colortone
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
Maybe do some tests on your headstock offcuts and see if you can get the effect that you want.
Scott.
My inclination is to go for a natural headstock and neck finish, with a gloss topcoat.
In the meantime ... BLUE COLORTONE ARRIVED TODAY!! So I had to use it.
I did a test of neat colortone in the scratchguard zone, and it was just too darn dark, so I diluted it with some water, and straight away got the result I wanted. Luckily I mixed a goodly amount at first instant. I was using a fine, small brush to apply it, and am very happy with the result. I think I'll be doing a wipe-on poly gloss finish on this, but am stoked with the colour.
First, here's where I got to with sanding the black back in the grain.
And here's the front with colour.
I'll do some better colour pictures when I have daylight and can rest the body on something instead of suspending it.
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