Montana

Stan had "pinkcaster", lawry came up with "chickaster".

It's official, competition too close so there is no winner. Both very good.

Yes , Gavin the finish turned out ok, it could be better but I'm happy with it. It took a lot of sanding and respraying
but I think Montana will think it's great and that's the main thing.

Her birthday is not until February, so I may get to "play it in a little" be for she gets it.

[lawry]

I think it's the perfect gift. She's bound to be rapt. Great build Ricmo, you should be proud.

[Brendan]

/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from Ricmo on October 31, 2013, 18:08

Her birthday is not until February, so I may get to "play it in a little" be for she gets it.

I think the term is break it in. It's all part of the service - making sure that it all works, etc. before you give it away.

[lawry]

Yeah. Sort of like a pre-flight check. You'll be doing her a favour.

[GlennGP]

That's why I still have the Red Menace... Making sure it works properly before delivery!

Hey! Thanks for the thumbs up, now I wont feel bad, It will be played to find out if there any faults, and make sure it is going to be good enough (he he he he he he).

ok, today I put the bridge on set the tremelo up but then blocked it.
Put the strings on and set it up, will finalise it over the next few days.
Haven't played it yet, it works as the tuner done it's job.
Hey might just play it now, hold on a second.

Having troublle with my blue tooth so sent the pic by email. dont matter here is a pic of the front and back. Gosh hope it worked.
If not I'll try later now to the guitar.

Well, well, well,,,,that was nice. just played an old instrumental (southern 'aura) {I think thats how it's spelt}.
Ok, first off all mods worked as expected, or hoped. My master tone works on all three pups', and the diods are working over time.
On the back pup, it is harsh (although I have my hearing aids in) if the highs are not rolled off a bit.
It is set up so that zero is off and as its turned up to 10 it increases the distortion, overdrive, under drive (?) or whatever. Which means zero when just playing,,,UNLESS {hehehe}
Tomorrow I'll give it a bit if a working over and try it through the blues jr and see what it really sounds like.

I'm interested to see if the pic turned out so until next time.

Ok, it didn't, maybe one day I'll figure these computers out.

Here they are.
Just noticed the pink paint on the neck screws, and I dont know what that white is on the machine heads
The paper has been off for some time, must be the flash hold on, oops sorry it is the paper, dont know why I didn't notice before.

[lawry]

Looks fantastic Rick and I'm glad all the wiring worked out for you. I noticed in the top picture that there is a lot of shine on the fretboard, have you put something on it? (You have probably already answered that in a previous post I suppose). I reckon you're going to have a very happy young lady with a smile on her face soon. I'm pretty keen to hear how the clipping mod (diodes) sounds in various combos. Any chance of uploading some sound bites or a video? Congrats.

Hi lawry, ummm, you want to know all my secretes! Ok no need to twist my arm, I decided to oil it and thought that I might try tru oil (which I did). I really like the feel of my tele, both finger board and neck, it is sooooo smooth. I was hoping to copy that but fell way short (not that this is bad, just that the tele is very very good).

As for a sound sample, although I have heaps of recording stuff, I hate to say this, but I cant use it. Can't even get the garage band on the computer to work, and hopeless to try to get the boss going, and dont even talk about the other stuff (mostly for computer recording, thats never worked) it just dont work for me. I have recorded my friend, but never been happy with anything I put down. BUT may be one day it might come together.

Have given it a bit of a play today (misses dont like it distorted very much), everything is working fine. It is very LOUD, if I move the volume any lower on either the amp or guitar it dont make any noise, it hums, just too much power I think and the diodes dont appear to take anything away from the sound at all. I'm happy that I put them in, although I might change it to two instead of four, UuuuMmmmm , maybe next time.