G'day all,
Figured there are few better ways to spend the hours locked indoors right now than building a new guitar, so here goes! I did a couple of kits (a V and 7-string) six or seven years ago without ever posting here, and a non-kit build before that, so I daresay it'll take a while to pick it all up again. Still, looking forward to getting stuck into it.
Opted for the GS-2Z, with a couple of bells and whistles; upgraded the tuners to a set of mini locking Grovers and the pickups to a set of Entwhistles - a Dark Star for the bridge and an HVX for the neck. I'm... I'm not really aiming for a subtle sound here.
Kit arrived today and gotta say, very pleased with how the veneer looks:
Plan is to stain the back and sides black, and the top and headstock red. Hopefully the brown streaks in the zebrawood darken up under the stain to give it a strong red/black contrast on top. I had originally thought about doing a first coat of black stain, sanding it back, then getting started with the red to emphasise said contrast, but I'm not sure the veneer will survive through that. Anyone tried something along those lines with a veneered kit?
Before staining there's a bit of work to be done around the binding. Most of it's fitted nice and snug around the edges, but there are three areas - two in and around the top cutaway in particular - which will need to be filled:
Any ideas for what'll work best there? Initial thoughts are to get some sawdust from sanding the back of the body and fill it up with a mixture of that and superglue, but would be grateful for any other suggestions.
Other than that, I'll do a mock build either tomorrow night or the weekend and mark off where I need to glue in the neck to get the scale length right, and get sanding and staining after that.