iNSANEs EX-1L BMW Build

[iNSANE]

After a short wait for my EX-1L kit to arrive, it finally showed up on Friday.

After a sunny Saturday afternoon of sanding, I have managed to get the Deep Colour coat on.
I'm happy with the way that it is coming along so far. The Black Magic Woman Wudtone went on pretty well on the front and back of the body, but took a bit more effort to get onto the edges.





My initial plan is to do a burst finish with the darker black on the outer edges and the more transparent/lighter colour in the center.

In the meantime, while the Wudtone dries, I have a few things to clean up on the neck.
The edges of the nut are very angular and sharp and having larger hands, will need to be rounded a bit.
As well as dressing the frets. I think these will make a nice Sunday job.

[phloggy]

/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from iNSANE on August 24, 2013, 19:22

My initial plan is to do a burst finish with the darker black on the outer edges and the more transparent/lighter colour in the center.

You're doing a black-burst? That sounds cool. I can't wait to see it.

[Rohan]

I am definitely going to do a Black Magic build at some point. Will be watching this diary with interest

Looking good so far!

[WeirdBits]

It can be tough to wrangle with, but it's a great looking colour when you get it working. That axe is going to look stunning when it's finished.

And, best of all, it looks like the bridge holes on the kit have been drilled correctly for a lefty.

[iNSANE]

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You're doing a black-burst? That sounds cool. I can't wait to see it.[/quote]


I think the burst will be rather subtle, seeing how dark the Deep Colour is. Time will tell

[DanMade]

Hey man. Another lefty, seems like half the people here are lefty's.

That BMW does look great. Are you going to sand back in the center of the burst or just try and get darker coats on the edges.

[iNSANE]

/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from DanMade on August 24, 2013, 22:13
Hey man. Another lefty, seems like half the people here are lefty's.

That BMW does look great. Are you going to sand back in the center of the burst or just try and get darker coats on the edges.

I'm not surprised to see so many lefties. It's hard enough to get descent lefty guitars as it is, but with these kit guitars you can make it as you want, as opposed to buying name brand guitars that are more often than not either the lower end or higher end guitars with very few colour options.


As for the burst, I'm going to give it a another day 24 hours to dry, it seems to have bought out some of the grain quite nicely overnight, but it is still quite dark. I was originally going to just darken the edges, but I now think i might rub the center back a bit with the steel wool a a bit. I'll still darken the edges as well.

[gavinturner]

Looking great! Can't wait to see how the burst comes out.

Cheers,
Gavin.

[Tim]

Looking good, the BMW looks great.
Are you going to do any mods

[iNSANE]

/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from Tim on August 25, 2013, 10:53
Looking good, the BMW looks great.
Are you going to do any mods

Hi Tim,
I've got a couple of mods already planned. I have some alpha 500k pots and an orange drop cap left over from an upgrade I was going to do on an Ibanez. I will most likely swap the selector switch as well.
I'll stick with the chrome hardware that came with the kit, I was going to go with black, but I think the chrome will go well with the black burst.

There is another small mod that I am going to try, I wanted to use some chrome pickup rings on the build, but the two that I have in my parts box are low profile. I originally had them on a guitar with a floyd trem. They are only about 3-4mm high, so I'm going to mount them on top of the black plastic ones that came with kit. I actually looked pretty good when I put the pickups in them and layed out the guitar. 8-)

The only other thing I usually change is the pickups, but I need to play the guitar a bit first. I don't want to buy pickups without knowing how the guitar sounds naturally. Besides, the kit pickups might sound good enough as they are