Tyro from Sydney

[Mercury]

Hi All,

Been playing guitar and various other instruments for a number of years now and have quite a collection of instruments in our family, including pianos, trumpets, accordions, ukuleles, violins and a bass. I've never built anything from wood before, nor soldered or even really sanded. The benefits of a migrant child's upbringing. :| However doing something like this in the future with my eldest son would be an adventure to be sure. Now if only PitBull can get busy creating that Duo-Sonic kit, as suggested in the "New Kit Ideas" sub-forum, we can get cracking!


Cheers,

Tony

[wokkaboy]

Hi Tony, welcome to the forum,
if you have no building experience I'd suggest starting on a simple kit like a ST-1 or TL-1 will help you learn and be better at building a duo-sonic kit if they ever become available !

[Brendan]

Tony - depending on you're son's age, may also be worthwhile looking at the 3/4 strats that are due soon. In terms of the skill level required, from memory, my Dad had a hammer and a screwdriver - not much and as such I had no experience with either before my first build - am now on my 3rd, 4th and 5th. Given limited skills though, it would be good to go with a TL / ST / PB / JB kit to start with - all require limited soldering skills and come with lots pre-wired.

[Mercury]

/<\\/p>[/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/]<\\/p>/Quote from wokkaboy on February 18, 2014, 14:43
Hi Tony, welcome to the forum,
if you have no building experience I'd suggest starting on a simple kit like a ST-1 or TL-1 will help you learn and be better at building a duo-sonic kit if they ever become available !

Hmm, a tele in vintage white might be nice... 8-)

[Mercury]

/<\\/p>[/<\\/p>[/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/]<\\/p>/]<\\/p>/Quote from Brendan on February 18, 2014, 21:34
Tony - depending on you're son's age, may also be worthwhile looking at the 3/4 strats that are due soon. In terms of the skill level required, from memory, my Dad had a hammer and a screwdriver - not much and as such I had no experience with either before my first build - am now on my 3rd, 4th and 5th. Given limited skills though, it would be good to go with a TL / ST / PB / JB kit to start with - all require limited soldering skills and come with lots pre-wired.

A short scale would kinda look cool on him, but the mini might be a bit of squeeze as he's a big boy now, almost 13. Brendan, what do you do with all of your completed kits? Sounds like one might need a spare room dedicated to a hobby like this...

[Fretworn]

Welcome Mercury! What part of Sydney are you from? I'm up Hornsby way.

[Scott J.]

Hi Mercury, welcome to the PBG clan!

You'll find that with just a bit of care and patience plus the instructional videos and all the guidance and advice the other PBG-fans provide on this forum, these PitBull kits will almost build themselves (well, the easier ones anyway! ) and with a proper "set-up" done on it after you've finished, you'll find they make remarkably fine-playing axes.

Be sure to start a build diary and post lots of pics of your progress (we all like watching these guitars come together - whether its our own or someone else's!

P.S. I'd think the Duo-sonic would be a relatively easy mod for a strat once you confident - shorten and round-off the horns, narrow it down a bit and rout new positions for two p/ups instead of three (but of course you'd need a different scratchplate).

[Mercury]

/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from Fretworn on February 19, 2014, 10:28
Welcome Mercury! What part of Sydney are you from? I'm up Hornsby way.

Thanks mate! I'm down in Strathfield.

[Mercury]

/<\\/p>[/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/]<\\/p>/Quote from Scott J. on February 19, 2014, 11:21
Hi Mercury, welcome to the PBG clan!

You'll find that with just a bit of care and patience plus the instructional videos and all the guidance and advice the other PBG-fans provide on this forum, these PitBull kits will almost build themselves (well, the easier ones anyway! ) and with a proper "set-up" done on it after you've finished, you'll find they make remarkably fine-playing axes.

Be sure to start a build diary and post lots of pics of your progress (we all like watching these guitars come together - whether its our own or someone else's!

P.S. I'd think the Duo-sonic would be a relatively easy mod for a strat once you confident - shorten and round-off the horns, narrow it down a bit and rout new positions for two p/ups instead of three (but of course you'd need a different scratchplate).

Hi Scott J! Thanks for the warm welcome. I guess you could create a long scale version of the Duo-Sonic doing it that way. Buy a pickguard from eBay etc., but I'm not confident I could get away with it, seeing that I don't have the tools for such a retrofit. I'll see what the future brings first, maybe there'll be a kit someday...
Meanwhile, young fella needs to pick an axe type and colour as a start. Do you think an LP Jr is an easy kit to start with like the Tele or Strat?

[wokkaboy]

Hi Tony,
I've never build a LP Jr but they should be quite straight forward to build, they only have 1 P90 pickup, 1 volume and 1 tone, so this would be a good entry level kit for you and your son to build.
Both the JR-1 and JR-1DC (double cut) are bolt on necks so less stressful than a glue in set neck.
Good choice !