DK's STA build

[dave.king1]

G'day all,

I've finally got around to making a start on the STA, had no end of trouble deciding on a headstock shape but finished up with the 50th Anniversary shape and so far the plan is to do the body a deep ebony colour

At the moment all the hardware and electrics will be standard but the pups will be upgraded to Seymour Duncan when I find where the grandkids have put them.

My band mates have suggested that I call my builds Ransom guitars which is kinda cute but there is a guy in the US who build guitars with this name.

Regardless of what I call it the model will be Tribute for fairly obvious reasons.

[gavinturner]

Headstock looks great Dave. Looking forward to seeing what you do with te body!

cheers,
Gav.

[stan]

nice start, how about Tribute Guitars then?

[Fretworn]

If you are after a pun on your surname, how about "Foraday" guitars or "For-a-day" guitars?

[dave.king1]

If you are after a pun on your surname, how about "Foraday" guitars or "For-a-day" guitars?

So many lines, so little time but guitar wise could be close to the truth. The stuff we are playing calls for Tele, Strat, HB Shergold & bass.

With its split coils the Shergold could just about cover for the Tele but lacks the wiggle stick of the Strat

[dave.king1]

After seeking advice in another thread I got the plastic nut out with issues that cause a great deal of angst.

They must have had surplus superglue in the factory and I finished up with a small piece of the top for the fretboard splitting off, got it back in place with PVA and unless you knew it's now hard to see.

After I took this pic I gave it a light sand with some 2000 and put some citrus oil on it and I'm almost happy again, also after the pic I gave the neck a coat of maple gloss stain. A couple more coats with a light sand in between should give it a nice aged look.

Below the area I circled there is a machining mark that has responded reasonably well to sanding and the oil

[stan]

nice fix Dave

[dave.king1]

Here's a couple of pics of the neck, three coats of maple gloss, a bit of a sand with 2000, hit it with some carnauba wax and the polishing pad.

Not too shabby even if I do say so myself and now on to the body

[dave.king1]

Did the body with the Sikens ebony stain and was rather underwhelmed so have sanded it back, refilled the grain and am now thinking about a solid colour.

Probably something bright in a rattle can from the Septone acrylic range, this could change between front door and the shop though.

[dave.king1]

Here's some before and after pics of the stained body and then rubbed back and filled, being a 3 piece body the grain was all over the place so solid colour here we come.

The colour is chosen and the guitar will be know as "The Count" ( due to a funny event when I first met my wife )

Just hit it with a couple of coats of acrylic filler / undercoat and now to sand and recoat