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    Hello

    Hi there,
    I'm Dave, from Boston, MA. I built guitars, mostly from scratch, for several years and took a hiatus. Now, I'm back! I bought a Pitbull RCA-4 kit to get back into the swing of things with a kit... Hopefully, I do it justice!

    Im sure Ill be around,
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    Hi Dave and welcome.

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    Hey Dave, welcome along. We would love to see some of your previous builds. Have fun!
    'As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.'

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    welcome Dave, I'm also interested to see any pics of your scratch builds please !

    You should rock out the RCA-4, you staining it or solid colour ?
    Current Builds and status
    scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
    JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
    Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck

    Completed builds
    scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
    MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
    Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in

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    Welcome Dave
    Current:
    GTH-1

    Completed:
    AST-1FB
    First Act ME276 (resurrected curb-side find)
    ES-5V
    Scratchie lapsteel
    Custom ST-1 12 String
    JBA-4
    TL-1TB
    Scratch Lapsteel
    Meinl DIY Cajon
    Cigar Box lap steel

    Wishing:
    Baritone
    Open D/Standard Double 6 twin neck

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    Thanks everyone. On the RCA-4, Im going to stain.. Im planning on hand carving into the top, ala Lemmy.. I have some other plans as well. It will definitely be unique. I have 2 of my builds here. Ill snap some pics soon. One is a '52 Tele in butterscotch blonde, made from solid swamp ash. the thing weighs a ton. I used a replacement neck on that one.. Cant remember where I got the neck from. The other is an Explorer style body, made from Alder, with a figured Sapele top. I used a BC Rich neck on that one. Im very scared to build a neck! All pictures of the actual build processes, are buried in a box somewhere.. that was before I had a camera in my pocket all the time! Others I built, are long gone. I may be able to dig out pictures of those someday.. One was a Duosonic/Mustang type guitar with an original fender neck.. that was a nice one.. I gotta have pics of that....

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    Here's a link to some pics. As my wise father once said (God rest his soul).."If there weren't any f#ckups, you wouldn't know you did it yourself".. I definitely did these myself! lol.. Enjoy.. Oh, and please ignore the dust!!!!
    http://1drv.ms/20OlzjM
    Last edited by dingobass; 22-02-2016 at 07:53 AM.

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    Really like that tele build, then again i really like teles...

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    Nice work on previous builds Dave and welcome!

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    Thanks! That Tele was fun.. I aged all the hardware, relic'd the finish, etc...

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