IB - Freebie

[FrankenWashie]

This one has been bubbling away in the background of the Franken Lab for a wee bit. It comes with a bit of a Back story.

It was a freebie kit that vh2580 was giving away. His brief was that it had some neck issues, some potential scale length issues and it was missing routs for covers and covers. He sent it down with a ton of kit PUPs and some other bits of electrickery.

I've had to make a new board for it, rout some additional channels for the cavity cover (I made this magnetically attached) and re rout to get a land to secure the locking nut for the output deep panel jack.
Fretty, fretty, SLotty Slotty
New fretboard in place, slotted and radiused, Scale length issue sorted.
Cover rout, with carved Ply cover (I Might just make paint that black)
First coat of DT Clear going on the spalt
Magnetically attached cover for that no screw look.

I'm now just playing around with the old board to work out if I can attempt some inlay.
This one is getting some Entwistle X3s in it, I may yet Direct mount them, but at present it will just be a pair of pup rings going on it. '

The lever switch has been deleted in favour of a DPDT ON ON ON mini switch as there was never room enough to mount the normal lever switch any how, and after my cover rout, there is definitely no room now.
The slots has been filled with a rose wood insert, crafted from the offcut from the locking nut position at the top of the fret board.

So we are into the DT and hopefully we should be getting somewhere with this one soon.

[FrankenWashie]

It also has some lovely grain patter on the rear, I have elected not to put a cover over the trem cavity to help keep the nice clean lines to it, though i think I will probably spray this black. Earth will be to the trem post via the post hole.

[Dedman]

these are busy days down in the lab Frankie

[FrankenWashie]

Yeah I know Dedman, I really need to tackle one project at a time... or hire an Igor.

[Adam Barnes]

Thanks franken and your telling me to get 2 kits

[FrankenWashie]

Thanks franken and your telling me to get 2 kits

Yeah, only two though. I think I'm working on 6. Two is one drying while you sand the other! 😋

[FrankenWashie]

A question for the DT afficianados, do you use the boy stain on the neck for a natural finish, or do you go to the neck specific kit?
Or do we not bother?

Advice please

[FrankenWashie]

Thanks franken and your telling me to get 2 kits

SO have you bought both the other kits yet?

[wokkaboy]

Hey Frankie I missed this thread. Nice looking IB ! So whats the background was this a kit or a scratchie ? Nice spalt on the body and what is the fingerboard timber ?
DB says the neck DT kits cure a bit harder so it might be worth getting a DT neck kit. The body kit may not be as durable for the abuse a neck will get

[FrankenWashie]

IT was a failed kit that vh2580 had inherited from some one but didn't have the time to fix. He popped it up on the swap page a while back and I grabbed it.
It had a short scale 24 fret board, but somebody had tried to adapt this into a 24 fret long scale guitar. It just wasn't going to work. they'd trimmed the neck heel and left a 2 fret overhang to try and get it all to fit to scale, but that just made things worse.

I've stripped the board cleaned up the end of the Neck heel and got it fitting right. the new board is a dark rosewood (a PBG Blank i got from Adam) and it has had to be reconfigured to 22 frets.
I'm happy to say that I've slotted it, attached it, radiused it and created the locking nut seat at the top and the thing measures dead on for a 648mm scale length now, exactly 324mm at the 12th and ditto to the bridge.

The DT clear is going on lovely, and I will likely get a neck kit as given the amount of work its taken to get the neck up to par I don't want to have to re-finish it any time soon!