April Guitar of the Month (for Guitars and Basses finished in March 2018)

[FredA]

And here's my entry for this month: Fred's JBA4 JPJ

Body abused with steel wire brush to deepen the grain, then tinted black with Feast & Watson Black Japan Prooftint, with about 10 coats of True Oil, no sanding or buffing.
Neck natural with 4x coats of True Oil.

Upgrades:
* Upgraded tuners
* Tusq graphtec nut
* Silver dot markers
* Babicz full contact bridge
* Routed to accomodate 3rd pup and switches
* Custom pick guard to accomodate neck and middle pups
* Jaguar switch plate and switches to select pups
* Jack moved to side to allow for 4x knobs on front plate
* Tonerider Pickups: Jazz Plus for neck and bridge and Precision Plus for middle
* CTS pots with Orange Drop cap

Build diary: Here



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[Fretworn]

When you say 'mask', you mean just covering it with masking tape when staining, and hoping for the best, right?
Stewmac have a good video; is this what you meant by scraping? I'm a noob, but I'm gonna try to hound all you guys for as much information as I can get! haha



What exactly do you mean by polishing? Like, steel wool, sanding sealer etc? What products do you recommend? Cheers!

Our resident luthier, Dingobass, suggests polishing the binding with 0000 steel wool prior to staining.

[ShazzRandom]

I’m so excited to have finished this beast! It’s been almost a year since I purchased the kit but unfortunately Uni took priority. Here is my modded triple hum SG. Was originally a 2 pup, but I routed in the middle pup hole. She looks so mean and plays rather well. This is the first time I’ve used dye on timber, I believe I did the burst quite nicely considering!
All hardware is stock except for a no named push pull for the middle pup and I used braided and tinned wire.
I have a build diary and also a Vlog of sorts on the tubes, but I am behind on the vlog exiting... but if you want to check it out here it is YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...5p48nAaTbJkgGs
Build Diary: http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...d.php?p=133947

[ShazzRandom]

I can only post low quality pics... how can I get around this? Does being on a computer make a difference?

[ShazzRandom]

She changes colour in the light, here’s a few other pics!

[Marcel]

Love the colour in/of that SG Shazz...

[ShazzRandom]

Love the colour in/of that SG Shazz...

Thanks marcel!

[wazkelly]

Gorgeous shade of Purple Shazz. Nice and shiny too. Has the fretboard had any wax or oil as it looks quite light in comparison to the rest?

Cheers, Waz

[ShazzRandom]

Gorgeous shade of Purple Shazz. Nice and shiny too. Has the fretboard had any wax or oil as it looks quite light in comparison to the rest?

Cheers, Waz

Hey Waz. I did oil it, though it didn’t seem to hold. Gotta get some nice proper fret oil

[Simon Barden]

It is probably is very dry (it looks it), so will soak up quite a lot of oil. Just keep applying it a bit at a time until it's not disappearing within a few hours, then wipe the excess off.