November GOTM.

[cork sniffer]

Dear God, Waz!

Best laugh so far this week :-)

[Spawn25]

Hi guys,

Here is my 1st guitar build. The IB-7 . Had a lot of fun building it and I'm glad it works and sounds great. Playing a lot of Trivium on it at the moment.

To get the finish on it, I started with sealing it with timber primer and sealer. Sanded and masked a fine line edge around the guitar and masked the face of the head, then stained with a black wood stain. Sanded again in the centre of the guitar and head, then stained again to get the desired look. I like the maroon tones of it in direct sunlight.

The neck was finished with a satin clear coat. The gloss finish is an automotive clear coat, where I sanded it flat and gave it a good cut and polish for that mirror finish. Glad I got it looking as good as my purchased guitars.

Hope you all like what I've come up with.

[Souhail]

Whaooo Amazing look !!!

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[Brendan]

We've had an entry from Amber Hansen. She says...

This is my first guitar kit build so it’s a little rougher than what I had wanted it to be but I am proud of what I have accomplished. I put EMG T-Set pickups in instead of the factory stock, I had to cut my own pick guard out of the original kit because I didn’t want to cover up all that resin pattern that I worked so hard to do, and also because the routed hole for the neck pickup was for a humbucker size so my single coil I put in there would have looked odd if I didn’t cover up the rest of the routed pocket. For the resin pattern I built a Litchenberg device out of an old microwave transformer to burn the “fractal/lightning” pattern, then filled the burn marks with a blue resin. There are many more custom things I did that would take forever to list like the string ferrules, engraving signature and filling with resin, gotoh bridge instead of the stock, adding black stain and sanding it back to only fill in the grain.

[chrissyinbkk]

Oh I like the look of that

[vh2580]

Niiiiice!!

[Spawn25]

Very cool build Amber. Love what you have done with the resin.

[FrankenWashie]

I can understand wanting to minimise the pickguard coverage. Wonderful work Amber, especially on building the Lichtenberg rig! A truly electric guitar,

[wazkelly]

Just wondering if the neck has been bolted on straight? Rear shot has it looking at an angle whilst front close up has lots of strip gap on low E side and almost none on high E side.
Otherwise looks great.

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[wazkelly]

String gap.....mobile phones and predictive text!!!

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