The Deluxester Prototype - Sonic's foray into repeatable scratch builds

[wazkelly]

Looking good Sonic.

[blinddrew]

What he said ^^^

[Sonic Mountain]

Thanks guys. Driving me crazy sitting around waiting for it to be done drying.

Next one I'm doing in satin, so much easier to get a nice finish.

[RocknRolf]

Looks amazing, love the grain on the headstock!

Bummer about the swelling! Even with being careful you might not get it perfect. Don't know if this is used by others but, I used soft surfwax, that stuff is totally water repelling and gives you a good grease to drive the screws in when finishing.

[Sonic Mountain]

Honestly just a case of getting a bit over excited.

This has been a bit of a finishing nightmare trying to get it up to the standard I'm after, the actual piece of wood is just not ideal and has presented plenty of challenges.

I'm well over it now, so I'll let this coat cure and then just go ahead with assembly.

[Adamc]

Sonic that is a magnificent work of art you've made there. I've been looking and looking and I haven't seen the order form yet! But I can totally see one in my collection of guitars I can't play properly. You should be incredibly proud of this build. And thanks for sharing all the slip ups along the way. Sometimes I wonder if it's just me that makes these blues, so it's great to see that an amazing guitar can be salvaged from some dire situations. Can't wait to see it assembled., so I can only imagine how frustrated you must be feeling.


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[McCreed]

Don't know if this is used by others but, I used soft surfwax, that stuff is totally water repelling and gives you a good grease to drive the screws in when finishing.

I do bee's wax. Timely post, as I just posted about it in another thread yesterday!
I do have some Sex Wax though (it's for surf boards, for all you dirty minded out there) may have to try it someday.

[Sonic Mountain]

Thanks Guys. Yeah, I'm normally pretty careful with wet sanding since I made this mistake on my first ever build. It's repaired now, not quite perfect, but I'm over trying for that now. I just want to see how the damn thing plays.

AdamC, thanks for that, I appreciate your kind words. Certainly helps with motivation. I always try and share my mistakes, I'm by no means an expert at this game and the best thing about this forum is the shared knowledge base.

I'm pretty much ready to go with Protoype 2 - which should hopefully happen a lot more quickly than this one has. I'm still within my goal of completing V1 in a year, but that deadline is fast approaching. I just want to be sure of the changes I've made to the templates before I get them cut. At this stage I will probably source a piece of Camphor Laurel for the next one as its readily available here, hopefully it'll be a bit more stable than this piece of stringy bark.

[Sonic Mountain]

I wasn't going to share this for a little while, but here is the plan going forward for some variations on the Deluxster and what will be the Shoegazer MKII. The deep aqua one on the left is essentially the same as this current build, with some changes to the neck pocket and overall size of the body. The one I've called the Sonicaster here is probably really just a Deluxster variant. That's the next build as I have a lot of the hardware already.

Then I'll see where I'm at. The next two are the same core guitars with different body shapes, but I might keep going with this OG shape for a while before I get into those. I'll see how I feel as things progress.

[FrankenWashie]

Sonic that is a magnificent work of art you've made there. I've been looking and looking and I haven't seen the order form yet! But I can totally see one in my collection of guitars I can't play properly.

You took the words out of my mouth. Especially that second sentence.