Patrick from Davis
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Well, after a very long time, I have a sort of completed guitar. The finish still needs work, but I have conceded that it would be best to wait until the weather is a bit more cooperative. The basic facts are:
Strat Warmoth Pro neck
Macassar Ebony neck and board
SS6105 frets
LSR Nut
Planet Wave tuners
MOP dots
Korina Tele body with a Quilt Laminate
Bill Lawrence (the Man) 500L pickups, XL in the bridge and R in the Neck, Unshielded
Concentric Pots for Vol and Tone wired like a Les Paul
Quilt Maple was dyed three times using Reranch alcohol dyes, Black, Red, Yellow.
The body was sanded back after the black and the red dye jobs.
The black around the very edge was made darker with a q tip and dye
The dyes were blended with acetone on paper towels to get the finished effect
The Korina body was dyed with Reranch Amber Alcohol based dye. It turned nuclear carrot, so I removed as much dye as I could with alcohol on paper towel washes.
The finish is Deft Semi Gloss Lacquer
And of course pictures...
If you want larger pictures (1.1M and 1.4M) the front is here and the back is here.
The sound is loud and obnoxious, but that is what I was going for. I really have just finished getting the thing intonated, and it will take a while to settle in, but it is a bright guitar, but not thin at all. The Korina and Ebony work well for me sound wise. If you are wondering why it has a LSR nut and locking tuners, that is easy. I wanted a neck with them. It has to do with several decades ago and my guitar teacher having one of the early American Standards that had those things (Wilkinson at the time.) The Warmoth bug caught and I have purchased other stuff as well, but this was the first order. Off I go to plunk away on it...
Patrick
Strat Warmoth Pro neck
Macassar Ebony neck and board
SS6105 frets
LSR Nut
Planet Wave tuners
MOP dots
Korina Tele body with a Quilt Laminate
Bill Lawrence (the Man) 500L pickups, XL in the bridge and R in the Neck, Unshielded
Concentric Pots for Vol and Tone wired like a Les Paul
Quilt Maple was dyed three times using Reranch alcohol dyes, Black, Red, Yellow.
The body was sanded back after the black and the red dye jobs.
The black around the very edge was made darker with a q tip and dye
The dyes were blended with acetone on paper towels to get the finished effect
The Korina body was dyed with Reranch Amber Alcohol based dye. It turned nuclear carrot, so I removed as much dye as I could with alcohol on paper towel washes.
The finish is Deft Semi Gloss Lacquer
And of course pictures...
If you want larger pictures (1.1M and 1.4M) the front is here and the back is here.
The sound is loud and obnoxious, but that is what I was going for. I really have just finished getting the thing intonated, and it will take a while to settle in, but it is a bright guitar, but not thin at all. The Korina and Ebony work well for me sound wise. If you are wondering why it has a LSR nut and locking tuners, that is easy. I wanted a neck with them. It has to do with several decades ago and my guitar teacher having one of the early American Standards that had those things (Wilkinson at the time.) The Warmoth bug caught and I have purchased other stuff as well, but this was the first order. Off I go to plunk away on it...
Patrick