exalted said:
Here's a picture of my strat knockoff in the case.
It fits snugly around the widest parts, but has room to breath everywhere else.
Please don't judge me based on that guitar! I was desperate to have something to play, and that poor old thing is very close to retirement now that I have my first Warmoth nearly up and running. :redflag:
Damnit!!!!!! It looks like the WGD won't fit from that pic.
Hey bro no judgements here, we all gotta start somewhere. Besides that, you should be seeing a ton of inspiration from that guitar. Don't retire it, refinish it!!!!! It looks like a blank canvas to me. I actually like knockoffs for that reason..... You will not feel bad about getting the belt sander out and going nuts on it. Seriously, once your Warmoth is done, think about refinishing that guitar. How does it play that is the important thing here, if it is a good playing instrument that needs a little tweak here and there, well it is perfect practice material for you to work with. You can take your time and try stuff out with it and not feel bad if you phuck something up. And you can teach yourself how to dial a guitar in to what you want. It takes about 10 seconds with some 120 grit sandpaper to remove any kind of brand name from a headstock, and then what you have is essentially what Leo has been churning out for 50 some odd years. Make up your own logo for the headstock and you are good to go. That way too when you are done with the Warmoth and rebuilding this one you'll have two awesome guitars.
I have refinished a couple of MIM and MIJ fenders. Those are my favorite projects, and the guys that I did them for are pretty happy with how they turned out. Although one guy did ask me to paint his MIJ plywood strat with gray automotive primer, he wanted it to look like duct tape. So I did, and he promptly covered it with duct tape anyway. I spent forever sanding that body too it kinda pissed me off, but it does look cool with the duct tape on it!!! He literally throws it into the back seat of his car when he goes gigging, and once and a while he says he'll drop it just for the hell of it. I told him how much time I spent on it and I don't like hearing about abusing it, but it is his and he did pay me so I really have no say in the matter
I have an SX bass I got on Ebay a while ago from Rondo Music in New Jersey. This bass was a total piece of crap from day one.... the pots didn't work and it had about an inch of polyester on it and some sort of paper pseudo flame maple applique on the top of it. Well to make a long story short my wife bought me a new sander for christmas and I was bored one day waiting for my Warmoth order, so I took the bass apart and started sanding. I found some really nice poplar under the poly and figured I'd stain it and call it a day. I did some other stuff to it too like recess the bridge slightly so the basplate of the bridge was flush with the top of the body and ran the strings down through the body. I still need ferrules for the back but the strings aren't pulling through the wood yet so I'm not worried. I also made some wooden pickup covers for the ultra cheap jap pu's and did a little rewire, no volume, just a treble bleed setup to roll the treble off. I originally put in a TRS effects loop in it, but I never use effects with the bass, so I omitted that and just added a second output so I can use two amps or an amp and a PA board. I added on off switches for the PU's and I can honestly say that it plays like butter now. I had some fret buzz issues, but I went nuts with a file on the third fret and now I don't have any buzz, but I have an almost non functional 3rd fret I took too much off, but I really don't care. I only paid $120 for the bass to begin with (actually I didn't pay anything for the bass I put it on a Credit card that I ended up writing off when I filed for bankruptcy a few years ago) But my point to that is I bought a crappy bass that wasn't really playable when I took it out of the box, but after some massaging, I made it nice and playable.