It is finished except for a few tweaks here and there. I also will probably change the knobs because they look too dark to me now. I just used them because I had them handy. They do go up to 11 though.
Specs:
Mahogany/Flame Maple hardtail showcase body (thank you, sale!)
Magenta burst finish, masked binding
Gotoh vintage style hardtail bridge
Vintage pearl pickguard
Roadhouse Pickups - many thanks to TroubledTreble for making these Special/Fatboy hybrids for me, they are amazing!
Gibson 50's style wiring
PlanetWaves gold jack
Canary conversion scale neck, standard thin
Stainless steel 6105 frets
Earvana installed white corian compensated nut
Gotoh SG38s
Barrel style string trees
I love this guitar. Even with the slight tweaks here and there I will eventually have to do, I can tell this is going to seriously compete with my Les Paul to be my go-to axe on a day to day basis.
I'll try to get some better pictures up soon. It's kind of hard to photograph because of the contrast between the body and the pickguard. The pickguard just reflects a lot and makes the pictures fuzzy. Later today I might be able to get my husband to take some pics, as he is a better photographer than I.
As I just said in my blue LP thread that I also updated -
I recently inherited a digital SLR - a Canon Rebel XTi. It's a few years old, but still by far the nicest camera I've ever had. Thanks to the photography tips in Freekmagnet's surf green Jazz bass thread http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=21803.msg322429#msg322429(check it out if you haven't seen it, it's good... it's real good - both the tips/photography and the gorgeous classic style bass), I've been able to put it to good use taking decent pictures of my builds.
So here are some new Strat pics in which you can really see the colors - these are easily the best pics ever taken of this guitar. For some reason it's really hard to get the correct color to come through in pictures, but I think you can see it pretty accurately in these. It is kind of hard to get the white to not be so bright though. My friend has offered to let me use her lighting equipment, so I think I'm going to try that next.
Specs:
Mahogany/Flame Maple hardtail showcase body (thank you, sale!)
Magenta burst finish, masked binding
Gotoh vintage style hardtail bridge
Vintage pearl pickguard
Roadhouse Pickups - many thanks to TroubledTreble for making these Special/Fatboy hybrids for me, they are amazing!
Gibson 50's style wiring
PlanetWaves gold jack
Canary conversion scale neck, standard thin
Stainless steel 6105 frets
Earvana installed white corian compensated nut
Gotoh SG38s
Barrel style string trees
I love this guitar. Even with the slight tweaks here and there I will eventually have to do, I can tell this is going to seriously compete with my Les Paul to be my go-to axe on a day to day basis.
I'll try to get some better pictures up soon. It's kind of hard to photograph because of the contrast between the body and the pickguard. The pickguard just reflects a lot and makes the pictures fuzzy. Later today I might be able to get my husband to take some pics, as he is a better photographer than I.
As I just said in my blue LP thread that I also updated -
I recently inherited a digital SLR - a Canon Rebel XTi. It's a few years old, but still by far the nicest camera I've ever had. Thanks to the photography tips in Freekmagnet's surf green Jazz bass thread http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=21803.msg322429#msg322429(check it out if you haven't seen it, it's good... it's real good - both the tips/photography and the gorgeous classic style bass), I've been able to put it to good use taking decent pictures of my builds.
So here are some new Strat pics in which you can really see the colors - these are easily the best pics ever taken of this guitar. For some reason it's really hard to get the correct color to come through in pictures, but I think you can see it pretty accurately in these. It is kind of hard to get the white to not be so bright though. My friend has offered to let me use her lighting equipment, so I think I'm going to try that next.
