The 'Hog - Green mahogany Tele with 2x P90's

[bagman67]

Aloha, boys and girls:


At long last, The 'Hog is complete.  This is a mahogany body from mattswoodworking-2008 on eBay.  The body is very nice, but had some issues with getting the neck to fit correctly. 


It's coupled to a Warmoth canary standard-thin neck with an ebony board and MOP dots.  Fretted with stainless 6115s.


Body is loaded with TroubledTreble's Roadhouse True Blue P90's, which are delicious, thank you very much.  Nickel hardware, including some very attractive locking Grovers anchoring the strings at the  north end.  Bridge is a stainless Hipshot flat-top hardtail bridge.


Stain was Mixol Grass Green in a vehicle of 2/3 lacquer reducer to 1/3 lacquer retarder; clearcoat is Deft rattlecan. Grainfilled with neutral Timbermate tinted with black Mixol.


The finish is a g0ddamned mess, for which I can blame no one but myself, but it was a tremendous learning experience.  Lots of burnthroughs and blemishes, but it's definitely MY guitar. 


Final setup was done by Keith Holland's Guitar Hospital in Los Gatos, CA, and it plays like a dream.

 

[bagman67]

...and I've cleaned the lens on my phone camera since I shot these earlier today. 

 

[bagman67]

...and a bitchen neckplate by DangerousR6, DUH!

 

[Steve_Karl]

Very nice!
And very good pics for a cell phone.

 

[Cagey]

Good job! How are you liking that Canary?

 

[bagman67]

It's awfully smooth.  I have to say I prefer the feel of the wenge neck meat better, but that's like saying you prefer caviar to pate.  Both are rarefied goodnesses.  I'm actually becoming very much more conscious of my fretting technique lately, and I find that I'm hardly ever making contact with the fingerboard wood - and I blame it in part on these hard, slick stainless frets.

 

[Death by Uberschall]

I like the green.  ccasion14:

 

[rapfohl09]

Beautiful!!! I am really liking that green.

 

[Just Another Smith]

It looks great.  That guitar just looks mean (and I mean that in a good way).

 

[mbesp]

That is one cool fiddle. Digging that color for sure

 

[swarfrat]

...and a bitchen neckplate by DangerousR6, DUH!

Hah. That neckplate reminds me. In our area there's a farm, family name Bacon. They have a sign by the road, "Bacon Farm est.1825'  On the sign is a picture of a cow. Every time I see it I think... you've been farming for almost 200 years and you still don't know where bacon comes from?

Sweet build, I don't recall seeing this one.

 

[bagman67]

Thanks, man.  It's looking pretty chewed up nowadays - it's the one I leave out so I can always grab a guitar.  My toddler has literally taken after it with a wooden hammer, and the finish was kinda dodgy to begin with, it being my first complete job.  Now it's looking extremely, er, well loved.  Which it is - my favorite axe to play, no doubt.

 

[FZMello]

Very nice. I recently built my son a thinline tele with green alder back, and "swamp-gas" face (lemon yellow with green mist around edges on flamed maple) so I had to look and see how your green turned out on mahogany. Liking the nice clean route around the P-90's.