Travel Electric (Warmoth)

[rgand]

Done right, good modern glues will hold like nothing else. You shouldn't have any problems with it holding.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Thanks for talking me back from the ledge!!  Put in a couple marathon sessions last night and today and got it all together.  So far the head repair has held for 5 hours.

I did pop the lacquer at the tuners and bridge .  I decided to go ahead and get it together and enjoy it for a while and then I'll take it back apart and refinish the body.  I LOVE how it looks and feels!  Close my eyes and I'd have no idea i wasn't playing my Tele :glasses9:.  Only thing I have left to do is connect the pickups and input jack, do a setup, and then I'll be rockin.  Here's a few pics I just took:

So stoked it's finally together after 7 years!

 

[rgand]

It came out great! Your headstock repair doesn't show in the pics. I'd guess it looks good close up, as well. Well done.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

The repair's invisible. I can't see it and I know exactly where it is. Clean break, two pieces with nothing missing. After I glued it I sanded it again to get the little bit of glue off and it was perfect.

Thanks for talking me off the edge guys!!!!

 

[rgand]

:icon_thumright:

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Here's my original photoshop mockup from back on page 3 side by side with the final guitar.  I did that in 2013 and hadn't landed on a headstock design I liked yet and changed the layout (and number) of the controls but other than that I nailed it!  :guitarplayer2:

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

I just noticed in the pic of the body and part of the neck that the controls are reflected in the lacquer :glasses9:.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Got the wiring done today and spent a couple hours noodling around on it.  Have to do a full setup now. 

I also think I'm going to shim the neck so I can raise the bridge and get a little more clearance from the pickup rings to the strings.  Very pleased with everything so far!

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Put a post in the Misc guitar section with lots of pictures and details: https://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=32159.0