It is fast for sure, going to let it acclimate for a week or so and do any necessary tweaks.That turned out FANTASTIC. The push-pull for PU selection is a neat trick to keep it looking super clean. It just looks fast!
Looks great!This build was inspired by @Burgs he was playing a yellow Tele very similar to this in one of his preset videos.
Now.. this was a giant step for me being a humbucker player for 40 years!
Warmoth body & neck. @Andy Eagle gave some crucial build tips that worked perfect!
I finished the body with 10 very light coats, applied by hand, of polyurethane.
A few light coats of Tru-Oil on the neck. I love this thing!!!
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That finish is awesome!Great guitar!
Nice - transparent Seafoam green?Built this in 2016. Guitar Build UK one piece swamp ash body I modified all the cutaways and contours on. Mighty Mite neck I rolled the fingerboard on with a 9.5" to 12" compund radius fingerboard and fitted with counter sunk machine bolts. Bare Knuckle Irish Tour pickups with seven position push pull volume. LSR roller nut, Sperzel locking machines and a Gotoh Wilkinson VSV400P trem with steel block.
The finish look really nice, is it hard. You can spray outside on a warm still summer day and the nitro lacquers that you can get is rattle cans are pretty good these days.It's transparent surf green. Was from a company called Wudtone here in the UK. It's a hand rubbed oil of some kind with a surf green pigment mixed with a touch of white and some clear grain filler applied and sanded flat before wiping the colour on. If I remember it was about 6 coats then buffed. It's got like a semi gloss like patina I think it the word to it, due to the type of finish used it never gets near the gloss of a sprayed finish, but I didn't have the space etc to do a spray finish.
If I were to do another I'd set up some kind of area to spray next time, as to me the finish was always a compromise.
No, it's pretty much like a slightly thicker finish than say the hand rubbed urethane on something like Charvel Govan signature. I made it in Autumn UK so weather is pretty crap then, especially for spraying outside that time of year here. Also lived in an apartment so didn't have a garden or similar to spray sadly.The finish look really nice, is it hard. You can spray outside on a warm still summer day and the nitro lacquers that you can get is rattle cans are pretty good these days.
I’m very close to ordering one of these for my MIM Strat. How’s it working out for you? Do you prefer the narrow spacing?I put a Callaham V/N bridge on it
I’m very close to ordering one of these for my MIM Strat. How’s it working out for you? Do you prefer the narrow spacing?
Fralin Split blade in the bridge! Great pickups, I have the High Output Tele and it sounds extremely close to a CS Nocaster in another tele.This was my first partscaster build. Neck is from Warmoth and body is from MJT. You may notice the hardest part ended up being the string tree for some reason.
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