Miss Munckee Caster

munckee

So Miss munckee is 15 and has been playing guitar again since getting the bug last summer,  (the Water Rats massive may remember her singing there last year) I bought her a washburn acoustic last summer which is great.  She has got into playing electric (nirvana phase) and wanted her own electric -  particularly a cheap one so she can take it to school without worrying about anything happening to an expensive guitar.

She decided she wanted a jazzmaster, we tried a squier vm in a shop but she felt it cost too much to take to school (that rabbit hole has resulted in me buying a J Mascis jassmaster from @Rich31k ;;;!) then I borrowed a tele from a mate and she really liked it.

@lysander put up a heavily modded encore tele that he had shimmed, refretted, rewired, put in a strat neck pickup and new bridge pickup,  changed the bridge and saddles on and set up and was selling for the ridiculously low price of £30.  Only downside was it was sunburst which is her least favourite finish on electrics.  I drove at stupid o clock one sunday morning into London to pick it up (150 mile round trip), just before lockdown luckily and put it away as an easter present for Miss Munckee.  She decided on lilac so I have refinished in bog standard lilac spray paint and put a satin clear coat on so it wasn't too shiny - and voila the Miss Munckee Lilacaster:

https://i.imgur.com/MABEDcZ.jpg

soma1975

Nice work. 

munckee

soma1975 said:

Nice work. 

Cheers mate this was the guitar you were kindly going to collect for me when it didn't look like I would have time to get to London!

JezWynd

 I borrowed a tele from a mate and she really liked it

She obviously has excellent taste.

munckee

JezWynd said:

 I borrowed a tele from a mate and she really liked it

She obviously has excellent taste.

No she hates strats!

lovestrat74

Lucky Lucy  

Snags

Seqmunckee said:

JezWynd said:

 I borrowed a tele from a mate and she really liked it

She obviously has excellent taste.

No she hates strats!

Like the man said, excellent taste.

Now all she has to do is graduate from single coils to humbuckers and she'll be an adult.

Nitefly

Excellent colour!

Fuengi

That looks great, I bet she's delighted.

You must have set of early to collect it because you text me at breakfast time on your way back! Didn't realise you have been to London. 

munckee

Fuengi said:

That looks great, I bet she's delighted.

You must have set of early to collect it because you text me at breakfast time on your way back! Didn't realise you have been to London. 

I left at 6am I think to avoid London traffic. 

How is the Tele tree coming along

lysander

@munckee that looks great ! Makes me happy to see the guitar have a second life
Did you leave the burst under the paint in case she gets into relicing later on ?   
I hope she enjoys it !

Fuengi

munckee said:

Fuengi said:

That looks great, I bet she's delighted.

You must have set of early to collect it because you text me at breakfast time on your way back! Didn't realise you have been to London. 

I left at 6am I think to avoid London traffic. 

How is the Tele tree coming along

Still only bearing the single fruit! Waiting on @rexter to work his magic for the 2nd. 

skippy76

Turned out really well mate  

sgosden

Amazing how much even a slightly better set up guitar is to learn on at first. 

In school, I'd have a go on my mates squier strat at every opportunity as it was so much better to play. Mine was a "venom" from one of those extra cheap starter kits 

munckee

sgosden said:

Amazing how much even a slightly better set up guitar is to learn on at first. 

In school, I'd have a go on my mates squier strat at every opportunity as it was so much better to play. Mine was a "venom" from one of those extra cheap starter kits 

@lysander has done a terrific job with this. I bought it following reading his thread about the lengths he went to improving it  Makes me smile every time I play it, which is not very often as miss Munckee is quite possessive about it!

Milk

It looks like a a nice guitar for unbelievibly cheap. id consider that colour for myself, what paint was used ?

munckee

@milk I bought this stuff from ebay

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Montana-Gold-Acrylic-Spray-Paint-Can-400-ml-All-Shades-Half-Price-RRP-8-99/143407536425?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&var=442342942150&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

I just painted over the existing sunburst, sanded with 400 paper then 3 coats of paint then several coats of satin clear coat.  To finish it I sanded again with 400, then 1200, then tcut and finally car polish.