Your finished projects

paulnb57

@GSPBASSES all mahogany Tele finished in Crimson Red stain and Finishing oil, JB pickup, locking pegs



And a well modded Steinberger Spirit headless
Thrust bearings on the tuners, with longer screws
Rewired with a proper (not a PCB switch) to HH and single volume, where the tone was ( kept hitting the volume pot in its original position
Pickups are Iron Gear Dirty Torque at the bridge and a Blues Engine at the neck (I wanted to, and got close to a JB and Jazz)
Drilled right through the body to rear mount a middle SC when I find one, replacing the original direct mount wood screws made of cheese
Replaced the easily bendable bridge posts.
Posca decoration under satin lacquer…

lovestrat74

Another little Tele build..

SteveF

Very nice! How did you do the checking?

SteveF

My second scratch build.  Thread is here: Build No 2

lovestrat74

SteveF said:

Very nice! How did you do the checking?

I cant take the credit for that Steve. The body was expertly finished by @lamf68 ;

SteveF

Well it looks great either way!

sev112

JLordOxygen said:

This is a guitar I made from scratch a few months ago, the maple / sapele neck has a nice scarf joint for the reversed 12deg angled headstock. It has a pair of P90s. I'm very pleased with it. 

 

Looks great

what are the two screws on the top for in the clamping pic ?

LordOxygen

sev112 said:

JLordOxygen said:

This is a guitar I made from scratch a few months ago, the maple / sapele neck has a nice scarf joint for the reversed 12deg angled headstock. It has a pair of P90s. I'm very pleased with it. 

Looks great

what are the two screws on the top for in the clamping pic ?

to help with clamping / gluing the top to the center block, located in the pickup routes. 

Fez

Having sold my Jet City head I still had the 2x12 Harley Benton which wasn't selling loaded or unloaded, I wanted to keep the V30's anyway. It crossed my mind to cut it in half but I rejected the idea as too difficult. So one speaker went in my home built snakeskin tolexed cab and I was going to get an unloaded HB cab for the other V30 and tip the 2x12 cab after harvesting any useful parts like the jack plate. The roadies have grown up and left home the Mrs had a knee replacement and I can't lift the loaded 2x12 myself. Anyway HB were out of the unloaded cabs so could the cab be made into one x 12 hmm? The my good lady said why don't you cut it in half, so I marked it out cut through the 18mm ply and managed not to ruin the tolex. I cut a hole for the jack plate put a piece of 12mm ply on the base painted that black and the rear where the tolex came off. The Mrs has an upholstery staple gun so she helped me do the piping on the grill. 
Turned out fine, the cab was well used anyway so it was never going to be pristine and it sounds good too.

PeteC

Heres a quick vid of a recent Bass commission 

nb: this was before the string tree was added ! 

 https://imgur.com/gallery/YFHGj7b 

Al_Nico

Hi. After some experimentation with bits and bobs in the guitar bits box I settled for these two pickups. Now I've fitted them with new screw poles and silver covers. My mates said 'it is one of the most beautiful modifications of an SD Full Shred ever undertaken', and replacing the allen head screw poles with slotted round heads, thus widening the inductance vortex at the string core, ensures the guitar not only looks better than yours, but also sounds better than yours.

PeteC

Some lovely builds here.    

Here is my recently completed faded 59 style build.  

Idigbo body
Maple cap
Rosewood board
Hot hide glue neck and fretboard glues
Celly inlays 
Binding with nibs 
CTS pots
Gotoh and Wilkinson hardware 
Tonerider Birminghams for now / Oil Citys to be fitted
Nitro finish 
2-way truss rod 
very light relicing and slightly sunken nitro finish 
hand buffed 

And , err of course….it plays like buddah!! 

BillDL

That really is a thing of beauty @PeteC.  You should have hidden the Schaller straplocks. That's likely to spark a heated debate about Grolsch washers 

wraub

Unknown maker MIJ 70s body and neck, Grover tuners, Fender Brass Works vibrato, Tonerider Classic Blues pickups, Obsidian Wire blender, Jazz Bass knobs (with the smaller tone knob in the volume spot to get it out of the way) and a Tele switch tip, brass strap buttons. It's not bad.

LessPaul

Nothing that clever about this really ~ just great fun to do! 

Bullet mustang re vamp.

Refinished in vintage white nitro ( originally Blue ) 
Refinished Neck’ amber tint nitro ( posher Squier decal applied!  )
Half tele bridge  with staggered brass saddles.
Guyker locking  vintage tuners
nu bone nut
tusq string trees
custom made one piece pickguard
vanson alnico V ( classic pro ) pickups ( cheap as chips’ but sound great! )
cts pots / orange drop cap / Switchcraft switch and jack

As I say nothing fancy at all’ at the end of the day’ it’s just a cheap old Squier!

https://i.imgur.com/vDjbVMA.jpg https://i.imgur.com/CEGrVJJ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/SdSuVgl.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/nURzv38.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/ABMKMnU.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/HFyIG6j.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/IxYhs6i.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/h4EHuto.jpeg

BillDL

That looks really smart @LessPaul.  Nice neat shielding too.  What are your thoughts about the Guyker locking tuners?

LessPaul

BillDL said:

That looks really smart @LessPaul.  Nice neat shielding too.  What are your thoughts about the Guyker locking tuners?

Thanks @BillDL    Again for the money, £25 if I rememberer rightly?  they’re great!  Very  well made’ and solid tuning, I would highly recommend them  


Edit:  Just had a look, £21.00 next day delivery off of Amazon. 

SteveRobinson

They're great if you're on a budget but don't expect Gotoh standards of manufacture. 

LessPaul

SteveRobinson said:

They're great if you're on a budget but don't expect Gotoh standards of manufacture. 

Agreed’ and budget was a key factor here. I wanted to spend as little as possible, as I wanted to keep it a ‘cheap’ guitar.
I slightly deviated with the internals, I could have gone even cheaper using alpha pots, generic jack / switch, plastic wire etc

eviljoe

So knocked up a kinda telemaster from a single piece of red wood (so light!) With a squier neck bolted on.
5 way Rotary switch including coil tap,  and a volume kill switch. Finished with purple stain sanded back for a bust effect,  and 4 coats of Rustins.
Plays very nice,  somewhere between a tele and a strat to my ears

https://i.postimg.cc/pTgc8YbG/IMG-20240902-224403.jpg 

https://i.postimg.cc/Hk2NKyXn/IMG-20241023-193934.jpg 

https://i.postimg.cc/vB1Sc2jx/IMG-20241016-202650.jpg