[:project guitar:]

I realised I hadn’t updated this in a while with the final stages of the guitar assembly so will be adding more pictures and detail on here soon. The blog unfortunately suffered a bit of an accident for a while (dodgy update) but I have recovered it now and as well as the original guitar [...]

Now that the parts mentioned in the previous post are done, we can start on the assembly of the electronic parts.
The kit comes with some of the bits pre-assembled such as all the parts on the control plate etc. For various reasons I have decided to replace these so was starting from individual parts. These [...]

I’ve now got most of the assembly done and a lot of the electronics, as I now have the final bits I needed to start on the electronics (capacitors and extra wire!)
All the parts that can be put together have been now, so we can get an idea of what it looks like overall and [...]

After about 8-9 coats total the lacquer is finally done (not least because I’ve now finished up the can and that is a pretty substantial amount!). It does have a nice sheen to the surface, I haven’t sanded/buffed it to an ultra-shiny finish as it looks better slightly matt due to the design.
I left it [...]

I’ve done about 6-7 coats of lacquer so far and still ongoing with it – it is getting harder and more glossy but still a bit more to do. (I’ve got through most of a can of the larger size of Halfords lacquer already though!) So there’s not a lot of progress to report really, [...]

The transparent pickguard arrived (quite a few days ago actually!) and is much better with the paint than the original white one they supplied. I might ebay the white one – nothing wrong with it at all, it just doesn’t really go with the paint as it would end up covering up a lot of [...]

Before starting on the lacquer I’ve taken some pictures of what the body looks like “so far” and with the neck placed on (not actually attached) to get more of an idea of what the overall thing will look like.
Here are some results:

I’m pretty pleased with the result so far, even with a lot of [...]

The white pickguard that came with the kit is OK but is just a generic white and it seems a pity to cover up about 1/3 of the area of the paint job (on the front) so I have decided on a transparent pickguard instead!
It’s from ebay and coming from the Netherlands to the UK [...]

Finally we’ve had some decent weather again and I’ve been able to finish the spray paint job on the body! After painting the darkest squares (previous post) and masking the horizontal stripes only to do half of the “medium” coloured squares – I removed the horizontal stripes, put the vertical ones back on, and did [...]

After masking stripes the other way as well (making squares) I have applied the first paint in the charcoal colour – 2 coats total (quite thin ones). The squares being painted here are the ones that are going to be the darkest colour in the final thing. The parts that have both a vertical and [...]