[: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 [...]

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 [...]

Some of the searches bringing people to this site seem to be about how to do a sunburst, or any other “burst” (cherry burst etc) effect on a guitar – probably due to my initial ramblings on this subject. I decided not to go with this idea but in case it helps you, please see [...]

The neck in this kit is a standard maple neck with rosewood fretboard (probably the most common combination for ’standard’ guitars) and although I had given a bit of thought to the headstock design I hadn’t really considered doing it anything other than ‘natural’ colour with lacquer. I’m not really a big fan of the [...]