Another Strat project completed

RickyB · Post by **RickyB** » Thu May 10, 2012 8:50 am

Nearly 3 months in the making, but it is now complete and it looks great, sounds great, and plays great, took me a couple of hours to set it up perfect, but worth every minute, to get it playing the way i like it.
I bought everything off eBay, mostly from a company in Hong Kong, apart from bridge, tuners, knobs and pots, which i found in America. I spent as little as i could, to find out if i could build a halfway decent guitar for as little money as possible. It's all turned out better than i hoped. Body was sprayed with a white undercoat, then silver, and then a metallic blue, and finished with a glass lacquer. That is what took all the time, the painting..... Anyways here are some pix for your perusal.

jamesd74 · Post by **jamesd74** » Fri May 11, 2012 10:53 pm

Looks sh@t hot mate, nice paint job, what paint did you use nitro????

RickyB · Post by **RickyB** » Sat May 12, 2012 1:05 pm

I have used enamel on my last 2 projects.

jamesd74 · Post by **jamesd74** » Sat May 12, 2012 11:46 pm

Does it go hard ok....The reason is I have painted a strat enamel and I have struggled to get the paint to harden

RickyB · Post by **RickyB** » Sun May 13, 2012 9:07 am

Yeah it takes forever to harden, which is why i am gonna either go with acrylic, or nitro for my 12 string strat project. You can reckon on about 3 months for enamel to really harden off to a solid finish.

Henrymark · Post by **Henrymark** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:49 am

Great work. You created beautiful musical instrument. I like it very much.

jamesd74 · Post by **jamesd74** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:22 am

Ricky...ant news on the 12 string?????

RickyB · Post by **RickyB** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:50 pm

jamesd74 wrote:Ricky...ant news on the 12 string?????

Yup the body is shite. It has a couple of splits in the body, so i have counter sunk a couple of screws in it and filled the holes. I have also filled in the trem routes as i want to use a hard tail bridge. all that is done and everything is ready for an undercoat. it has taken a month to sort the body, but now i can press on. The neck seems good, and now all the gold hardware is assembled, it is just a matter of painting and assembly. Should be finished by August or there abouts.

jamesd74 · Post by **jamesd74** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:20 pm

Any Pics????

RickyB · Post by **RickyB** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:23 am

Heres a couple of pix taken before i finished filling in the trem routing.

jamesd74 · Post by **jamesd74** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:00 am

Looks like you have some nice skills.

That trem route fill looks perfect.

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