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Topic: Another Strat project completed

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.


http://s16.postimage.org/n3mgdwe0x/523046_10151563692295393_757770392_24270031_653870231_n.jpg

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http://s15.postimage.org/quwj71l3r/528982_10151661594960393_757770392_24490558_936190128_n.jpg

http://s13.postimage.org/7pk367zhv/485699_10151722103870393_757770392_24560134_1158851633_n.jpg

http://s18.postimage.org/vjcj2ccx1/574921_10151722110885393_757770392_24560169_573013115_n.jpg


http://s13.postimage.org/428xdwgoj/149386_10151722112350393_757770392_24560171_1238642743_n.jpg

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2 Reply by jamesd74 (edited by jamesd74 11-05-12 22:54:43)

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Re: Another Strat project completed

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

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Re: Another Strat project completed

I have used enamel on my last 2 projects.

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4 Reply by jamesd74 (edited by jamesd74 12-05-12 23:46:37)

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Re: Another Strat project completed

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

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Re: Another Strat project completed

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.

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Re: Another Strat project completed

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

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Re: Another Strat project completed

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

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Re: Another Strat project completed

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.

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Re: Another Strat project completed

Any Pics????

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Re: Another Strat project completed

Heres a couple of pix taken before i finished filling in the trem routing.
http://s15.postimage.org/3ztx7z9pz/SDC11307.jpg



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Re: Another Strat project completed

Looks like you have some nice skills.

That trem route fill looks perfect.

keep us updated...

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