Hello,
I've been following this website for a long time, back when it used to be just some yellow text on a black background tbh and I've finally got my act together enough to actually finish a project worth showing.
So about 3 years ago I bought an EVH type guitar from BYOguitar.com and finished it fairly quickly, learning about dyes, and nitro and I must admit, at the time, i was fairly proud of it,even though the f***ing thing never stayed in tune,
and here it was finished (well finished enough...)
Unfortunately, the fact that the floyd rose on this guitar, as with ALL hardware on kit guitars hampered things a bit, it never stayed in tune and intonation was always just off enough to piss me off, so I stuck it in a case and hid it away until April this year....
Now, I never really thought i'd ever post this on these forums so I neglected to take photos until things started to go right, so no pics, but ill give a summary of what I decided to do and then actually did, bear in mind this was on my mind for at least a couple of months getting an image of what i wanted it to look like in my head.
So the plan.
Remove the crappy binding
remove nitro
Remove the crappy veneer
fill in the mounting post holes for the floyd and replace with a new tremolo
carve the top - by hand
add a new veneer to the guitar
do a sunburst and laquer with poly
so as everyone loves photos here is the point i started taking them.
just after i carved the top and added the new veneer - this was a bitch of a job, used a tutorial from this site and it worked, maybe with more practice i wouldnt have to use so much filler...
as you can see if you look closely, this was after about a week after adding the veneer and letting the glue settle and cure, it shifted a bit, not massive amounts but meh also this is the first time i've ever done anything with elm veneer.
here it is after the headstock veneer was applied and carved.
Just to be safe, my next post will contain more photos