korge Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 (edited) http://images.misupply.com/products/origin...er/031_0202.jpg Basically i started with my standard tele... only it was blue.. i feel shameful, i took no pics of the 'before' guitar... wat do you think, it was just a simple paint job but my first progect, took me boout a week and half Edited April 10, 2005 by korge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sepultura999 Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 (edited) looks very nice. My girlfriend has a thing for black and white checkerboards. Are you planning on discussing how to do a checkerboard finish, step by step and all? -Jamie Edited April 9, 2005 by sepultura999 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korge Posted April 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 sure.. i guess... umm... lemme start then..., jsut let me get back to you on that, gotta get my pics all together... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregP Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Why do I suddenly feel like listening to either Ska or Cheap Trick? Great work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korge Posted April 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 (edited) oki, thnx for the comments... all i know for sure is that this design looks a whole lot better than the plain blue it had... oki, first i started with a basic Squier Tele, my first guitar eva.... i got it when i was 12, now im 15 and i believe that my gutar needed to live up to my style... I also at the time had a Ibanez RG 320FM which was a grey flame top so maybe that may hint off my 'style'. http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/1.jpg For anyone who knows blink 182, they would recognize the pick guard... yes i did paint it.... http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/2.jpg Well after a while of playing a hillbilly lookin tele, i decided a change was needed so using MS Paint i designed a layout i liked... http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/3.jpg I looked at it and fell in love, (Im a fan of checkers ... shoe laces,belt, book bag) so i began on my journey of "The Guitar thing that was so amazing!" So i began dismantling the ugly 170 dollar guitar... http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/4.jpg http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/5.jpg http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/6.jpg http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/7.jpg http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/8.jpg Now with all that out of the way, i marked the wires of course to remember which lined up to which humbucker... http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/9.jpg Now i needed to clean up the guitar... I first used some paint stripper.... this only took off the blue coat to reveal a Red paint which was hard as rock and didnt even come off... My father informed me it was a plastic like paint so i couldnt get that off... after sanding and sanding, i primed it with a satin white... (EDIT - And i used elmers wall filler to fill in the screw holes from the stupid pick guard..) http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/10.jpg After thAT i cut about 40 - 50 (felt like a hundred) 1x1" pieces of tape and carefully placed it over the white base paint... from there when it was all layed out, i sprayed about 3 coats of black on. After it dried, i used a pen knife and peeled away the tape.. http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/11.jpg Since i was lazy, i just flipped the guitar over and sprayed almost a sunburst style on it, and sprayed about 5 gloss coats.... http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/12.jpg Now all i had to do was put the wires back through and solder them... this was probly the hardest part... the wires came up to short at the humbuckers so i had to pull em as far as they could go...this put some major strain on my hands.. http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/13.jpg Now that i was finished, it was time to use my guitar for wat guitars were made to do.... http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/14.jpg The Finished product.... http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/15.jpg It was great fun and i plan to look around this site to see some more great ideas... my next progect, i want to build a guitar from wood....something a little more chalenging... ~Korge Edited April 10, 2005 by korge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marzocchi705 Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Nice tele! I think it looks really good, and like in your pic if you cant be botherd playing it you can play Chess on it Also, while im here your only aloud text sigs, no picture Rules, just so you dont get in trouble with the mods or admin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korge Posted April 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 fixed my sig, and yes... i did play with my self.... uhh... chess, that is... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sepultura999 Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Amazing job. Good idea about the chess . Good idea about the burst on the back. I totally think that's better then just a black or white, or checker. It adds a whole new thing. -Jamie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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