Georg_Figel Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 Hello Everyone, it was time to make my dream Jaguar a reality. Some specs: Warmoth roasted swamp ash body and a roasted maple neck A blue perloid pickguard. Fender Locking Tuners And otherwise, it's the hardware that Warmoth is selling. The tremolo they have is supposedly made by Gotoh. Bareknuckle Mother's Milk single coils Seymour Duncan SH-12 Custom Custom Humbucker I wanted to paint the body orange, but since the Roasted Ash has a really nice wood grain, I added a fake f-hole in the front and a hexagon pattern on the back to show off the wood grain. Some pictures: At the beginning Testing the hexagon pattern: Masking: Hexagon back: My grain filling has room for improvement: Modifying the control plate to fit a 5 way switch: I've filled the unneeded holes with blue epoxy (and with blue backing paper glued to the back) Mistakes so far: I could have done the grain filling a lot better. But there's always a next time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 Welcome! I'm looking forward to seeing where this is going. You're showing some pretty innovative ideas so far. SR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georg_Figel Posted February 16, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2021 (edited) ^^thank you Some more progress: Got this decal and I cut out just the outline To apply it like this: Decal on the headstock (my name is "Georg" and it's a Jaguar guitar.... lame joke ) This is how I fixed the Pickguard (I couldn't find one for HSS, so I modified a HH pickguard). Once it's all put together, with strings etc. it won't be that noticable. I've used a real orange to decide on the paint (at the front is a paper I've sprayed the orange on, as a test): Edited February 16, 2021 by Georg_Figel problem with image Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted February 16, 2021 Report Share Posted February 16, 2021 I like the orange color match. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistermikev Posted February 16, 2021 Report Share Posted February 16, 2021 nice colors (agreed) the fretboard, the blue, the orange... nice work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georg_Figel Posted February 17, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2021 ^^thank you And here she is: I've also put together a video of the whole process, with a sound demo and also an overproduced song at the end:https://youtu.be/lEKFaflA2CQ Editing this video actually took longer than putting together the guitar xD I've made all kinds of mistakes with the paintjob... but that gives it the homemade appeal Sound and playability is top notch though. The roasted maple neck has 2 thin layers of Tru Oil, it feels really amazing. Roasted maple with a super thin finish might be the nicest feeling neck. Some people leave them completely unfinished, but the tru oil makes the color of the wood much more intense. I'm very happy. Next I'll try if a roller bridge is an improvement or not. Some more pictures: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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