korge

I don't know that I'd agree. ← --> BTW, im still surprised about this thread still being open, we should delete the first 3 posts and rename this thread to something more appropriate... Dead Rock bands that still live"???

Umm.. seems someone plays better than they build...

not bad.. so lemme get it strait... so you just bought a kit like assortment and are now putting it together with a paintjob? if so, kan you kinda explain what your doing, b/c tonite im goin to lowes to pick up some of those dyes mentioned in the tutorials(still dont understand). So ill kinda follow along with you. ~Korge <--- (I love this emote)

I have to agree, i dont come to this site to see other people try to advertise there website and the "crap" they try... TRY.. to sell... if he wants, he needs to post this in the auction part of this forum... btw, who would buy that guitar? i mean, if someone didnt know who Yngie.. or w/e his name was (me) then they would just think it was a guitar strait from the dumpster...

I know, i thought he meant a 1/4" piece... that still would be pretty thick if he was just gonna glue it to the face of the body...

Umm, im a n00b so ill try to answer your question, im sure someone else might answer it better tho.. 1. First off, you need to purchase some chemical that will remove the paint... I used an all purpose stripper for stains, varnishes and paint. I got it for like 20 or 30 bucks at walmart. Once you poor this gooey liquid on the guitar, let it sit for a while , i waited about 2 hours. fter that time, if you feel the stripper sat long enuf, get a scraper and begin scraping the paint off. Since you said black, im guessing that this is a plain painted body,. Good, because thats what im trying to explain. I never worked with stains so im not gonna promise anything if you actually mean a transparent black... anyways, after you scrap off the paint, it should come off like a pastey jello.. it should be really simple to take off.. if it isnt, let the chemicals sit longer. after you feel the basic color is off youve completed the first step... 2. now you need to get some wood wash. Its basically a chemical that cleans off the chemicals in the prior step.. This will help prevent paint dissolving later on.. Once you poor it on the wood and is wiped down good, you can sand the body and get started on the new paint coolor. Since youre looking into buying a complete new Veneer, youll need to measure the body to see hom much you plan to saw off the top. since your trying to accomplish so much, you might just be better off buying a Soloist body from Warmoth.. especially since you plan on decking out some money on a 5A quilt top. Good Luck.. ~korge EDIT- o yea, for those stains like those sunburst, youll need to get an airbrush to spray an Alchohol based stain around the edge. this may cost some money for a good airbrush... but if you want a basic stain, just get some normal water based for the center color, then get the airbrush and spray the second color around the edge.. just my .02 but someone will definitly explain this better..

Not that i can find.. (i love those keywords) I only saw Brians Irish Ibanez,,, Props to him.. Well i guess i was inspired by warmoth... about a year ago they had a closeout and clearance and there was 1 LP body and it was sideways checkers made of as it looked, maple and walnut... it looked great but i would rather do it for a tele, make smaller checkers(1", the one warmoth had, had about 2" checkers) and ofcourse, make them level rather than sideways. So this is a (?) to those hardcore carpenters.... So.. this is posible? it wont crumble or break? i mean, i dont want to put the checkerd top on the tele body and have the whole thing fall apart into 37 sqaures on the floor... ... Oh yes, checkered mania... now i need to buy that checkered geetar case and strap from SkaSkaMania.com... lol ~Korge

Yea, thats bout the same way i did it with the 1" tape... i had 1" wide tape and id make lines on where to cut the tape.. i guess your process is someone the same... but yea, the more i think bout it, the better it sounds.. but this brings up another question... what stain would be best? color or just plain? i mean. i dont want it to look plain.. if only their was a color that stained good on walnut... any ideas? In the mean time Im gonna go to lowes or Home depot this weekend... get some small pieces of hoppy wood and practice Ootens idea....

Only if it is connected to their oxygen supply... i liked that exploror that was in that Cheap Trick image... only i think it would be better if the sqaures were larger... cuz from adistance it looks like a blac/white blur.. hence i see grey... Btw, i was thinkin bout an idea... what do you think of getting some walnut wood and maple and cutting them in to 1x1 spqaures and gluing to gether to make my own top... a checkered alternative to a quilt top.. what do you think? i was hoping to try something like this so can someone give me an idea if this is possible? Pce ~korge

Umm.. can someone explain the difference and which is the beeter one.. if i buy some, i want to know that im in good hands when it comes to guitars... any comments on whats the difference and which is more preferable? ~Korge (n00b)

Yea... you were... Official... GregP was the first to mention it.... I cant seem to find my original post... odd... i think i reported it to get moved to here but now i cant find it.... lol... my bad but seems youll have to live with it.. im a n00b...

umm.. so does this mean those bodies are a waste of a dollar? looks good if those are legit.... heck, id buy it and get filler and patch up the spaces... just use paint rather than a stain....

Thnx.. i love this guitar too.... so much... i thought it had the factory look finish because i would spray a laquer coat, wet sand it, and did it over.. idd this bout 4 times... it turned out purfect.... Cheap Trick.. is that a band? im guessing yes.. they any good.. cuz if theyre not, then you guys just dissed me... Well for this paint job... well... it was fun.. now i want to do something new... perhaps a different tele.... ill have a collection of crazy teles!.... now i just need to study up and learn some tips from some of you pro guitar builders.... nice site btw! ~korge

Hey, i repainted my tele and removed the pickguard... tell me what you think... ---------------------------------- http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/1.jpg First i started with a basic Tele Squire... My first guitar.. The pickgaurd was painted by me.(blink 182) http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/2.jpg Well after consideration, i got tired of playing the hillbilly Tele and used MS paint to come up with a reasonable design... and i loved it! http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/3.jpg First i removed basic parts.... http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/7.jpg http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/8.jpg http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/9.jpg From there i stripped the paint and sanded the body... then primed it for the main coats... http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/10.jpg Thats Me!..... Well to do the checkers i used 1x1" tape pieces... about 50 or so and placed the over the body... http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/11.jpg Since i was too lazy to redo the whole taped design over again, i just made up some burst style on the back http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/12.jpg Reconstruction! http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/13.jpg Now... for what i wanted to do all along... http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/14.jpg Final Product http://www.geocities.com/korgerecords/15.jpg ~Korge

umm looks fine... what was wrong with the other atempt.. link to pics?

nice but i definitel would not buy it... im not surprsed any one would try to auction it off,,, it would give you cramps trying to play it not to mention it does look a bit odd.... id keep the 1000 dollars and buy a real guitar...

I look at a site showing how a guy does it and it looked great, but i didnt understand what he was doing... he taped some abalone(?) to the sides and glued something, umm could someone clear this up for me b/c this is sometihng i want to try on a later project... ~Korge

fixed my sig, and yes... i did play with my self.... uhh... chess, that is...

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

sure.. i guess... umm... lemme start then..., jsut let me get back to you on that, gotta get my pics all together...

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

Awesome work and design, gives me some inspiration to start something.... But that leaves me with a couple of questions.... first, how are you gonna fit all your wires and such in side that guitar without chopping it all up? i mean, for the switches, you need to... Also, for the fretboard, where is your long rod thingy that is always a neccesity?.. just wonderin, but nice so far.... Now a question i just need answered... what were the dimensions of each piece o wood that made up the center fretboard area?were they just strait pieces glued together or slightlyy angled pieces? i cant tell from the images...