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Thanks man! Here's the promised ABBA-CD: https://soundcloud.com/nakedzen/la-002-rock-tone-test/s-sSrl9eJdag9

Yeah I wanted pure white finish so I ordered from a local car/specialty paint supply a custom color #FFFFFFF. Couldn't really find any ready mixed pure white nitro, and glad I did get it from them. They made it the same day and next day delivery.

Thanks,I really like how it sounds. I have record some AC/DC with this thing!

Swapped in a new 250K CTS pot that I had laying around, this one was completely dead from the start. Looking around with google seems that CTS quality control has gone down the toilet in the past 5 years. Oh well, I already have a third one in the mail, we'll see if third time's the charm or if I have to for Bourns or Alpha pots in the future.

Thanks guys! Next one will be original shape with flame maple top methinks. Already have the wood for it.

Soundclip of pointless drop-D riffs https://soundcloud.com/nakedzen/lumiaalto-002

More progress, basically done! I'll just need to go drill the switch plate holes bigger to fit CTS pots.

Yeah that was my suspicion as well, already ordered before making this thread.

Just completed my second build ever, but ran into a snag. I have a CTS 250K pot for volume, and followed this diagram. The volume atcs really weird, never had this happen before. From full on to half way down, it acts as regular volume from 10 to 0. At halfway it's volume off. Then after halfway it's back to full on, the whole way from middle to zero pos.

I've always gotten itchy from cedar dust, so I looked and found this. Just something not so talked about: Cedar and pine dust as lung cancer cause

Definitely! Sort of wanted to go very traditional with this one. Together at last! Now onto hardware.

Finally I can say I've done something on the kitchen table too. Logo added, and final coats of nitro.

First couple coats of nitro on the body, back of neck shaped and shellac added.

Headstock shaped and leveled. Fret markers installed. Filler sanded back from the body. Frets installed and left overnight clamped. Shellac'd the body again after sanding the filler. d'uh

Checking out the hardware, had to fill some dodgy routing too. Fretboard glued and left to dry, you never have enough clamps! Added a shellac bottom coat for the body one coat only. Had to fix a small gap on the fretboard glue job, so more clamping. Body pore filled.

I've wanted to have a single coil tele for a loong time, but never got around buying one. So I decided to build one. 25.5" scale, maple neck, ebony board, ash body. SD Hot tele bridge, vintage tele neck. Haven't decided on wiring yet. Satin pure white nitro body, shellac'd back of neck, white nitro headstock. Black hardware, Schaller DaVinci tuners on this one as well. Reused a body that was already drilled for humbucker routing, so there's some hole filling to be done. Neck and body routed.

Thanks guys! I had a lot of fun making this, already have the wood ready for number 3.

Oh yeah the teaser of #002

First ever build done, call it "The Locomotive". Inspired by the german locomotives DB10 "Black Swan", tried to make it look sort of industrial dirty steam machinery looking, without making it into steampunk. I've worked as a welder/mechanic in coal power plants for over a decade so that helped, both in getting it done and as inspiration. I've worked from home for the last year so I thought I'd put together a small workshop for building my own guitars finally. Got the router templates from guitarsandwoods. Neck shape: baseball bat, D-ish. Copied my ESP Horizon neck but kept it chunky. Fingerboard: ebony Frets: Sintoms bell bronze Nut: graphtech Dots: none Machine head: Schaller DaVinci Bridge: Schaller tune-o-matic Switch: 3 pos. Pickups: EMG 81 & 60 Knobs: bronze Switch cover: bronze Finish: Back of neck and body Crimson Guitars oil, headstock nitro lacquer. Weight: Kg 3.5kg Scale: 25,5"

Soundclip of some senseless metal! https://soundcloud.com/nakedzen/lumiaalto-001

Test fit the hardware, lined up the bridge and drilled the holes for it. Already up to the finishing here. Put three thin coats of Crimson Guitars penetrating oil on the body, then beeswax and carnauba wax mix polish. Three coats of oil on the back of the neck as well, and maybe 20 coats of Boston nitrocellulose lacquer on the headstock. Sanded the lacquer down to 2000 grit, then sprayed two more coats. Added the string tree to the headstock. It's done! Teaser pic of #002 in the works, pretty far into it actually, up to lacquer and headstock decal right now.

Time for frets, Sintoms bell bronze frets from Belarus. Took a bit of force to cut with my side cutters. They turned out OK, at least there are no sharp fret ends. Not the prettiest fret job ever, but works fine for a first build ever. Except! Disaster the next day, one fret end had raised out of its slot. Had to put some CA glue under the fret and clamp it down with a 10" radius block. Thankfully this fixed the problem.

Jack hole drilled! Exciting. Dyed the whole neck black, and sanded it back to get the grain black. Then dyed the neck red. Bought the pickguard from aliexpress, sanded it back to bare wood. Dyed black, then sanded back, dyed red same as the neck. Added four coats of crimson guitars penetrating oil. Lastly testing out some hardware fit, tuners look great imho.

Neck and board finally together as they should! Then I cut the headstock with the bandsaw to the correct depth (a better quality saw would've helped here to get a straight clean cut!) Next was the test fitting of the neck, it fits! The holes for the fret markers were drilled, cut and installed them with some ca glue, then sanded level to the board. I went with off center position for the markers, wanted something different. A lot of sanding and japanese rasp action later, the neck is starting to look more like something usable. I took some cuts from my ESP Horizon neck in cardboard with the profile gauge, and test fit that against my work as I was going along. The neck ended up a bit more beefy than ESP thin, but very comfortable. The fretboard I bought with fret slots and already radiused to 12" from Madinter. I'm guessing they CNC the fretboards, I could see the marks of the machine on it.

Neck routed to the rough outline, had a bit of trouble with routing since I only have a regular desk and some clamps. Had to take a small portion only and then turn the neck and clamp it again in a different position. Glued the fretboard on, as you can see the glue lifted a huge amount overnight. I took a clothes iron, heated the fretboard and clamped it tight! Actually worked to salvage the neck. Lesson learned, you need to leave the fretboard+neck clamped down until the glue is completely solid, two days maybe. Testing out the neck pocket fit with the template, seems to fit well. Finished the body routing and sanding, and dyed the body with Angelus jet black.