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Posted some more pics and such they are Here, I still need to figure out how to make the photos smaller and have lower resolution as they take up alot of space.

I got the body halves glued together, for the back/sides, and sanded it down to get it ready to mount in the mill to do the routing, should make one hell of a pile of wood shaving. I have also gone and started making the tail piece out of some 1/16" aluminum, lots of filing and adjusting, I just had to be different I still need to clean it up a bit more and drill the mounting holes and string holes. Anyhow I well try and post more pics as I go, should be able to get alot done over the christmas break, hopefully all done . Crank up the tunes and work untill my eyes go numb

Holy crap that was one crazy trip, never seen this thread as I am fairly new still so I read through the whole thing. That is one amazingly beutafull piece of art and instrument.

Yes just a bit full of himself

Cool I well try the shoe polish and see how that works, I would get killed for trying the coffee thing though The weard thing about the pics is that when I pulled up the properties for the photo, I have it posted on my website, to get the proper link it was showing up as being only a bit over 300x400, oh well, how do you post thumbnails of pics? As for the feric chloride I knew about that one, I accidently spilled some on a steel table while etching a circuit board for a Fuzz box one time and it almost instantly started to get rust spots on it. Anyway I just wiped it off quickly and it was fine. Anyhow thanks for the replies.

I built a Saga Telecaster kit this summer and was wondering if anyone knew how to age a pickguard? The main reason being that the guitar is painted red with natural wood spikes and the sterile looking pick guard looks out of place and I think it would look much better if it was aged off white to better compliment the color of the spikes. Here is a pic of the guitar for reference.

How do you age a pickguard? I have a Saga telecaster that I put together that I painted red with Natural wood spikes coming up from the bottom which looks cool except that the pickguard is typical saga and looks overly sterile. I was wondering if there was a way to give it an aged look to better compliment the spikes. As an afterthought I should have just left it off and filled the holes. +1 for the feric cloride, I spilled a little on my table saw one time while etching a pc board and it almost instantly started rusting the top which is just bare steel.

Once you strip it back to bare wood, you should be able to stream them out with a wet rag and an iron. As for the neck, could you possibly just bleach the thing to get it to look more the way you want it. I take it the idea is to have the neck better match the white body right?

Thanks, I had forgotten that the resilution of my web site is differnet from most forums, I had the same trouble with a Mazda Pickup forum. As you can see I have way to many hobbies I need to take more pics of things and up date the site some more.

Thanks for the info I might edit that post and just post a link to my webpage for it.

Got around to taking a photo of the plan. Here it is a link to the page for the project. Project page Also took a photo of my design for the headstock, only shows half of it though, haven't copied to the other side yet. I have also revised the design a bit more, I have decided to get rid of the sound hole and run two humbuckers, I might still have a sound hole somewere, might even have them out the sides or bottom. Oh well still working on the design as I do more research Sorry about the size, I did not realize that they would come out as big. Oh well you can clearly see the design though.

Thanks for the reply, I was mainly going for looks with the binding and not really for protection as much. I guess I could try my heat gun then as well. How thick is wood binding typically then any way, I could cut some 1/8" as well if that would work better, or I could also get some spruce.

I would think there is some kind of product for doing this as there are places that well mount a poster on a wood board. You might be able to find a place locally that could help you get the stuff to do it or even do it for you for a small fee.

I have a bunch of 1/4" x 1/16" thick basswood in my stock pile of wood for model airplanes and was wondering if that would be a good binding material for a guitar. Also I was wondering if sinse I do not have a bending rig and am to lazy to make one if I could simply tape one end of the wood strip to the channel cut for the binding, while wet, and use my model airplane covering iron to bend the wood around the corners taping as I go. I think this would work fine. If anyone is wondering the covering iron is one of these, just 30+ years old. I was thinking the curved tip would work good in tight corners as well.

Yeah, I have a book about building solid body guitars, read it cover to cover. I am going to mess around with my original idea and see how the ones in my PRS copy sound as an experiment and go from there. I was mainly looking at different options for now but well probably not get around to pickups for a while now, still have a few weeks of school before break and I do not have time to build stuff. Anyhow thanks for the advice. I am still rumaging around the forum for info and ideas.