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Thank you all so much!!!!

It was such an honor to be guitar of the month!!

Thank you also for the great advice you guys provided me with all this time!!!

I enjoyed this build so much! So much stuff I have not tried before!

Armaan , you have a great talent! Keep ‘em coming!!

Hope to see you all soon again on a future build!!

Thanks again so much!!!

Thanks to all for voting for Stella!

The Sabbatical was a hard opponent! You have my respect chancellor! Yours does not seem anywhere near a so-called “first build”.
You are very skilled!

 Great quality!!!

Thank you all so much!!

So here are the two sisters: Stella and Danae! (Danae was featurred in an older build thread).

Those are the names of my two daughters.

Hello!

This is Stella!

Made from home-vacuum-pressed maple laminate plates.

The thread of the build is here:

A big thanks to all you guys for all of your insights!

Here is how the guitar sounds:

Specs:

TV Jones Classic pickups

Home-made 7075 alumunium bridge

Duesenberg Radiator trem

Maple/maple/maple vacuume crossed-grain pressed plates for top and back

Ebony fretboard

Pearloid inlays

Zero fret

Fret nibs

24.625” scale

12” radius

Korina neck with scarf joint

6-in-line tuners

Master Vol Neck Vol Bridge Vol configuration

Switchcraft 3-way pickup selector toggle.

Gretsch 3- way mud switch

.0047μF and pio .022μF

3 switches for

phase -off - out of phase

bridge series split parallel

neck series split parallel

Enjoy!

So here is how she sounds like!

LOTS of options!

Hey thanks all!

Difficult summer so far, with so many things happening all around..

Anyways , a friend of mine took tha guitar for a spin and liked the out of phase sounds very much.

Another one took some more professional pics.

Youtube video coming up too.

20 minutes ago, Charlie H 72 said:

Yooooo that’s awesome!!!

love it! 
 

You owe it to yourself to get better pics-outside on a cloudy day with a plain background or have a friend who’s good with a camera come snap a few. 

Anyway-that aside, congrats, this has been really fun to follow, and most importantly, I’m sure it’s fun to play! Enjoy! 

 

You are right! I will have to arrange a photo-shoot! I will try and get a video done soon so you can hear how it sounds! I love it!

I desided to give a sharper edge to the compnsated bridge for better sustain. Charis of GMI Halon hardware advised me to. Look them up they are GREAT!

Ready to connect!

Did the final buffing and I am ready to install the wiring octopus!!

On 7/22/2021 at 3:05 PM, Charlie H 72 said:

Whoa, awesome bridge! I would love to hear more about how you made that. I’m really looking forward to seeing the glamor shots of this thing-It’s so close!

hello again! Thank you so much!

I have some pics scattered in this thread of how this bridge was made.

It was basically carved out of a piece of 7075 aluminoum. I rough cut it with a saw then drilled for the post holes then did a lot of filing and …here we are!

I love how it rings and it feels wonderful playing with my right hand! It is sleek!

Home-made Compton aluminum bridge almost done! Filed to compensated distance for better intonation!

Sounds snappy but full.

As you can see I went with the filtertrons…. TV hones classic set.

Haven t done the buffing yet. The finish looks blurry in the pics.

Put some strings on! Screwd the bridge on! Liked what I heard!

On 7/9/2021 at 10:13 AM, Bizman62 said:

Giving it a name and putting in a bottom label sure adds a professional touch! A Stellar idea!

Hey thanks so much!!

On 7/11/2021 at 12:45 AM, Muzz said:

The gorgeous metallic blue, the chrome, the splashes of white and pearl, everything here is working, this guitar has got it going awn  

Thank you very much!!! 
 

I made the nut and installed the trem. Everything seems lined - up! 
 

This thing is loud man! I wonder how it sounds plugged -in!

Not much of free time for me this summer. I am letting the nitro dry.

Meanwhile I levelled the frets and installed the zero fret. 
 

Made the waterslide decal.

Designed the oval paper label.

See through metallic blue !

And a little teaser.

14 minutes ago, mistermikev said:

was just about to say how much I like the natural against that dark brown... doh!

I liked it too... maybe on the next build!

37 minutes ago, FINEFUZZ said:

Very cool, and metallic can be a challenge to spray evenly!

Thank you!! I went with the moto “less is more” while spraying it on!

I went with a metallic blue nitro spray.

it is kinda see-through!

I think I like it !

Need to scrape the binding!

7 hours ago, Drak said:

When I used to do binding, it was almost always double-bound.

And I would almost always (maybe 100% always) black the sides just like that.

So your side pics remind me a lot of when I did binding jobs, usually on Teles..

So we've got black sides and binding, and Hofner block inlays, and a somewhat slightly 'hook beak' on the headstock.

I'm loving it, haha, keep going!

 

About the black metallic...what is the metallic ingredient if you know?

Usually with black, you need another color to 'see' a metallic effect.

Silver, gold, green, red, etc.

Black paint with black metallic 'flake' usually yields just a rather bumpy black surface.

Hello again! Thank you!

The ingredient seems to be a silver dust of some kind. Not very bumpy actually, there will be of course clear nitro over this , so it will look more three-dimensional I hope.

12 hours ago, Bizman62 said:

Doesn't the first sentence already include the answer?

The black seems to accent the binding even on the natural side, that's very stylish as such!

Hmm tough decision! I thought I should go with something blue -ish...

Tried the blue metallic nitro spray and it is see-through... might use that maybe in a sunburst fashion.

I sanded it off but I might give it another go...

Black metallic for the sides and back of neck!

Love the contrast!!

front and back yet to be decided!!