What's on your workbench right now?

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by pjsim » Wed Mar 15, 2017 12:18 pm

Done
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by sporeleki » Wed Mar 15, 2017 2:59 pm

very nice, I dislike black marker maple necks, but that looks beautiful. Good Job.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by vale » Wed Mar 15, 2017 4:35 pm

pjsim wrote:Done
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sporeleki wrote:very nice, I dislike black marker maple necks, but that looks beautiful. Good Job.
i would say exactly the same, so envious (in aspirational way, not mean) of skills like that, when you can just say 'and now i'm going to build...' & whatever is in your head comes out. talent.

but i'm the other way to sporeleki. i was going to ask what that neck is from because the black blocks looks so cool. i think maple necks without black blocks look too yellowy-white and nothing.

on the critical side (pers pref), i don't like white pearloid guards on black (on anything actually but espesh not black). maybe it's an asd thing but it's like the contrast is turned up too high on them. the body & guard become two different objects instead of complementing each other.
obvs i am a black guard on black guitars person. that way they match my bed linen & my heart.

but neat build. is that pickup up to the job of two?
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by BoringPostcards » Wed Mar 15, 2017 8:33 pm

niksureal wrote:just finished this build...
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Oh wow Nick! That finish is amazing! Now I have GAS for something I can't get! lol
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by pjsim » Wed Mar 15, 2017 11:11 pm

vale wrote:
pjsim wrote:Done
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sporeleki wrote:very nice, I dislike black marker maple necks, but that looks beautiful. Good Job.
i would say exactly the same, so envious (in aspirational way, not mean) of skills like that, when you can just say 'and now i'm going to build...' & whatever is in your head comes out. talent.

but i'm the other way to sporeleki. i was going to ask what that neck is from because the black blocks looks so cool. i think maple necks without black blocks look too yellowy-white and nothing.

on the critical side (pers pref), i don't like white pearloid guards on black (on anything actually but espesh not black). maybe it's an asd thing but it's like the contrast is turned up too high on them. the body & guard become two different objects instead of complementing each other.
obvs i am a black guard on black guitars person. that way they match my bed linen & my heart.

but neat build. is that pickup up to the job of two?
The neck is from ebay , it was cheap so painted blocks&binding I guess . It plays nice though.
The pickup is a G&L L-series , wired with passive bass and treble eq . threeway chooses from singlecoil/parallel/series (with OMG cap)

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by niksureal » Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:51 am

BoringPostcards wrote: Oh wow Nick! That finish is amazing! Now I have GAS for something I can't get! lol
:) thanks. it may be in the for sale section soon. was a collaboration with another forum member and i think we are moving it.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Kinghat » Mon Mar 20, 2017 5:55 am

When my paint shipment didn't show up in time for all the projects I had in mind to do this past Tuesday, I decided to start a backburnered piece from a few years ago. Old WWII ammo crate and a plank of alder. Sgt Rock!

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by bdf83 » Mon Mar 20, 2017 8:24 am

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Found a guy on instagram that does custom prints of your headstock. only catch was it would have cost about $70 to get one done and shipped over to England so decided it'd be quicker to do it myself. Traced it on my laptop, coloured it, found a printer that did a couple of them for me and got a cheap frame from Wilkinson so now less than a week later I have a picture for my workshop. Stoked.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by niksureal » Wed Mar 22, 2017 8:29 pm

bad pic but another one i just finished...
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not for me... just a cheesy, 70's, hag/jag rock machine.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by vale » Thu Mar 23, 2017 12:22 am

Kinghat wrote:When my paint shipment didn't show up in time for all the projects I had in mind to do this past Tuesday, I decided to start a backburnered piece from a few years ago. Old WWII ammo crate and a plank of alder. Sgt Rock!

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top work, kinghat. that is unspeakably cool. & it presses lots of buttons for me on a humanitarian level when war stuff gets repurposed for peace, educational & art purposes.

you know the wilkinson boys from british sea power would be all over that like scarlet fever? maybe drop a pic at their fb or bandcamp homepage or something. truly, i suspect something like that would be totally up their alley.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by pjsim » Tue Mar 28, 2017 6:50 am

On my workbench : the JazzGuitar . A strat-sized Jazzbass body
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by higgsblossom » Tue Mar 28, 2017 11:43 pm

Lipstick humbucker = :-*
"500€? That's the price of a J Mascis Jazzmaster!"

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Kinghat » Wed Mar 29, 2017 10:28 am

Making some progress on Sgt. Rock. Using some old WWII bakelite radio knobs and a Faber wraparound. I have nickel posts coming.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Rgand » Wed Mar 29, 2017 12:47 pm

Kinghat wrote:Making some progress on Sgt. Rock. Using some old WWII bakelite radio knobs and a Faber wraparound. I have nickel posts coming.

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Looks great! You going to put a canvas rifle sling on it for the strap?

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Kinghat » Wed Mar 29, 2017 12:51 pm

Rgand wrote:
Kinghat wrote:Making some progress on Sgt. Rock. Using some old WWII bakelite radio knobs and a Faber wraparound. I have nickel posts coming.

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Looks great! You going to put a canvas rifle sling on it for the strap?

I have a military web belt that I modified into a strap

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