Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

[CROSS_guitars]

Neck is pretty much done!

[CROSS_guitars]

Another completely random guitar mashup idea.

[finboy]

Good choice of eras there

[smjenkins]

Another completely random guitar mashup idea.

The Broncuar rides!

[CROSS_guitars]

Well, it's a Squier Musicmaster crossed with a Jag stang.
Both are products of circa '96. So I guess it could be called the Ninety-Six?

[JVG]

Neck is pretty much done!

That is a piece of art. Love the shade of red on the front, too.

[CROSS_guitars]

Thank you!

I had to recess the back of the headstock for the tuners to be long enough.
I haven't seen this done before. It worked out quite well.

[javier-san]

Another completely random guitar mashup idea.

a WRHB would look/sound dope...

[JVG]

Thank you!

I had to recess the back of the headstock for the tuners to be long enough.
I haven't seen this done before. It worked out quite well.

The recess looks great, and adds to the overall design.

[CROSS_guitars]

I managed to get a few coats of paint on today.
It's been a cold week but there was some sunshine.




The alder grain shows through a lot clearer in person.

[GilmourD]

I managed to get a few coats of paint on today.
It's been a cold week but there was some sunshine.




The alder grain shows through a lot clearer in person.

I imagine that's going to be intentionally translucent?

I'm waiting for it to be a little more consistently warm (New Jersey seems to like giving us winter AND summer in the same day lately) before I start painting the bodies myself.

That looks super even on the top surface. Would I be correct that you're laying on as little as possible with each coat? Would your advice for me to achieve the same to be to just be patient?

Yes, I know they're leading questions but I haven't had much coffee yet and the brain hasn't fully booted up.

[Flurko]

Always a big love from me for the half regular/half slotted headstock. I think Wire Instruments (Earnie Bailey, Nirvana tech IIRC) does something similar and I always dug it :

[CROSS_guitars]

I imagine that's going to be intentionally translucent?

I'm waiting for it to be a little more consistently warm (New Jersey seems to like giving us winter AND summer in the same day lately) before I start painting the bodies myself.

That looks super even on the top surface. Would I be correct that you're laying on as little as possible with each coat? Would your advice for me to achieve the same to be to just be patient?

Yes, I know they're leading questions but I haven't had much coffee yet and the brain hasn't fully booted up.

Yeah, the paint I bought is the transparent red that is meant for sunburst finishes.
But it is also quite opaque. So the grain will be subtle.
I only put 2 coats of red on it, the rest will just be built up layers of gloss clear.

[CROSS_guitars]

A quick mockup between coats..