Had an old friend send me a trashed guitar, damaged and missing parts.
He hated the color, understandably so.
Gave me free reign over the results. So I started to remove the ugly and do my thing.
It originally had single volume and single tone with cheap push pulls.
I plugged one pot hole and spaced three even ones.
Then the body work...
Then we decided on a nice medium blue color.
So after days of wet sanding from 320 on up to 3000 grit, I blew through the edges... Curses Muttly!
So back to the drawing board.
By now I was getting a good buildup of paint on the edges. Thought I was home free.
Had a nice smooth gloss coming out and then I did it again, I blew through the top edge of the body while
working on the sides. This time I saved all my hard work and painted a faux binding around the edge where
my mishaps kept occurring.
This is the first mock up with the faux binding, after setting the new chrome pickup rings, bridge plate and knobs in place.
Bingo! It looks great, adds some detail and covers up my booboo's.
The original pickup rings were black plastic, thought the chrome would add some needed bling as well as match the bridge plate.
Then I installed a new 3 way switch, wired up the three quadbucker pickups and started to make it look like
a guitar once again.
And finally some reassembly.
It has a Bourns 500k push pull pot for the neck & bridge volume through the 3 way switch, and another
Bourns 500k push pull pot in the middle for the middle pickup volume. The tone pot is just a standard Bourns
500k mini pot with a 0.046 tone cap.
The top push pull is a coil cut for the neck & bridge pickups and the middle push pull is a series / parallel switch
for the neck & bridge pickups.
I think my friend will be pleased with the results. Just ordered a new hard case from Musicians Friend to send it back to Ohio in.
He hated the color, understandably so.
Gave me free reign over the results. So I started to remove the ugly and do my thing.
It originally had single volume and single tone with cheap push pulls.
I plugged one pot hole and spaced three even ones.
Then the body work...
Then we decided on a nice medium blue color.
So after days of wet sanding from 320 on up to 3000 grit, I blew through the edges... Curses Muttly!
So back to the drawing board.
By now I was getting a good buildup of paint on the edges. Thought I was home free.
Had a nice smooth gloss coming out and then I did it again, I blew through the top edge of the body while
working on the sides. This time I saved all my hard work and painted a faux binding around the edge where
my mishaps kept occurring.
This is the first mock up with the faux binding, after setting the new chrome pickup rings, bridge plate and knobs in place.
Bingo! It looks great, adds some detail and covers up my booboo's.
The original pickup rings were black plastic, thought the chrome would add some needed bling as well as match the bridge plate.
Then I installed a new 3 way switch, wired up the three quadbucker pickups and started to make it look like
a guitar once again.
And finally some reassembly.
It has a Bourns 500k push pull pot for the neck & bridge volume through the 3 way switch, and another
Bourns 500k push pull pot in the middle for the middle pickup volume. The tone pot is just a standard Bourns
500k mini pot with a 0.046 tone cap.
The top push pull is a coil cut for the neck & bridge pickups and the middle push pull is a series / parallel switch
for the neck & bridge pickups.
I think my friend will be pleased with the results. Just ordered a new hard case from Musicians Friend to send it back to Ohio in.
