Partscaster Stratocaster Project
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 11:24 pm
I like guitar building, luthier's work is something I appreciate.
There are so many nice woods to use and so many guitar shapes you can design.
Well, wood working is unfortunately not possible when living in an appartment mostly due to noise issues.
So I grab the parts over the web and I build my projects.
So everything strarted when I saw a bargain on Epay and I got the body.
Then I found a loaded scratchplate with a mid boost and vintage noiseless pickups in the classified section of a guitar forum.
A vintage spec neck, soft V and 21 frets, I think it's called the Fender "classic 50's" series.
I had to route the cavity for the mid boost extra electronics.
And the battery cavity.
As you can see the wood grain is mismatched and a natural finish is not really possible.
So I went to an automotive store and in the tuning aisle there was some "custom" paint.
I bought a can of dark metallic red with its dedicated black primer and of course the
clear to give some gloss to the finish. This paint has some pigments in it that change of
color depending on the light source.
After applying the primer, sanding, applying the color, applying the 1st clearcoat, sanding
and applying the 2nd clearcoat, sanding and buffing it looks like that.
It goes from copper gold to an almost blackish cherry red.
There are so many nice woods to use and so many guitar shapes you can design.
Well, wood working is unfortunately not possible when living in an appartment mostly due to noise issues.
So I grab the parts over the web and I build my projects.
So everything strarted when I saw a bargain on Epay and I got the body.
Then I found a loaded scratchplate with a mid boost and vintage noiseless pickups in the classified section of a guitar forum.
A vintage spec neck, soft V and 21 frets, I think it's called the Fender "classic 50's" series.
I had to route the cavity for the mid boost extra electronics.
And the battery cavity.
As you can see the wood grain is mismatched and a natural finish is not really possible.
So I went to an automotive store and in the tuning aisle there was some "custom" paint.
I bought a can of dark metallic red with its dedicated black primer and of course the
clear to give some gloss to the finish. This paint has some pigments in it that change of
color depending on the light source.
After applying the primer, sanding, applying the color, applying the 1st clearcoat, sanding
and applying the 2nd clearcoat, sanding and buffing it looks like that.
It goes from copper gold to an almost blackish cherry red.