Going to make some meteoras!

[Elias Graves]

Well, I boofed the pickguard on SN3. I now know that BWB three ply pickguard material does indeed have a front and back side.

I don’t have any BWB material on hand but I do have more polycarbonate like I used on SN1….so imma spray it black from the back side.
That looks killer!

 

[Elias Graves]

 

[Elias Graves]

First coat of primer on SN 2 and 3

 

[Elias Graves]

And assembling the pickguard for SN1.

 

[Elias Graves]

Time to turn to a little neck construction. Tru-oil is drying on SN1 while SN2 and 3 are on hold because it’s too wet to spray lacquer.

Here’s what I got. One chunk of well-aged African mahogany with some gray mineral streaking. One truss rod. One slice of wenge to serve as a fingerboard. I have fret wire around here somewhere. Some Jescar medium jumbo I believe.

The mineral streaking is subtle but pervasive and runs throughout. I guess this makes my neck appropriate for hard rock music.

I’m digging the wenge. It’s freaking hard and has a nice glass-like quality to the sound when you rap on it.

 

[Elias Graves]

Painting presently delayed by rain. I continue neck work. Got myself a truss rod installed!

 

[Elias Graves]

I got the ash firebird finish completed. Tru oil doesn’t take long.

Assembly has begun.

 

[bsman]

i love that shit. I never learned how to do any of it, but in recompense I do still have all ten fingers!!!

 

[Elias Graves]

I couldn’t resist a little mockup. Can’t decide if I like the white plastic better or black.

 

[tiger roach]

I couldn’t resist a little mockup. Can’t decide if I like the white plastic better or black.


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I like the white pups...

What P90s are they BTW?

 

[mystixboi1]

Niiice

 

[MonkeyZero]

White pups. Lookin good!

 

[Elias Graves]

I like the white pups...

What P90s are they BTW?

Seymour Duncan vintage P90. I swapped the A5 magnets on the neck pickup for A3, though.

 

[Elias Graves]

Back to my neck build. Gluing up the truss rod and installing a filler plug.

 

[Elias Graves]

And now a flamey maple filler strip atop the truss rod.

 

[baimun]

Those are looking great @Elias Graves !!

I'm going to have to line up the Meteora and Jazzmaster shapes in Photoshop... because the Meteora is quite a bit cooler shape than the big, bulky, Jazzmaster.

EDIT.... Found one. Damn, they're close but the Meteora is so much sleeker and modern looking.

 

[Elias Graves]

Those are looking great @Elias Graves !!

I'm going to have to line up the Meteora and Jazzmaster shapes in Photoshop... because the Meteora is quite a bit cooler shape than the big, bulky, Jazzmaster.

EDIT.... Found one. Damn, they're close but the Meteora is so much sleeker and modern looking.

Thank you.
Yeah I have templates for both. The JM is definitely bigger by comparison. I think size-wise, there’s about the same amount of real estate as on a Strat, just moved around a bit.
I gotta say the meteora body isn’t just a gimmick. The ergonomics of this are very well thought out.
From the switch to the playing position to your volume and tone knobs, all you need to do is sweep your elbow. Everything falls right in line with your swinging hand.

 

[Elias Graves]

Doing some assembly work on the ash firebird. The clear pickguard is too cool!
It’s not wired up yet. I’m working on the setup. It’s quite loud!

The pickup wiring will be:
Neck/bridge…choose from parallel coils, series coils or off.
Middle…+phase, -phase, off
The round button up front is a momentary kill switch buckethead style.

 

[Elias Graves]

Alright after much rain delay in finish work, one is finished finally!!!

The wiring was hell.
All pups have an on/off/on toggle so you can run any combination of pups you want.
Bridge and neck pups are wired so the switch puts the two coils in parallel or series or off.
Neck pickup switch allows you to switch electrical phase or turn it off.
The big round button on the lower horn is a momentary kill switch.

 

[miguel]

Looks nice