Going to make some meteoras!

Woo hoo! Knobs arrived. I’ll pull it outside tomorrow for a photo shoot.
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The Warmoth neck for the green ash strat will be here tomorrow and I can get it underway for real.

I’ve been collecting pieces for a telecaster setup for myself. There’s a poplar body, a new maple neck blank and fretboard blank. A Hipshot bridge.
The neck blank is 2x4x36. I’m hoping I can get two tilt-back headstock necks from it.

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I already have a plywood template for two humbuckers which matches the two-humbucker body template I use. Instead of starting from scratch, I’m using a strat single coil template to modify the pickguard template instead of making another.
With this acrylic template, you can see the masking tape/super glue technique at work. Cheap effective and thin. Pops apart real easy.

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Customer likes a Warmoth neck so that’s what he’s getting. One piece maple with standard thin profile. 10”-16” progressive radius fretboard. Stainless 6150 fret wire. 1.695 nut width. Black dot markers and strat headstock. It’s unfinished now. I’ll give it a little color with shellac first then lacquer.
Not sure how they finish their stainless fret ends there at Warmoth but they seem to be a little better finished than the regular ones. Maybe just me but these feel a little rounder on the ends than their nickel wire.
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I need to make a new pickguard for mine. One of the volume pots is tight up against the side of the control cavity and it’s causing a warp. I don’t really care for the matte black I have now anyway.
I think the blue I used is gray enough to make you question whether it’s blue so I want to enhance the blue-ness with a blue pearloid guard.
Here’s a little digital rendering…

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I wanted a pink Strat but, I wanted a lighter pink than shell pink. The idea was, if shell pink=Daphne blue I want what equals sonic blue. I'm a horrible painter but, I did get the color I wanted. During the process of painting, my family was mercilous. Over and over, that's not pink, it's white. The happy ending was when I put the white PG on. Now, everybody agrees, it's pink. So, with my very limited knowledge, I think if you want to bring out the blue of the body, you need a grey PG. I think giving your brain the real thing right next to it is what's going on. Maybe sit a grey t shirt by it and see what it does.
 
Ok back to work here! This body is carved!!!
I have started the cerusing process by digging out the soft grain with a wire brush.
After this, I’ll hit it with some shellac and a light coat of black paint.

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Elias Graves said:
Ok back to work here! This body is carved!!!
I have started the cerusing process by digging out the soft grain with a wire brush.
After this, I’ll hit it with some shellac and a light coat of black paint.

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"I have started the cerusing process by digging out the soft grain with a wire brush."

Cerusing, that's a new word for me, thought it was a typo and you meant the cursing process, because it was a pain in the ass or, your project went to shit.
 
Bob411 said:
"I have started the cerusing process by digging out the soft grain with a wire brush."

Cerusing, that's a new word for me, thought it was a typo and you meant the cursing process, because it was a pain in the ass or, your project went to shit.
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BWAHAHAHAHA! Nope. It’s just a term that means to dig out the grain and use a contrasting filler.
Black base coat going down.
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