Question: Have you ever seen my headstock?

[BoomBoomBigelow]

It looks like this:

 

[BlackCat]

Hehehe.

No danger of trademark infringement claims there.

 

[BoomBoomBigelow]

Here's some closer-ups:

 

[BoomBoomBigelow]

God, my cell cam sucks. My Galaxy SII was great but I lost that in the robbery, and I'll have to grill one of my progeny as to the whereabouts of my Canon digital.

 

[BoomBoomBigelow]

Here's the rest of the deal:




Both the body and the neck, as well as the pick guard and hardware are from gfs. They were gifts. The bridge is a Wilkinson. The pickups are Toneriders. The body is paulownia, there is a slight glue line visible from the bridge to the tail. The neck was a paddle, had to shape it. Also had to take about an eighth inch off of the neck width, and a bit off of the pocket and thus it was hard to align the bridge. And pick guard.
And the pickup cover holes were a tad off.
So if you don't have any guitar building experience, it ain't a plug and play deal.
Works and sounds pretty good though after all is said and done, and but probably could get say a used MIM strat for the same money, needing far less work, and but it was fun.

 

[irishstu]

Nice one, BoomBoomBigelow. I love how it looks authentic at first glance.

Can we make this a "show us your decals" thread? I have a couple I'd like to share too.

 

[B Valley]

Very cool indeed. I'll bet it sounds great.

 

[BoomBoomBigelow]

Nice one, BoomBoomBigelow. I love how it looks authentic at first glance.

Can we make this a "show us your decals" thread? I have a couple I'd like to share too.

Yeah, post 'em up, stu!

 

[wagdog]

Looks like a nice ax. I like those paulowaniowhatchamacallit bodies, light and resonant.

 

[aliensporebomb]

Original Cowtown Baby! LOL! Fantastic!

 

[Peeker]

nice!

 

[Modern Saint]

Cool

 

[Tiltsta]

Hilarious.

 

[BlockInlay]

lol at "pay me"

that's great!

 

[BoomBoomBigelow]

If I could locate this Leon Fendes guy, I'd like to tell him I want a couple more of his Stratocrusters. I hear he's prototyping a new one called the Telecrapper, or Smellecaster, or Fellatiacaster, or something.

 

[irishstu]

Yeah, post 'em up, stu!

Well I'll just post this one for now. My surname's Morrow and my brother's nickname is "Mo". I put together a Tele partscaster for him/me a while back.

This is before I lacquered over the decal, but it's the best view I have:

And this is after applying lacquer (not as good an angle though):

 

[Chad]

Well I'll just post this one for now. My surname's Morrow and my brother's nickname is "Mo". I put together a Tele partscaster for him/me a while back.

This is before I lacquered over the decal, but it's the best view I have:

And this is after applying lacquer (not as good an angle though):

That is a really good looking logo.

 

[BoomBoomBigelow]

Nice job!

 

[Tig]

Cool! Is it the preferred brand for Illuminati?

 

[Phil513]

That's frickin' sweet.