Knox in Box
Rustbelt refugee.
So,
I've been toying with the idea of doing one of those cheap guitar kits from GFS or so that you see on their site. I found a place over here that sells them. I originally wanted to do a 335 build but was turned off by the fact that the lumber was pre sealed, I would have to drill the TOM bridge myself and it came with gold hardware which would really limit my finishing options. So I thought of a thinline tele but that didn't sound hollow enough. Nice middle ground though, and has its purpose, but not what I was looking for.
So I see this Steinberger headless semi hollow, At first I was like "Yeah, okay, whatever...". After a while it started to grow on me a bit. So My wife was asking about the website since she saw me checking them out, and she thought the steinberger to be nifty enough and I was intrigued by this thin, but I looked and it was out of stock. My wife sent the guy an Email to ask if they were to get any in anytime soon, he replied back that he would be getting some in the middle of June, but had one where someone in his guitar building course had sanded through the veneer on the top and he would give us 15% off of the 189€ plus shipping which would be €7.50. I looked at the photos he sent and found it okay, the person had sanded through by the binding so I would have to do a burst finish or paint it instead of the straight transparent orange I had envisioned. I had her offer 160€ shipped, and he took it too fast. (Should have offered 150)
As we can see the only maple veneer on it is plain and VERRRY thin at this point so I'll have to get my colors right and try not to sand them back too much. If I screw up I'll just paint it or do my Retronaut scheme like on the bass which just so happened to have made it into the shot.
The neck
My tries at finding the right color for a black cherry finish that I can burst with black.
I think I'll with an 8/1 mixture of bright red and black that you see at the far lef, right next is straight red.
To be continued...
I've been toying with the idea of doing one of those cheap guitar kits from GFS or so that you see on their site. I found a place over here that sells them. I originally wanted to do a 335 build but was turned off by the fact that the lumber was pre sealed, I would have to drill the TOM bridge myself and it came with gold hardware which would really limit my finishing options. So I thought of a thinline tele but that didn't sound hollow enough. Nice middle ground though, and has its purpose, but not what I was looking for.
So I see this Steinberger headless semi hollow, At first I was like "Yeah, okay, whatever...". After a while it started to grow on me a bit. So My wife was asking about the website since she saw me checking them out, and she thought the steinberger to be nifty enough and I was intrigued by this thin, but I looked and it was out of stock. My wife sent the guy an Email to ask if they were to get any in anytime soon, he replied back that he would be getting some in the middle of June, but had one where someone in his guitar building course had sanded through the veneer on the top and he would give us 15% off of the 189€ plus shipping which would be €7.50. I looked at the photos he sent and found it okay, the person had sanded through by the binding so I would have to do a burst finish or paint it instead of the straight transparent orange I had envisioned. I had her offer 160€ shipped, and he took it too fast. (Should have offered 150)
As we can see the only maple veneer on it is plain and VERRRY thin at this point so I'll have to get my colors right and try not to sand them back too much. If I screw up I'll just paint it or do my Retronaut scheme like on the bass which just so happened to have made it into the shot.
The neck
My tries at finding the right color for a black cherry finish that I can burst with black.
I think I'll with an 8/1 mixture of bright red and black that you see at the far lef, right next is straight red.
To be continued...
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