Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]



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Re: Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

Postby kosta » Thu May 14, 2020 2:41 pm

Repoman you are coming in HOT with the good stuff right now. Great looking stuff.

Muddy - that's a great looking guitar and a wonderful tribute. :hug:
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Re: Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

Postby repoman » Fri May 15, 2020 2:03 pm

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Firebird nr with reverse headstock build, dunno what I'm gonna paint it, really confusing neck construction, I can't figure out how Gibson made these back in the day because it's way more complex than a Les Paul tenon, but these were budget guitars. :?: I think I'm gonna make it 25.5 scale because I have a pre-made fretboard left over and don't feel like making a 24.625" scale fretboard from scratch right now because sanding the radius in is a massive pain in the ass. I have a couple pre-made 24.625" but they are 24 fret, which would wind up being a 23 fret...which is just weird. :poke: I should have routed it for Jazzmaster pickups.

Also have this weird ass bass build, which is like a reverse mustang with Mosrite carve and bass tele neck. I need to buy a rabbeting bit for binding though, I have some weird ass binding for it. :idea:

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Re: Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

Postby Blackened Soul » Sun May 17, 2020 7:21 pm

I made a new body for my twelve string bass.
It's elm from a table top I pulled out of my grandmothers garage over 20 years ago so it's probably been drying for 40 to 50+ years.. who knows.. Lace ManOwar MM pickup

the finish is.. I set it on fire and then sanded it and used that driftwood aging stuff, I wanted it to look like you reached into you screen while watching a 30s horror movie and pull it out :lol:

sound is monstrous, and balances about like a Bass or a Ric :thumb:
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Re: Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

Postby coldbrightsunlight » Mon May 18, 2020 4:02 am

Woooow that's amazing! :rock:
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Re: Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

Postby Paul_C » Sun Jul 19, 2020 2:58 pm

I noticed a couple of mentions of the Revelation Marrakesh in the last few months, and having watched a video I thought that it might be fun to try, so I spent a while yesterday and today adding 7 new frets to my skip-found Westone Thunder 1-A.

I've not tried it out properly yet, but I reckon it'll be fun once I get my head round it.

Here's a terrible photo of it:

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Re: Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

Postby coldbrightsunlight » Sun Jul 19, 2020 4:29 pm

wooahhh cool! any chance you could give a quick rundown of how you did it? I have an old guitar I have been thinking about performing some wacky projects in.

Is it as simple as cutting slots and sticking the frets in? lol
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Re: Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

Postby Paul_C » Sun Jul 19, 2020 5:28 pm

coldbrightsunlight wrote:wooahhh cool! any chance you could give a quick rundown of how you did it? I have an old guitar I have been thinking about performing some wacky projects in.

Is it as simple as cutting slots and sticking the frets in? lol


That's most of it :)

Cutting them square and in the right place* makes things more consistent (if that's important), they'll need to be the same height as the other frets (which might need some work to achieve) and the ends will need filing, but otherwise it's mostly cutting slots and knocking the frets in with a hammer.



*if it is important there are fret position calculators online which will give the correct measurements, usually as a measurement from the nut to the spot the slot needs to be cut.

The other choice (which I plan to do to something eventually) is to remove the frets entirely (I've de-fretted basses for people and usually fill the slots with plastic card for a nice clean line) which gives an infinity of note choices :)
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Re: Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

Postby coldbrightsunlight » Mon Jul 20, 2020 3:52 am

haha yeah I already have a "proper" fretless bass and I've defretted another bass in the past.

I had been eyeing up this guitar for removing the frets for a while! but this would potentially be more fun for me.
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Re: Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

Postby Paul_C » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:24 pm

One more modification to it - the P90 is a bit quiet compared to the mini humbuckers, so I've swapped it for a Monty's PAF (made in the UK, given to me by a customer) and it sounds very nice indeed.

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Re: Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

Postby repoman » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:47 pm

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hobbling together this short scale baritone Wandre twist thing
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Re: Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

Postby coldbrightsunlight » Wed Jul 22, 2020 2:20 am

Wow I love that shape!
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Re: Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

Postby repoman » Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:42 pm

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Got the neck dovetailing complete, I came up with a kind of a goofy way of making them but the dovetail comes out extremely precise around the aluminum half round, I have to hammer it on and off.

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TIG welded the heads on, I've never welded before so I dipped the electrode into the metal a bunch and wound up with little holes along the seam :idk: should look ok when polished. :poke:
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Re: Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

Postby Achtane » Thu Jul 23, 2020 11:17 pm

Damn! That's dedication!
Dude, you should see my first stick welds...yours are fine art in comparison.
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Re: Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

Postby repoman » Fri Jul 24, 2020 6:57 pm

Ha, I'm sure your stick welds look nicer than these joints when I welded them. I filed these joints and then used sandpaper on them, right after welding they look terrible.
This is sort of how it's gonna be, Wandres were finished a lot of times with candle soot that was used to paint sort of a soot wisp burst on them which looks super cool. I've been trying to figure out how to make a candle really sooty, I made a candle with parafin and a really long wick and it makes it pretty sooty but maybe not quite enough, also just using this blue as a base for a metallic olive powder I got. The controls will go in the pedal enclosure, I need to cut an angle in that so it sinks into the body more and the jack will go in the end sticking out.

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This is the Wandre I'm trying to make, to me it looks like a mashup between a Les Paul and Mustang.

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Someone actually sells legit repros of those cool trapezoid pickups but they are insanely expensive, they are actually kind of like Fender XII pickups inside there. I need to buy an arbor press and some nickel silver sheet to try and make some covers like that, I think some Jazzmaster pickups in there would be awesome.

Just gonna use a Mastery for the bridge, used a NOS Hagstrom Tremar for the vibrato. I've never seen an actual wandre bridge and tremolos up close, they look extremely complicated in pictures (the saddles in the bridge actually suspend the strings above the pickups, instead of how strings typically rest on them).
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Re: Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

Postby repoman » Sun Jul 26, 2020 3:31 pm

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ok, have the spacey smoke paint job almost done, just needs some clear and wetsanding/buffing.

I fucking hate nitro lacquer. Full face respirator, tyvek suit and I still feel nasty and contaminated after spraying that shit.
why does water based paint suck so much...why has no one come up with water based stuff that is easy to use and looks as good as nitro...??

I used some olive green metallic pigment stuff mixed into clear lacquer from Didspade, its really cheap and they have all sorts of color shift pigments. There is a light dusting of gold/lime green color shift on top of the smoke wisps that you can't really observe in the photos, it looks very outer space-ish depending on the angle it's held at. You can do so much cool shit with mixing layers of this stuff...IE green/purple shift base with pink/blue shift clear...I wish I could spray flake as a base but it's prohibitively messy since I spray outside...do something like spraying color shift pearl over large silver flake..or sunburst two different color shifts so you get like a 4 color burst thats really just 2 colors.
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