Gimme some opinions! (burrito's project thread...)

[Achtane]

I like the orange
Orange body, black pickguard + black or orange headstock = yuss

[gunslinger_burrito]

I was orginally gonna do that, but I've already attacked it with a heat gun. . .

[Achtane]

Oh yeah, forgot about that
Like I said, green body, black pickguard + black or green headstock = yuss

[gunslinger_burrito]

Oh shit! Maybe I ought to check out some of the colored bodies that ECG made! They had some models with some real nice colors.

[gunslinger_burrito]

Going with a wine red I found at the hardware store. I may have to get some poly finish, though. I decided to say screw it and just used some all-in-one style rust-oleum. Then newspaper got stuck to parts of both guitar bodies so I have to figure out how to make those spots look nicer.....

[Decibill]

Going with a wine red I found at the hardware store. I may have to get some poly finish, though. I decided to say screw it and just used some all-in-one style rust-oleum. Then newspaper got stuck to parts of both guitar bodies so I have to figure out how to make those spots look nicer.....

Eeek...Sorry man....Back to sanding....!!

[Achtane]

Going with a wine red I found at the hardware store. I may have to get some poly finish, though. I decided to say screw it and just used some all-in-one style rust-oleum. Then newspaper got stuck to parts of both guitar bodies so I have to figure out how to make those spots look nicer.....

Eeek...Sorry man....Back to sanding....!!

Yep.
Sanding down a layer or two of paint isn't as bad as sanding away the initial finish though.

[gunslinger_burrito]

I said double-fuck it. These bodies aren't the nicest woods, anyways. One is some super, super lightweight wood that's really soft (it was a Xaviere) and the other was a strat-style Epiphone that I sawed into a different shape. The Epi body is made from layers of woods glued together, so once I sawed it, I didn't really see any way for the layers not to show, even through a few layers of the spray paint. I'll get some pics up soon.

[gunslinger_burrito]

oooook. So pretty soon it's going to be assemblage time. Anyone following this thread have opinions on a tone question? I want one of these guitars to be tuned in standard, and the other in some funky drop-tuned nonsense. I know what an SG sounds like downtuned, and those don't have a lot of wood, but they're typically dense wood....

I have a strat style body and an offset jazzy knock-off body that's really super lightweight. I'm going to put tune-o-matic style bridges on both, and maybe put a behind-the-bridge pickup in the empty trem space on the strat body. My pickup options are pretty wide open; I've got some P90s, some regular humbuckers, some single-coils that I may wire into HBs, and some bladed bass HBs that should fit....

[Obulus]

I've used single coils in the two guitars with a pickup behind the bridge. One sounds fine, but the other is really shrill. The really shrill one is a telecaster bridge pickup from a HK guitar, so it's not necessarily a case of single coils suck. When I have some spare cash, I'm probably going to pick up one of those tele sized bladed humbuckers from GFS to try in there. I'm thinking a pickup without enough hi-end response might suck though if you're trying to capture the harmonics behind the bridge while playing normal.

Also, pics of the cut up strat? I just bought a cheap strat to do the same to. I'm looking to get it to sort of a Squier Super Sonic shape.

[gunslinger_burrito]

edited so the photo isn't so gigantic anymore!

[Obulus]

That's pretty awesome looking! What equipment did you use to cut it? Looking forward to seeing the finished product!

[gunslinger_burrito]

Oh fuck, I posted that pic from work and had no idea it would make it so big.

To answer your question, I just used a regular-ass wood saw.

[Decibill]

P90 with some buckers would give a nice thick punchy sound...

[gunslinger_burrito]

Dammit! I had a bit of trouble getting the tuneomatic thimbles to fit snug enough on one guitar, and so I glued them in....problem solved, right?


I forgot to get the ground wire in there before I glued them in

The wood's wayy to soft to pry the thimble out. What else can I ground to? It's got a jazzy style trem on it Can I just fit a piece of metal in the body somewhere and ground to that?