Long time, no post

OK, so I know, its been a long time since I posted, so what have I been doing? Well, I've actually done quite a bit on the guitars, but have not had a chance to post for a while. I actually spent some time working on them today too, but I forgot the camera, so I will take some pictures tomorrow and try to post again. I am getting these to look like guitars now. I still have not sprayed the lacquer yet, but I am getting things put together so I have the holes pre-drilled before spraying to avoid chipping the lacquer once it does get put on. Here is the amber, semi-hollow Telecaster with the hardware mounted. The electronics are not wired in as I would just have to unsolder everything and they are not the pickups I am using anyway. You can see the neck mounting bushings and the string ferrules on the first picture.

Here's a couple shots of the guitar with the neck in place. I still need to put the nut on the neck and add the string trees, but other than that, it would be playable.

I also decided to work on the hollow-body Les Paul's sunburst finish. The first shot is the amber dye brushed on everywhere but the edges. Next, I mixed up a reddish dark brown color and brushed it on the edges and into the amber. Isn't that a beautiful burst? Pretty awesome lookin', huh?

I didn't think so either, so I took some sand paper and sanded it down to lighten the color and fade the burst like it should be. This was much easier than spraying the burst as it is more controlled and doesn't require any special set up. I also added another coat of the amber tint to it to warm the appearance of the guitar. The bottom two pictures show the guitar with all the hardware mounted (except the pickguard is just laying on the body). Not to bad looking in my own humble opinion.

What about the green goblin? I've done some work on it too. The first picture is the back after using the green grain filler and dying the back and sides green. Then I had to do some modifications to the hardware. The first picture shows the bridge plate/pickup mount with the bridge part cut off and mounting holes drilled. The next picture is the Telecaster pickguard with the second (middle position) pickup mounting rout routed out.

Here's the body with everything laying in place. I have not yet gotten around to drilling the holes, so I have not screwed anything in place yet. The dark spots on the body are from spraying the guitar with water to try to get the finished look, but most of it dried up before I could get everything in place on the guitar and take the pictures.

Well, I'm getting pretty excited about getting these finished. I have a possible three more guitars to be working on in the future, so it does not look like I will be getting bored with this just yet. I will try to post again tomorrow after doing more work if I remember my camera. As always, thanks for looking and please leave feedback for me and let me know what you think.

Aaron