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[HNB]

Back has it's second coat. Tough balance. I want it white, but I also want to see the grain through it.

20151116_161515 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20151116_161524 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20151116_161543 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

[Bacchus]

That looks great.
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[HNB]

Thanks! Now that the sealer dried, it was ready to add my images.

20151118_075728 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

I glued them down with some decoupage glue. Here is the back.

20151118_082329 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

And the front.

20151118_083354 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

Tomorrow night they will be ready to get damp and rub off. It should just leave the black image behind. We will see....

[HNB]

Decoupage was a bust, so I ended up defaulting to my go to and made some decals for it. Those look awesome. (The decoupage paper was rubbing off instead of transferring the printed image. Oh well, I tried....)

Not sure if I explained the imagery, but the Buddhist goddess there is my wife's favorite. We have a statue of her in our room. She is the goddess or mercy and children. As a teacher, I am pretty fond of her. This image was a modern painting of her that I made black and white and edited. The lily is a symbol for my daughter. I have one (not this image specifically) tattooed on my leg with her name. The symbol is spring. (Chun)

On the back I have a poem about spring and peace as well as a sparrow. That is an image I have tattooed on my leg for my son. (Not this specific one, but it represents them.)

20151119_170934 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

20151119_170949 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

20151119_170958 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

20151119_171019 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

[HNB]

Back

20151119_200332 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

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[Brandon W]

oh man wow.. i totally love the first inspirational one.. like LOVE it.. awesome job
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[cooter]

Looks great. I really like the front. Too bad about the decoupage but at least you won't need as much clear this way.
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Smells like Rock n' Roll

[HNB]

Thanks! I am grateful to not have to do too much more clear wise. Maybe two more wet sealing coats and I will be able to work on it more tomorrow.

[HNB]

I wiped on some dark walnut stain and wiped it off. It gives it a darker aged tone and helps the white pickguard stand out better.

20151128_112245 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20151128_112254 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

[HNB]

The back has stain now.

20151128_180907 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

[Fakir Mustache]

nice

[Doug]

[HNB]

Progress. I had to dowel the neck so I can redrill the holes. They don't match up to the body. I was able to get the body finished. I am pretty happy with the look honestly. The neck pickup is a bridge Jaguar pickup. The middle and bridge are a custom Mustang set. They noise cancel like a strat does. There is a 500k volume pot and a TBX tone pot. The mini switches are used to bypass the controls and go straight from the switch to jack. Tele hardtail bridge and knobs.

20160222_211320 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

20160222_211324 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

20160222_211335 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

20160222_211355 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

[HNB]

Neck is attached. I put in scrap strings to make sure I drilled it straight. Once strings arrive, it should be ready to rock. Should be interesting to hear how the pickups sound in this setup.

20160305_193401 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

[HNB]

All done. All went as planned except position two is out of phase. I don't see myself using neck/middle enough to take it apart to rewire at the moment, so it will stay that way for now Unfortunate thing that happens when mixing pickup makers. Sounds great. Pretty much sounds like a strat. LOL

20160311_165516 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

20160311_165540 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

20160311_165557 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

20160311_165639 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

20160311_165650 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

20160311_165825 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

(Next to 2.0)

20160311_165841 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

[littlericky]

Looks great. The wash of dark stain really gave it a nice feel.

[rps-10]

That looks great, my version of decoupaging on a build I did last year was just to print out images on the house inkjet, cut them up and stick them on with PVA glue, then when dry, a few coats of clear.
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[Brandon W]

wow
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[HNB]

Looks the same, but I changed the guts and I also changed the switches. I installed a set of Texas Special pickups. Sounds much better and honestly sounds like a Stratocaster which was sort of the goal. I like how strats sound, but don't tend to like the bodies or something about them. The middle switch between knobs turns on the neck pickup in any position so I get seven sound options. The lower one is a kill switch now.

IMG_20160729_225538 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

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20160729_234541 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

[HNB]

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20160730_130607 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr