Lucifer wrote:Hi Doc,
Any updates on your 'headless' project yet ? Did you manage to get your bridge sorted ?
I'm just building a 'Tele' for myself from bits purchased on YeBa. Not a kit, as such, but an interesting little project nevertheless.
Got a nice 50s-style maple neck complete with tuners, frets, nut - very cheap - cos the nut's been set a bit skewed (easy enough to reset).
The body's a spraying reject, but that's no prob, as I'm going to rub it down anyway and do a bit of re-shaping (Strat-type contours).
Building and wiring should be dead easy, but the bit that I'm not confident about is re-finishing the body. You seem pretty clued up on that . . . so any tips ?
Cheers,
Lucifer
Hi Lucifer,
I was hoping I could buy an R-Trem bridge on eBay at a good price to replace the Overlord Of Music bridge that was supplied in the kit, unfortunately there weren't many R-Trems listed, so I did some netsurfing and found an online company that sells complete R-Trems, but they want $234.00 for one, I might just have to bite the bullet and buy one when my finances permit me to, so for the time being all I can do is take the guitar apart and apply sealer to the body and neck, looks like this project is going to take longer than I anticipated, I'll keep the updates coming though....
Your Tele project sounds cool, I'm a bit new to guitar body finishing so I understand, it's a bit of a learning curve....
From what I've read, after you've done all the sanding-down of the finish the first thing that needs to be done is to coat the body and the back of the neck with a good wood sanding-sealer, I went to my local Bunnings store and ended up buying a can of Feast Watson Sanding Sealer, my younger brother suggested testing it out using some pieces of wood from a couple of clothes pegs just to see how long it took to dry (we were still in our wet season at the time hence the reason for testing it), once you've got about 4 layers or so built up, you sand the surface smooth, the PDF books I got from rcustoms said to start with something like 320 grit and work your way up to something like 600 grit sandpaper, once you've sanded it smooth you then work out what kind of finish you want, I did a lot of thinking and decided to clear-lacquer the back of the neck and paint the body metallic blue, but really the finish of your guitar is totally up to you, you could pm rcustoms and ask him to email you the pdf books he emailed me, have a good read of them cause they're great books....
I might see if I can post the pdfs in this thread next fortnight as my internet credit's getting a bit low....
One tip is to take your time with the finishing as you'll be sure to end up with a good result....
Here's a link to the website:
http://www.edroman.com/guitars/steinberger/parts.htm
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