ngd!! well body at least!

[loversmoon]

Turns out I love the color. Reranch Vintage Cream. cant decide if i wanna go with Gold hardware or not. Not sure how it will look. A bit nervous about drillin holes for the tremolo too..This is my first build. Live and learn ..trial and error. measure measure measure.

[AlexR]

Re: ngd!! well body at least!

Gold might look a bit like 'all the same colour' with that body.

[Dr. Vegetable]

Re: ngd!! well body at least!

Gold might look a bit like 'all the same colour' with that body.

+1.

The yellow goes well with the tortoise shell. I agree that gold might be a bit much. Chrome, or maybe black hardware?

[loversmoon]

Re: ngd!! well body at least!

hmm hadnt thought of black hardware. that might look pretty sick.

[Chris of Arabia]

Re: ngd!! well body at least!

I think black would work well with that.

[StratFreak]

Re: ngd!! well body at least!

http://www.fender.com/en-CA/community/guitarbuilder/

Go nuts!

[loversmoon]

Re: ngd!! well body at least!

http://www.fender.com/en-CA/community/guitarbuilder/

Go nuts!

ahhh thanks!!

[Chris of Arabia]

Re: ngd!! well body at least!

Something like this then



They didn't have an option for a standard black trem, which is why there's a fixed one on there.

[Dr. Vegetable]

Re: ngd!! well body at least!

A bit nervous about drillin holes for the tremolo too..This is my first build. Live and learn ..trial and error. measure measure measure.

Measure carefully, always.

But with the tremolo it probably isn't the end of the world if you don't get it right the first time. I'm sitting here today putting a strat together for a friend. The holes for the new trem don't line up with the holes from the one that I took off. I just glued some toothpicks into the old holes, and am waiting for it to dry before I cut them off and sand them down flush. It should be almost undetectable when I'm done, but it will all be underneath the tremolo plate anyway. I'm only even bothering to fill them because the new holes will be drilled very close to where the old ones were.

Watching glue dry on a stormy day. What fun!

Yeah, the black hardware looks like the way to go, assuming that it looks as good on the tortoise...

[loversmoon]

Re: ngd!! well body at least!

change that to a tort pickguard and a rosewood neck. Id do it and post it but i cant figure out how to save the pic from the fender builder.

[Chris of Arabia]

Re: ngd!! well body at least!

Like this?



Black hardware didn't look right, so I went with chrome

[loversmoon]

Re: ngd!! well body at least!

yes . thanks. everytime i save it it wont let me share it. Idk maybe something with my browser. thats my game plan on how i would like this thing to come out. Im building this strat in memory of my mother whom I lost in 08 to cancer. Hopefully in the end it will look something like this:

[Chris of Arabia]

Re: ngd!! well body at least!

I just took a screenshot, then pasted it into Photoshop, but Paint would have done just as well for this. Then uploaded to my 'junk' Flickr account.

[loversmoon]

Re: ngd!! well body at least!

I stole it from where u posted it. put it in paint and then did what i wanted with the Fleur de lis. I think it looks decent in pic. pray it comes out that good in the end. Btw thanks!!

[CTN]

Re: ngd!! well body at least!

looks nice man, i dig the tortoiseshell pg with that colour.