Recent content by OttoMatick

I want to give a shout out about the Blacktop Stratocaster, especially the HH model. Big huge swimming pool route! Excellent for modification! Playing as well as any strat I have ever played the guitar is perfect from FMIC. The Mint Green pick guard looks very cool on the candy apple red...

I am so excited I had to share. All the way from Charlotte, NC 28262 (704) 547-1613 Guitar Center to me in Seattle, WA I am getting this one. Will maybe change the pickups to TVJones or Filtertrons? I think this will get me about as close to a Setzer 6120SSLVO as I am willing to spend...

Re: Homemade Hotrails Tele Here are some pics of her last days on the bench.

Finally finished her. I call her Cherry Ashley for the stain and wood. 2 coats vinyl sealer, 3 or 4 coats of nitrocelloulos lacquer, no grain fill for the woody grain look. I coil split the rails on the volume and tone, Neck(V) and Bridge(T). The Coil Split gives me HH, SS, SH and HS. I had...

Re: Tele Build 2 Progress - What do you think? More Cherry seems to work. Here I am with the first coat of vinyl sealer. I think one more coat of sealer then the grain fill. Then I can begin some clear coats of nitrocellulose lacquer. Is there any real talent in making a piece of Ash look...

Re: Where's a good place to buy a PINE Tele body? stewart macdonald... they even have knotty pine bodies... golden age is the manufacturer. This is a pic of a build I did with a Golden Age/Stewmac Pine body.

Do American made guitars hold more resale value than MIJ, MIM, MIK guitars? I got a new AE Dred, the Breedlove Atlas Stage Series D25/SRe Dreadnought. It is an excellent axe and I played it against everything including the new D28, a Vintage D18, Taylor 714, 814 and it sounds to par with those...

Re: Tele Build 2 Progress - What do you think? so dudes and dudettes check it out... i went with Chocklit_thunder's, MrTondo and wifeys suggestion and the whole body is now a nice cherry oil stain... and using sand paper, steel wool and stain as mentioned by pzaxtl, the sides and uper/lower...

Re: Tele Build 2 Progress - What do you think? If the top gets any color at all it will be with tinted nitro like this build here:

Watta ya think so far? Especially on the sides it is hard to make the wood accept the stain with the same consistency, looks darker in some spots and light in others… back looks good to me… Minwax Oil Cherry on swamp ash… So next is some nitro sealer, then color the top. Then clear...

Re: It's that time again. How many guitars do you own now? a few of the herd...

Re: If you were to own signature guitars, which would they be? Tim Armstrong G5191

Re: If you were to own signature guitars, which would they be? The EC Artist

Re: If you were to own signature guitars, which would they be? The James Burton Tele with strat and s1 switch wiring. with mother of peral tuning keys.

Before I start doing this and get out the old multi meter, I have a cab wiring question. I am modifying a Peavey 410E cab. I plan on replacing stock 16 ohm speakers with eminence barking blues speaker set which are 8 ohm speakers. The cab has a stereo mono switch that determines how the 2...