Johnny Jr Project/Build

[Wattage]

Had a friend make me a Ventures II/Johnny Ramone style body routed and drilled ala a Junior hence Johnny Jr.

Alder body and a maple neck with some kind of rosewood adjacent fretboard.

It's been sitting here for a while mostly out of laziness but I decided to start on it. Shouldn't take a whole lot to put it together. Doing a very rat rod finish out on it. Oil finish on the neck with a painted headstock and a Lil Daddy Roth rattlebomb finish. Probably 2k clear but maybe lacquer we'll see?

Well here it is naked anyways

 

[Wattage]

well since I have you all on the edge of your seats lol

A bit of an update

Have a set of Wilkinson white button tuners, a good nut blank and a GFS P90 that I found in the parts bin. Using 500k pots and a .022 OD cap, a Switchcraft jack and Planet Waves strap pins. I also have a Faber compensated tailpiece that I am hoping will work, posts are offset enough I might use a regular tailpiece, I also have a Wilkinson wraparound here if I need it.

Just need a little more finishing work on it but you can get the general idea. I used Lil Daddy Roth Avalanche White base and Jazz Berry Pink Vunderbomb with Silver Flake as well.

 

[Mincer]

Wow, that is one hell of a color!

 

[ehdwuld]

Had a friend make me a Ventures II/Johnny Ramone style body routed and drilled ala a Junior hence Johnny Jr.

Alder body and a maple neck with some kind of rosewood adjacent fretboard.

It's been sitting here for a while mostly out of laziness but I decided to start on it. Shouldn't take a whole lot to put it together. Doing a very rat rod finish out on it. Oil finish on the neck with a painted headstock and a Lil Daddy Roth rattlebomb finish. Probably 2k clear but maybe lacquer we'll see?

Well here it is naked anyways


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You got some pretty wood there young man

 

[Wattage]

Wow, that is one hell of a color!

I call it Bubblegum Junkie lol

 

[Wattage]

Gotta wire it up and make a few tweaks

 

[jeremy]

nice! is the open hole for the jack? looks like a rock machine to me

 

[Chistopher]

How did you do the burst? I know there are few different techniques people use

 

[Wattage]

nice! is the open hole for the jack? looks like a rock machine to me

The Rock-iest lol

Jay Jay French will hunt me down for it

And yes that is for the jack, it is wired up now

 

[Wattage]

How did you do the burst? I know there are few different techniques people use

Well it's very sophisticated the way I do it.

I see what paint I have left and I keep going til I run out

I thought I had more of the Jazz Berry but it was a mostly an empty can. So I did the sides and let that spray over the top edges, then I used the little I had left to do the burst worthy of the finest of Sears & Roebuck bursts. It was a fairly tight spray pattern so I just sprayed towards the outer edge and it worked fairly well.

 

[Wattage]

I got it playing pretty well, the nut I wanted to use had a crack in it so I am just using a cheapy off something I probably upgraded at some point, I am sure I will get something better.

The GFS P90 is a little brighter than I remembered, or this guitar is very bright, IDK yet.

Ended up using a .047 cap, has more roll off than I'll ever use so maybe I'll put a .022 in it eventually. For now I just have to play and see what needs tweaking but it's not bad at all.

Just a quick clip for yo Mama

 

[Snake Aces]

Sweet. Talk about two in the pink...

 

[Wattage]

Too much? I can do more if it's not

A few little details added - the backplate and the truss rod cover were cut from an old Tele Custom guard that was all kinds of screwed up

Re-use/Recycle fellas