Thanks. Just bought the wilkinson kit and found your channel. Very good finishing tips. My guitar will def have the wudtone cherry flamenco finish. Cheers.
A little wood finishing tip you should wear gloves on both hands when applying tints or stains as the oils from your skin can prevent absorption and cause blotching.
Thanks for recording this build, I'm enjoying it a lot! I must say though, when I first saw the colour I was very underwhelmed with it but now that you have finished the top coat WOW! What a difference - it really looks great! I can't wait to see the finished result so on to the next vid.
Nice work! Green velvety wonder! Waiting to see the final product. Altrought I would prefer a dark rosewood neck and no matching headstock, like the Nick Johnston signature. Wudtone also makes really good bridges. I have one on my guitar, very smooth. Nice shirt. Up the Irons!
Thanks for the inspiration. I did a deep green keda dye (in alcohol + water) with some blue black on the edges. Followed by wudtone satin on top. Looks great already, still needs a few more coats tho.
Nitrocellulose based paints were designed for aircraft use, and are still used on aircrafts, and while I didn't think I would like your color choice that satin green looks great.
What a cool project. Love the final color, looks fabulous! Great work Reed. I might have to ask you to build me a "Valley Arts" style 80's Luke strat one of these days. :-)
Wow, This is what i want to learn. Painting a guitar in an apartment is a pain in the @$%^@ . So, staining is the way for me. I hope I can learn from you how to build a guitar kit and stain like you did.
Staining provides a great finish. Just be aware that it highlights the flaws in your wood. This is especially true of sanding marks - if you have rough spots and sanding marks they will absorb more stain than smooth wood and be extremely visible. So, the coloring process is easier than painting, but preparation of the surface is even more important!
I think you should of put the clear coat on first, you might of had a more even look to the whole finish,instead of the light and dark spots, looks good though and is turning out better then I thought it would,great video for us amateurs. 🤣 👍
That is what is known as a "universal" or, if you don't like them, "swimming pool" route. In the days when electric guitars were routed out on pin routers (powerful and dangerous machines) instead of CNC machines it was a way of easily making a body that could accommodate humbuckers and single coils in any desired configuration with a lot less effort. Honestly, there is no reason to do it in the 21st century, and I was really surprised to see a kit routed this way. As for the pickguard, it is still anchored at 12 points around the edge, and a pickguard is not a large piece of material. If you were dealing with something with more surface area it probably would make more of a difference. While I'm sure that in absolute terms the pickguard vibrates more in the middle, I've never noticed it to make a difference in a how a guitar sounds or plays. Your mileage may vary and all that.
@@mancaveguitarpedalmania4008 Thankyou so much, I even got a slight history lesson. Talk about learning something new every day. keep up the great content.
No and it makes the guitar versatile! Single coils, p 90's, humbuckers, filtertrons, gold foils, lip sticks! You can load multiple pick guards ready to switch out.
@@mancaveguitarpedalmania4008 Actually there is a reason for a smugglers (that's what we've been calling it since the 70's) route it allows for any and all pups, wiring and pots/switches to fit with ease.
Thanks. Just bought the wilkinson kit and found your channel. Very good finishing tips. My guitar will def have the wudtone cherry flamenco finish. Cheers.
Thanks for sharing this build with us, I have made a few StewMac kits, I might try one of these next!
A little wood finishing tip you should wear gloves on both hands when applying tints or stains as the oils from your skin can prevent absorption and cause blotching.
Love the Dolomite t-shirt
Thanks for recording this build, I'm enjoying it a lot!
I must say though, when I first saw the colour I was very underwhelmed with it but now that you have finished the top coat WOW! What a difference - it really looks great! I can't wait to see the finished result so on to the next vid.
Love guitars love what your doing I hope you post more guitar build videos I wish this video got more popular because it should
I love the Brave New World shirt. Possibly my favorite Maiden album with my favorite Maiden song, The Thin Line Between Love and Hate.
Nice work! Green velvety wonder! Waiting to see the final product. Altrought I would prefer a dark rosewood neck and no matching headstock, like the Nick Johnston signature.
Wudtone also makes really good bridges. I have one on my guitar, very smooth.
Nice shirt. Up the Irons!
Thanks for the inspiration. I did a deep green keda dye (in alcohol + water) with some blue black on the edges. Followed by wudtone satin on top. Looks great already, still needs a few more coats tho.
Nitrocellulose based paints were designed for aircraft use, and are still used on aircrafts, and while I didn't think I would like your color choice that satin green looks great.
Looks great.
What a cool project. Love the final color, looks fabulous! Great work Reed. I might have to ask you to build me a "Valley Arts" style 80's Luke strat one of these days. :-)
Looks great man!
beautiful
The ground usually goes through the slot of the tremolo system and ground it to the claw
Wow, This is what i want to learn. Painting a guitar in an apartment is a pain in the @$%^@ . So, staining is the way for me.
I hope I can learn from you how to build a guitar kit and stain like you did.
Staining provides a great finish. Just be aware that it highlights the flaws in your wood. This is especially true of sanding marks - if you have rough spots and sanding marks they will absorb more stain than smooth wood and be extremely visible. So, the coloring process is easier than painting, but preparation of the surface is even more important!
@@mancaveguitarpedalmania4008 I'll keep that in mind. Will try to get some stains and practice first. Thanks Reed!
Use a wood conditioner before you stain and it wont come out blotchy.
@@musicbill Interesting. I have no experience with wood conditioner, but I'll look into it. Thanks for the tip.
this neck will look like it has a aged nitro finish. I like it!
Put the lamp neck on it !! Its nice and dark.
Dude.. what colour are your walls? Seafoam Green? Surf Green?
Two things - clearly, you are actually Joe Elliot. And 2nd, where did you get that guitar mounting arm? I have to have one of those.
Colour is subjective, but that green looks like military outdoor furniture.
Actually a green like the ones in his walls would have looked great and very 50's
I think you should of put the clear coat on first, you might of had a more even look to the whole finish,instead of the light and dark spots, looks good though and is turning out better then I thought it would,great video for us amateurs. 🤣 👍
Use blue fine line tape. You can get it at automotive paint store.
body is blotchy... sanding sealer would have helped with that or use a gel stain
This is like watching paint dry!! Oh wait!!
Do you think an Evertune would fit in there ?
I'd love to be able to answer this question, but I have no experience with the Evertune system.
Heck no Evertune is a very large rout. There is no such thing as dropping an Evertune in a guitar
Why is the pickup cavity so large? does that affect pickgaurd stability?
That is what is known as a "universal" or, if you don't like them, "swimming pool" route. In the days when electric guitars were routed out on pin routers (powerful and dangerous machines) instead of CNC machines it was a way of easily making a body that could accommodate humbuckers and single coils in any desired configuration with a lot less effort. Honestly, there is no reason to do it in the 21st century, and I was really surprised to see a kit routed this way.
As for the pickguard, it is still anchored at 12 points around the edge, and a pickguard is not a large piece of material. If you were dealing with something with more surface area it probably would make more of a difference. While I'm sure that in absolute terms the pickguard vibrates more in the middle, I've never noticed it to make a difference in a how a guitar sounds or plays. Your mileage may vary and all that.
@@mancaveguitarpedalmania4008 Thankyou so much, I even got a slight history lesson. Talk about learning something new every day. keep up the great content.
No and it makes the guitar versatile! Single coils, p 90's, humbuckers, filtertrons, gold foils, lip sticks! You can load multiple pick guards ready to switch out.
@@mancaveguitarpedalmania4008 Actually there is a reason for a smugglers (that's what we've been calling it since the 70's) route it allows for any and all pups, wiring and pots/switches to fit with ease.
Looks a little like army-issue... maybe spray-stencil the headstock?
Use that stuff fast, It dries in the bottles very quickly.
Tape is not the perfect solution? It's the only solution if you use the right tape.
You look just like Joe Elliott.
Ground wire hole come with the 500.00 kits!!!!
Fucking up a guitar 101. He didn't paint it because there were no numbers on the body to tell him what colors it should be.
Hard to believe that you needed to edit that inane comment.
I guess that is F#@king up a comment - Master class.
You could have save a hundred and fifty bucks on the stew mac painter thing with a 1 x 2 and 4 screws
Sounds like he's saying tent instead of tint
Looks like total crap.
Not green! Please! Wood is not green. Unless you live in Arizona.