The body just sat there and bothered me. It mocked me. Saying things like "your life is the way it is because you settle on garbage like me instead of taking the time to do things right"
God damn it.
I decided I didn't like it. I decided the way it looked...it just didn't look cool or original. I hated that it wasn't nitro-finished, I came to hate the wood grain, I just...I couldn't settle on it.
So I sold it on craigslist for $120, for those of you keeping track, it's a $5 profit, but not if you count what time is worth.
I went back on ebay, but just couldn't find a swamp ash body to my specs that I liked the finish on. So we're doing this instead.
It looks like this:
1.) Ash Wood - CHECK - This is now a SWAMP ASH body, which I had preferred originally.
2.) Routed - CHECK - Routed out for pickups, controls, and input jack
3.) Finished - FAIL - Some ass hole took this, sprayed one tiny coat of nitro paint on it, and purposely scuffed it up, so he could sell it for $20 more bucks on ebay as "reliced". You know how I feel about reliced shit. This unchecked aggression will not stand dude, I am refinishing the damn thing.
4.) Standard Neck Pocket - CHECK - This was easy, everything I looked at that wasn't a blank piece of wood was drilled to the standard size
5.) Not drilled for pickguard installation - FAIL - I have given up on this. I'm also realizing the longer I'm in my funk band, that with the constant right hand "Chicka-chicka" strumming, my pick guard actually serves a pretty damn good purpose.
2.) Routed - CHECK - Routed out for pickups, controls, and input jack
3.) Finished - FAIL - Some ass hole took this, sprayed one tiny coat of nitro paint on it, and purposely scuffed it up, so he could sell it for $20 more bucks on ebay as "reliced". You know how I feel about reliced shit. This unchecked aggression will not stand dude, I am refinishing the damn thing.
4.) Standard Neck Pocket - CHECK - This was easy, everything I looked at that wasn't a blank piece of wood was drilled to the standard size
5.) Not drilled for pickguard installation - FAIL - I have given up on this. I'm also realizing the longer I'm in my funk band, that with the constant right hand "Chicka-chicka" strumming, my pick guard actually serves a pretty damn good purpose.
The body itself seems ok, the only problem is that I basically purchased a body blank. I am going to have to refinish it myself.
God damn it.
This makes the whole project about 20 times harder.
Look what this ass hole did to this thing ON PURPOSE:
Doesn't that look like totally natural belt-buckle scuffing? No. It looks like some doorknob licker scraped a penny up and down the back of a barely painted guitar.
So I've sanded the whole thing down, this is what it looks like unmolested with a fake little paper pickguard on it:
The grain's not very pretty. I believe this is what you'd call "paint grade" wood. So I'm going to paint it.I'm going to go with a class butter-scotch yellow, with black bursting out to the sides. Kind of a bumble-bee looking type deal.
God damn it, I don't even have a garage to do this shit in.
...God damn it.
