Butterscotch Blonde

[Lerlo]

Hi,
Finally done with the guitar.
I used Carbots Liming Stain & Varnish with watsons golden teak and cedar stains. Its a polyurethane finish.
The 8 hour drying time and runniness made it real tough for me.
I had to redo the paint work 3 times to get the finish to look decent.
Body is a warmoth 2 piece swamp ash and neck was finished with tru-oil.
First diy guitar, am quite proud of it.
Thanks for the help.

[floody_85]

Good job! Looks great

[_fly_]

Looks good and good colour.
How does it play?

[Lerlo]

Thanks for the compliments guys.

Its getting a little fret buzz even with 1.5mm of action at 12th fret.
The frets are untouched and I reckon I need to level and dress them.
Apart from that, the bridge sounds bright and twangy like a tele, the neck pu is a dimarzio mini and it sounds awesome, roll the tone down 1/4 and you get a nice jazzy tone.

[Blackstar1099]

Very nice! Perfect amount of that beautiful ash grain showing through. Congrats.

[old_picker]

bonzer mate you done a great job there
bet that firebird pickup sounds real nice

btw you will be lucky if you ever find a neck you can plug straight in without having to do a level, crown and polish
good idea to put that on the job list as part of the build so when you do finally put it together everything is done and dusted