Starcaster Build (completed)

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Sat Aug 17, 2013 3:49 pm

CROSS_guitars wrote:

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Sat Aug 17, 2013 10:55 pm

Untitled by punkacc9, on Flickr

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:14 am

I'm thinking of ocean turquoise metallic for this because I love an aged lake placid blue.

George · Post by **George** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:17 am

that routing and neatness of the thing is just

wow

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 11:07 am

You guys approve of the back route? I wanted to make it easier for wiring.

Chris Fleming · Post by **Chris Fleming** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 11:46 am

Not got a major problem with them, and when it's as neat as that even less so. Would be nice if you had a matching wooden cover plate for it, sprayed the same as the body?

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 11:50 am

Chris Fleming wrote:Not got a major problem with them, and when it's as neat as that even less so. Would be nice if you had a matching wooden cover plate for it, sprayed the same as the body?

Thought about that. Possibly.

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 8:42 am

CROSS_guitars wrote:Ok. I'm getting some more progress done with this neck.
I replaced the white dots with nicer slighter bigger pearl dots.

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 8:43 am

CROSS_guitars wrote:

MattK · Post by **MattK** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 12:23 pm

That's a fuller neck profile than I am used to.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 12:28 pm

MatthewK wrote:That's a fuller neck profile than I am used to.

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 12:31 pm

Didn't I tell you? I'm making it a slide guitar. Ha. He has to do the back still. Im going for a slight v shape.

cur · Post by **cur** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 2:13 pm

I totally would have shaped the headstock before binding and fretting.

Looks nice and the guy is doing a great job on it.

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 2:19 pm

He's done a starcaster headstock before but this is his first one from scratch and with binding I think.

Chris Fleming · Post by **Chris Fleming** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 7:17 pm

like the big dots

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 12:15 pm

CROSS_guitars wrote:I made it a bit deeper.
this is about as much as I'm comfortable taking off it.
It's pretty damn neat, if I say so myself.

the original has more of a concave. But it's nearly impossible for me to recreate that completely.
Mine is done a lot more like the Bilt heads.

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 12:15 pm

CROSS_guitars wrote:I've also done most of the shaping of the back of the neck.
I used a spoke shave and electric sanders.
Punkacc9 wants a 'V' profile. But it turned out to be more of a standard thin neck.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 8:38 pm

So he didn't do the headstock right OR do the neck carve you asked for.... Well worth the money then.

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 11:33 pm

Thomas wrote:So he didn't do the headstock right OR do the neck carve you asked for.... Well worth the money then.

It's alright. He's new to building necks and this is his first starcaster neck. And I think it is coming out awesomely. He is also wayyyyy cheaper than the other people I asked to build a starcaster neck. I told him a v profile or a thin profile. So either or doesn't matter. As for the swoop. That doesn't bother me. If I really want it more concave ill have cooterfinger do it. This is the same way as built and stereordinary does it.

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 11:46 pm

Untitled by punkacc9, on Flickr