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forgot to mention, the finger board hasn't been attached yet.

So im not a fan of strat style trems so I picked up one just loke the one on my 72 deluxe tele. Here's the process.






not perfect string thru holes, my pin was a little loose but I'll let it slide this time.

I'm flat sanding and polishing the bottom the bridge to make better contact with the body.

DWIGHT CUSTOM 0001. Not my first body, just first in the SS style. Still Haven't picked out a name for this body style.
more to come later.

BTW, in some of those pics the center line looks a bit off, because it is. I use a laser center line and calipers.

wantsasupersonic wrote:Not much progress here, been busy but I think i made good progress replicating the blue sparkle paint.

Shitty cell pic.

What type of paint did you use to do that?

James wrote:

wantsasupersonic wrote:Not much progress here, been busy but I think i made good progress replicating the blue sparkle paint.

Shitty cell pic.

What type of paint did you use to do that?

That was an experiment with a blue base coat and hobby lobby glitter in the clear. It wasn't that great. it didn't look right and it also took a ton of clear to bury the flake. and took like 6 months to gas out enough to flat sand and polish. and then it dimpled/ orange peeled again.
this is kustom shop automotive poly flake, expensive stuff and slow shipping but worth it. I only use automotive paints and clear on metal flake now. poly clear I can do 3 coats a day and is 99% gassed out/ dry in a week, 2 weeks is better. click the pic. if you didnt see this earlier. it's a video.

Nice one, cheers. That looks great.

forgot to mention I plan on doing a few of these. pink sparkle, purple sparkle, black sparkle. maybe even a lefty or two.

a small Duo Sonic bridge would look good on it, too.
good job on the body through holes..

jamba72 wrote:a small Duo Sonic bridge would look good on it, too.
good job on the body through holes..

I like those but the look a little wide. Might not clear the Jack plate. Icluld always machine a different jackplate. Ill have to see.some dimensions and put down on paper to see how it looks.

Glad to have donated a control plate. Psyched to see the progress.
I just ordered a left-hand strat trem plate. My theory is that I will be able to replace the right handed one with a left handed one, screw down the plate to the body at the trem arm hole, and be able to remove the block and the springs etc. If it works, I can hard-tail all four of my normal Super-Sonics. Starting from scratch, I would do what you are doing, or maybe go with a left-handed Tele bridge like my coral one.

Question, how did you measure out and get the string through holes lined up perfect like that for the back? I'm going to be doing a SS clone sometime soon also with a string through bridge, and I wanna make sure I do them right this time.

Dude, that is cool. The Super Sonic was one of those guitars i said, ill get one later. and the price went crazy. which i had the money when they were new. Your Super Sonic-ish guitar is cool! keep posting pics.

James wrote:

wantsasupersonic wrote:Not much progress here, been busy but I think i made good progress replicating the blue sparkle paint.

Shitty cell pic.

What type of paint did you use to do that?

at most auto stores, they have a sparkle paint. Any auto touch up works great, its meant for being out side and sun.

http://www.duplicolor.com/

that brand is at most stores.

and this metal specks is close:

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/metalSpecks/

just a clear coat would make it shine.

its not as rollerskate jet boat as the original SS though....

wadeaminute wrote:Glad to have donated a control plate. Psyched to see the progress.
I just ordered a left-hand strat trem plate. My theory is that I will be able to replace the right handed one with a left handed one, screw down the plate to the body at the trem arm hole, and be able to remove the block and the springs etc. If it works, I can hard-tail all four of my normal Super-Sonics. Starting from scratch, I would do what you are doing, or maybe go with a left-handed Tele bridge like my coral one.

I hope that works. I thought of doing that with a strat once. tried it but it lest a 1/2" gap at the bottom of the trem. I suggest filling the trem route and start there. only issue would be that gap would end up as a bare piece of wood. refinish maybe? Wasn't it you that did a tele bridge conversion? that's about what i did except with a hard tail.

wantsasupersonic wrote:

wadeaminute wrote:Glad to have donated a control plate. Psyched to see the progress.
I just ordered a left-hand strat trem plate. My theory is that I will be able to replace the right handed one with a left handed one, screw down the plate to the body at the trem arm hole, and be able to remove the block and the springs etc. If it works, I can hard-tail all four of my normal Super-Sonics. Starting from scratch, I would do what you are doing, or maybe go with a left-handed Tele bridge like my coral one.

I hope that works. I thought of doing that with a strat once. tried it but it lest a 1/2" gap at the bottom of the trem. I suggest filling the trem route and start there. only issue would be that gap would end up as a bare piece of wood. refinish maybe? Wasn't it you that did a tele bridge conversion? that's about what i did except with a hard tail.

someone also makes a "tremno" i think that's what its called. it replaces one of the springs in the trem cavity and its adjustable, so you could tighten the eff out of it.

Pens wrote:Question, how did you measure out and get the string through holes lined up perfect like that for the back? I'm going to be doing a SS clone sometime soon also with a string through bridge, and I wanna make sure I do them right this time.

read this and other links in the thread. I took pic's but they were pretty dark and explaining it would take forever.

look here and follow the links posted in the thread. should help you out. youll also need access to a 6'' drill press, if you dont already. I use the pin method. read on and you'll see what I mean.
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-technic ... holes.html

broomhandle wrote:

James wrote:

wantsasupersonic wrote:Not much progress here, been busy but I think i made good progress replicating the blue sparkle paint.

Shitty cell pic.

What type of paint did you use to do that?

at most auto stores, they have a sparkle paint. Any auto touch up works great, its meant for being out side and sun.

http://www.duplicolor.com/

that brand is at most stores.

and this metal specks is close:

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/metalSpecks/

just a clear coat would make it shine.

its not as rollerskate jet boat as the original SS though....

But I want that Jet boat look. Ive used duplicolor in the past. its good stuff, but I like doing things the hard way.

Got to work on converting some grover klusons to leftys tonight.

you just have to pry the bent tabs that hold them together and pry them apart.

then just flip the tuner spiral gear and knob 180 degrees.

press them back together and ta-da, lefty tuner.
lefty on left and righty on right.

wadeaminute wrote:Glad to have donated a control plate. Psyched to see the progress.

I cant thank you enough. I started learning to machine metal so future projects wont be an issue.