Gorgeous, both of them. Makes me miss my reissue. Congrats!

Who made the banners out of pictures in this thread? :D

I put off this project for a while in favor of others. But after fixing the fingertip-shredding fret ends, and giving it a bit of a shim, it plays really well. Unsurprisingly though, the pickups are underwhelming. I remembered I have another ...

No experience with the stud mount one, but I have a top mount one and it works well enough. Feels like a Bigsby but a bit...looser? I imagine due to less string tension since they don't wrap around.

So I bought a Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo to travel with, thinking hey it has potential for what some people call a toy, and am actually having unexpectedly silly amounts of fun with it. The filters are quite usable and inspire creativity. I probably will only print like 1/4 of what I take, but having ...

Not gonna disagree but IMO everyone who cares about that probably buys Squier nowadays anyway. They've been far more interesting for many years. As for that new '51 style thing, worst thing about it is it's not a '51 so it's not hardtail. The sunburst one would look classy if you change the white ...

This thing came loaded with one of those and I can confirm it's pretty good. The only thing I don't like is that the arm sticks up at like a 45 degree angle. I can't remember if that's just how Bigsby-style trems are? Could probably change that with a shorter spring...but the one it comes with is ...

Yeah those are great! I see they that also comes in 135, and it's relatively cheap at that, so now I want to try it. I used to love Kodak Portra 800 but I'm certainly not paying the price that commands nowadays. Anyway, where do you yous guys get film developed? I have a couple rolls I need ...

Congrats! Black pickguard looks great. I have the J bass version of this and that was the first thing I changed, hah. Hope you get lots of good use out of it!

Dillon, all your pics say "content not viewable in your region", probably Imgur. Can you repost as attachments?

Ah yes, I forgot about that. Fixed. I don't normally use the uploader as that means full size photos. But I also forgot that it resizes to fit the screen.

Started looking at it ...

I don’t know how Amazon’s algorithms for recommending things work, but it sure is good about finding things it knows I don't need but won't resist. Like this.

I can’t believe you can buy this brand new for that price ($164 US). It could use some fret dressing (edges are rough) and a good setup ...

Edit: I got an email saying this was a pricing error. The website has now been updated to show the correct price. Supposedly I'll still get my order, but I've read that other people got a different email saying the order was cancelled.

PSA for those in the US, Levy's is clearing out a handful of ...

Well, it seems they sold out, so I guess now you don't have to decide to pick one up or not :? Anyway, I started working on smoothing out the body. I intended to only do that for the spots that I felt really needed it, but as I got started I decided ehhh, might as well do it rigth. Pictures don’t ...

Well, it came, and for the money, I'm not at all disappointed. It even includes strings :lol: Naturally the electronics and hardware are about as cheap as possible, but the build quality is pretty solid. My only complaint is that I wanted to stain it instead of paint it, but probably won't, seeing ...

PSA for those in the US: Stew Mac has a couple complete JM/Jag style kits on sale for $100. I bought this one, so this is sort of a placeholder thread for now. A simple, hardtail offset with a mahogany body and a 24 9/16” scale (weird number but I like it) for that price was just too enticing for me ...

Wow, a Terminator! That was my first "real" guitar, but I think mine might have been an even shorter scale. Since you're not all that interested in working on it, if you want to sell it, let me know (although the cost of shipping might be as much as it's worth :lol:)

Anyway, I'm gonna vote St ...

^ I don't get the reference but that made me chuckle anyway

Love the color you chose. This is shaping up to be a real beauty.

Been a while...life has been kinda strange, and in a way that includes this thing's story.

Not long after my last post, I learned that the former mentor I mentioned had passed away unexpectedly. I'm not in touch with any of his family, so I don't even know what happened. It's bizarre to think that ...

Haha, I don't think I was anticipating the swimming pool route to be quite so swimming pooley.

:lol: As I recall, from the factory it was routed only for the bridge pickup. I had no templates or anything else to do a proper route for a middle or neck pickup. I'm convinced the hole exposing the ...

What kinda bucker would you give it, if you find the guard? I’d be tempted to do one of those P90 style or a Surf 90 / Dream 90 maybe.

I was thinking something with a split pole WRHB look. And I found the original pickguard. But...

I took this one off and remembered, oh hell, to make that fit ...

The "O" for "old", and not just because it's old. I'm getting my old guitar. Story time.

As a kid just getting into working on guitars, a mentor had a high end Ibanez Roadstar II. I loved it. My parents knew that, and I got one as a surprise Christmas gift.

It is---or at least was---an RS110 ...