Ua D Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Bought this as a kit a little over a year ago. Finally finished it up a couple weeks back. Between a sprained thumb and crap weather, I’m just sitting on the couch so I thought I’d share this. Got a custom junior kit from Precision guitars. Awesome kits with quality wood and great detail Plain maple capped mahogany body with maple neck and ebony board Schaller tuners (from Caddie if I remember correctly) duncan custom bridge and jazz neck Faber wraparound compensated bridge Finished it off with tru oil since I could do it inside during the wet winter. Lost count but somewhere between 20-25 coats. Still an extremely thin finish. I’ll just go witht nitro next time A bit easier in my experience than trying to get gloss from the tru oil . I ended up sanding back an re-staining a few times Still not a professional level finish but good enough for me . Also rocks like a mofo. Extremely happy with the the end result. Wish I had thought to ask for it with just 2 controls though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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G Man Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Wow, that came out great. Nice work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punkavenger Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Great job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_S Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 That is cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BubbaVO Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Sweet! Good work outta ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottcald Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Looks awesome, nice work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjamiam Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Hell of a job! Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ua D Posted February 19, 2018 Author Share Posted February 19, 2018 Thanks all. I am enjoying it quite a bit, but it does make me really appreciate the real craftsmen who build great guitars like my studio custom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punkavenger Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Now I want to try a kit ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialk Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Nice job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PS4 FTW Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Looks great! I've been wanting to order a kit from Precision for a while. How much sanding did you have to do prior to finishing? How was the neck out of the box? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ua D Posted February 19, 2018 Author Share Posted February 19, 2018 I would rate the kit as great. Neck was a perfect fit out of the box. It was pretty well sanded out of the box. I will be ordering another kit from them for sure. All the flaws I can see on the guitar now that it is done, were caused by my poor handling and amateur finishing skills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ua D Posted February 19, 2018 Author Share Posted February 19, 2018 Also the amount of sanding I did before finishing was mostly needed because of grain filling and staining the top. So out of the box it wouldn’t need anything if you were gonna leave it open pored and not use dye, but the doing these other steps required quite a bit of sanding. The grain filler needed to be knocked down smooth, and the dye process caused some lifted wood grain that had to be sanded smooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixesandsevens Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Nice! Congrats on the N-homebuilt-GD! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTMN Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 Looks like time well spent. Enjoy it well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Submariner85 Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 Looks great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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