Super Sonic guitar build - Part 9

First coat of glitter! It is like fabulous camouflage. It is hiding everything. You can see on the tae that the glitter coats didn't really add much color just sparkle.

Krylon Glitter Blast Silver

Adding some clear and it looks great. I picked photos that do not show the big run in the clear too much.

Little bit of run in the clear

Time to sand from 220 grit to 6000 grit

Sanding out the runs

looks amazing

Bought a piece of stainless steel and used my jigsaw upside down to cut it. This was very difficult. 

Some basic sanding and filing.

Sanded the heck out of it to get all the marks out and drilled the holes.

I bought the one on the right to use as a reference. The one on the left is my first try. Too big.

All polished up. Looks pretty pro.

Tried to cut a pickguard from a template.

Pickguard cut out from a template I made. It needed to be cleaned up a bit. I added two screws to register it to the body. Not sure how to cut out the pickups.

I drilled a hole where I knew the pickup would go and used a right angle pick to scratch the outline to the bottom of the guard. Then I used a small sander drum thing to sand to the line. It worked great!

First one done. You can see where I drilled a pilot hole and used a O-ring puller pick to scratch the underside of the cavity to use as a reference.

Again, couldn't figure out how to bevel the edge so I used the sander again. This also worked really well.

Test fit. I also copper shielded the routed body.  I ended up having to take it all to widen all the cut outs. 

Test fitting the bushings. Used a drill press to push with the screwdriver. Not sure how else to do this.

Vintage style Fender tuners like the original.

Sprayed the neck with aged clear from StewMac. Looks sooo good.

Bought some custom headstock decals from Etsy. These came out great.

This was harder than I thought with the curve. The edges came up a bit.

I had to spray a ton of clear on it to hide the decale edges

Copper lined the cavities because why not

Preview before it is complete,  I dont have pics but I had to cut out the body routes because everything was too tight. I also had to increase the depth of the neck pocket after they tried to set it up. The next was too high to set up.

Click here to see the finished guitar!