Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:26 pm

Neck is pretty much done!

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Mon Apr 29, 2024 5:53 am

Another completely random guitar mashup idea.

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Post by finboy » Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:15 am

Good choice of eras there

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by smjenkins » Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:01 pm

CROSS_guitars wrote:
Mon Apr 29, 2024 5:53 am
Another completely random guitar mashup idea.

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The Broncuar rides!

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:50 pm

Well, it's a Squier Musicmaster crossed with a Jag stang.
Both are products of circa '96. So I guess it could be called the Ninety-Six?

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by JVG » Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:24 am

CROSS_guitars wrote:
Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:26 pm
Neck is pretty much done!

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That is a piece of art. Love the shade of red on the front, too.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:26 am

Thank you!

I had to recess the back of the headstock for the tuners to be long enough.
I haven't seen this done before. It worked out quite well.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by javier-san » Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:48 pm

CROSS_guitars wrote:
Mon Apr 29, 2024 5:53 am
Another completely random guitar mashup idea.

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a WRHB would look/sound dope... :?

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by JVG » Fri May 03, 2024 1:06 am

CROSS_guitars wrote:
Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:26 am
Thank you!

I had to recess the back of the headstock for the tuners to be long enough.
I haven't seen this done before. It worked out quite well.
The recess looks great, and adds to the overall design.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Fri May 03, 2024 2:24 am

I managed to get a few coats of paint on today.
It's been a cold week but there was some sunshine.
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The alder grain shows through a lot clearer in person.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by GilmourD » Fri May 03, 2024 4:10 am

CROSS_guitars wrote:
Fri May 03, 2024 2:24 am
I managed to get a few coats of paint on today.
It's been a cold week but there was some sunshine.
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The alder grain shows through a lot clearer in person.
I imagine that's going to be intentionally translucent?

I'm waiting for it to be a little more consistently warm (New Jersey seems to like giving us winter AND summer in the same day lately) before I start painting the bodies myself.

That looks super even on the top surface. Would I be correct that you're laying on as little as possible with each coat? Would your advice for me to achieve the same to be to just be patient?

Yes, I know they're leading questions but I haven't had much coffee yet and the brain hasn't fully booted up. :wacko:

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by Flurko » Fri May 03, 2024 4:58 am

Always a big love from me for the half regular/half slotted headstock. I think Wire Instruments (Earnie Bailey, Nirvana tech IIRC) does something similar and I always dug it :

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Fri May 03, 2024 4:01 pm

GilmourD wrote:
Fri May 03, 2024 4:10 am
CROSS_guitars wrote:
Fri May 03, 2024 2:24 am
I imagine that's going to be intentionally translucent?

I'm waiting for it to be a little more consistently warm (New Jersey seems to like giving us winter AND summer in the same day lately) before I start painting the bodies myself.

That looks super even on the top surface. Would I be correct that you're laying on as little as possible with each coat? Would your advice for me to achieve the same to be to just be patient?

Yes, I know they're leading questions but I haven't had much coffee yet and the brain hasn't fully booted up. :wacko:
Yeah, the paint I bought is the transparent red that is meant for sunburst finishes.
But it is also quite opaque. So the grain will be subtle.
I only put 2 coats of red on it, the rest will just be built up layers of gloss clear.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Fri May 03, 2024 10:47 pm

A quick mockup between coats..

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Thu May 09, 2024 7:44 pm

It's all done and wired up.
Still needs the usual tweaking. But it sounds great. The kill switch isn't wired in because they sent me the wrong one.
It does the opposite. It only works when the button is pushed :fp:

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