Slide SG side project is done-ish. Close enough.

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Re: Mini guitar for my 3-year-old - Also Slide SG side proj.

Post by Rgand » Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:36 am

Thumbs-up to both. I like your choice of color for the headstock logo.

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Re: Mini guitar for my 3-year-old - Also Slide SG side proj.

Post by AWSchmit » Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:21 am

I added the decal and painted the fretboard "inlays" and "binding" to the slide SG. Liking it so far.

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And by painted, I meant with a paint brush...
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Re: Mini guitar for my 3-year-old - Also Slide SG side proj.

Post by jvin248 » Fri Jan 25, 2019 3:04 pm

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You need to find one of these. They are getting more rare but it's a regular Tele not a toy. It's the equivalent of putting a capo on the 3rd fret of a standard Tele.

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Re: Mini guitar for my 3-year-old - Also Slide SG side proj.

Post by Rgand » Fri Jan 25, 2019 3:10 pm

Looks good with the silver on it.

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Re: Mini guitar for my 3-year-old - Also Slide SG side proj.

Post by invisible man » Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:27 am

Very cool, I’ve been thinking of doing some customization on a Squier mini for my 4 year old son. I think I have some time, he’s not interested in the ukulele he has yet.
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Re: Mini guitar for my 3-year-old - Also Slide SG side proj.

Post by AWSchmit » Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:48 pm

Thinking of making an aluminum pickguard out of a sheet of aluminum I have for the slide SG. Mainly to cover the pickup routes so I can put different pickups in it, possibly a single P90 in the bridge. What do you think?

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EDIT: Not sure why every other picture in this thread is broken... I'll try to fix that eventually.
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Re: Mini guitar for my 3-year-old - Also Slide SG side proj.

Post by AWSchmit » Tue Oct 22, 2019 12:25 pm

In the last two days I took the mini guitar from hanging to let the lacquer cure to polished and then nearly done... Just need to finish cutting the nut, install a string tree, then set it up... Super stoked about it... Sorry for the shite pictures.. My phone sucks. I;ll take nice pics once it's done. Which should be fairly soon. But here's where it is now:

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The decal on the back is a custom waterslide decal printed with a design I made earlier this year of the West Virginia flag reimagines with the Flatwoods Monster and Mothman instead of coal miners. I also replaced the stock bridge that came with the kit with a cut down tele bridge and the pickup is a Peavey Super Ferrite from a T30. I;ve had it for years, and never had a reason to use it until now. Should sound cool.

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Re: Mini guitar for my 3-year-old - Also Slide SG side proj.

Post by Rgand » Tue Oct 22, 2019 8:53 pm

That's looking pretty cool. It polished out nicely.

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Re: Mini guitar for my 3-year-old - Also Slide SG side proj.

Post by countertext » Tue Oct 22, 2019 9:21 pm

Holy schmit that decal is rad.

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Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Wed Oct 23, 2019 3:23 am

Decal is rad, the guitar is rad... everything about that little guitar is amazing. I'm a short dude (though not THAT short) and I'd rock the hell out of that!
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Re: Mini guitar for my 3-year-old - Also Slide SG side proj.

Post by Amon 7.L » Wed Oct 23, 2019 4:22 am

Damn... now I want a mini guitar AND an SG. THAT SG.
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Re: Mini guitar for my 3-year-old - Also Slide SG side proj.

Post by VPO » Wed Oct 23, 2019 11:09 am

AWSchmit wrote:
Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:48 pm
Photoshopped pickguard:
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EDIT: Not sure why every other picture in this thread is broken... I'll try to fix that eventually.
This gonna look so sweet!

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Re: Mini guitar for my 3-year-old - Also Slide SG side proj.

Post by AWSchmit » Wed Mar 11, 2020 11:44 am

Not sure why all of my old pictures are now dead... But The Slide SG is finished... Kind of. Close enough. The switch is just a dummy to fill a hole.

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Re: Slide SG side project is done-ish. Close enough.

Post by AWSchmit » Wed Mar 11, 2020 12:05 pm

My old photos are hot links from Facebook, as are the new ones... Why the old ones won;t work, but the news will is beyond me. Sorry for not displaying the old pics.
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Re: Slide SG side project is done-ish. Close enough.

Post by Rgand » Wed Mar 11, 2020 1:00 pm

Man, that looks outstanding! Congrats on getting it finished up.

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