What's on your workbench right now?

[Landfish]

Thanks Mark!

Two coats of Tried and True danish oil and three coats of their varnish oil. In the house we’ve extensively been using tung oil on the cypress and I love the amber hue but for the guitar I wanted it a little less tinted.

It’s a soft wood and I know I could’ve used polyurethane to give it more protection but I’m not a rock star, and I wanted it to feel like wood. It has scratched already and will continue for sure. If in years to come it needs some tlc I know I can take it apart, sand over and refinish. It doesn’t match the super glossy neck but it doesn’t bother me.

In the future I’d be interested in building up more layers of the varnish like I’ve seen done in YouTube videos for tru-oil, or something like a French polish with shellac but not there yet.
Glad you like it,
Jerzy

[epizootics]

25.5" scale Mustang body, Fralin Blues Special strat pickups, Dillion Jazzmaster neck, mint green pickguard from CROSS_guitars and other jazzmaster hardware.

Dude, that is one lovely guitar. I don't usually like natural finishes but there is something instantly appealing to the piece you chose, wit the grain angling downward with a visible bit of curling on the upper horn. The contrast in textures is actually one of the fun bits you can play with when building a guitar, and definitely part of the appeal here.
Well done! And welcome to OSG

[ThePearDream]

What a stunning piece of wood! Marvelous job on the guitar (and doorway). The figuring on the upper horn, is the stuff you can get lost in.

[antisymmetric]

Well, I thought the wood was so groovy I decided to build a guitar out of it, too. I’ve tinkered around with necks, pickups and pots but this is my first body build.

Natural finishes are not usually my thing, but that is some beautiful wood put to a beautiful use! I love the way the grain kind of condenses and flows around into the top horn, really special.

[Fiddy]

My first refret ever... Got rid of some ugly scratches too. Sanded it down with a 9.5" radius block.

Undecided as to what type of glue I should use.

[Dr Tony Balls]

BALLS DECATHLON. Pretty straight-up clone of the old (~1980) Electro Harmonix Attack Decay tape reverse simulator. Power supply has been modified to run off 18VDC instead of wall voltages, but that's about it. All analog in all of its weirdness.

[sciuri]

25.5" scale Mustang body, Fralin Blues Special strat pickups, Dillion Jazzmaster neck, mint green pickguard from CROSS_guitars and other jazzmaster hardware.

Stunning! Amazingly well done, and I love that you went for a contoured Bilinda-stang type of body.

[ryland]

BALLS DECATHLON. Pretty straight-up clone of the old (~1980) Electro Harmonix Attack Decay tape reverse simulator. Power supply has been modified to run off 18VDC instead of wall voltages, but that's about it. All analog in all of its weirdness.

Love this perf build! I built one of these during the pandemic and was blown away by it. It's snuck into a song or two that I wrote at the time. So weird.

[Fiddy]

[kifla]

My Marauder II kit left the workbench a while ago...



and Mr. @caseyjamesprestwood turned it into this beauty Again!

[Insomnicide]

First coat of tung oil on the Huon Pine Jagbyrd. Deliberately taking my time with this. Will build up a few coats so it's a nice durable finish. Smells incredibly wonderful.

IMG20240125160347 by Rosie Brennan, on Flickr

[sal paradise]

Cheap bloody pickguard doesn’t fit

[GilmourD]

Cheap bloody pickguard doesn’t fit

I've discovered that Mustangs are where any semblance of even being close to standardized falls apart. LOL

What kind of body is that?

[sal paradise]

Cheap bloody pickguard doesn’t fit

I've discovered that Mustangs are where any semblance of even being close to standardized falls apart. LOL

What kind of body is that?

Yeah, this one was supposedly MIJ dimensions. Body is MG69

[GilmourD]

Cheap bloody pickguard doesn’t fit

I've discovered that Mustangs are where any semblance of even being close to standardized falls apart. LOL

What kind of body is that?

Yeah, this one was supposedly MIJ dimensions. Body is MG69

So, in looking stuff up the MG65 and the MG69 and MG65 have slightly different pickguard shapes.