Man, what an Odissey! I would have suggested to make the transfer on a separate piece of wood, and then inlay it in... But you fought on to the end, and managed to preserve the body, despite all the attempts. I would not have had yr pacience. Incidently, when I did the GGBO2022, one of the competitors, a tattoo artist called Vicent Blard did some really cool artwork, painted directly on the body, and then locked in with varnish:
O collab would be amazing. Maybe something we can raffle off to the Custom Forge community & raise funds. Having said that there may be some complicated logistics, as I live in Rio de Janeiro.
I absolutely love your carved top in build #2. I took part in the GGBO2022 last year, and that top/shape is easily as good as anything on there. The string stops not being in a straight line is also a really great idea.
And then I did this micro-tele, complete with the correct electronics. I used scraps of wood from previous builds, and enhanced some of the joins with wood veneer.
I recently did a micro-telecaster and a micro-les paul. Basically a full-sized headless neck, with the smallest possible body, to make a travel guitar.
Fantastic body shape. Love the neck join & carving of the top. The body shape is amazing. The next step is for you to try your hand at spray-on paints. I've had some amazing results, recently, especially with candy-style paint jobs.
Here are a few of my recent projects:
12-stringer electro-acoustic build:
I think it's worth making a backup of the game. Also always playing off-line. Eventually anyone who plays from Steam might wind up having to run a cracked version of Rocksmith 2014 (if there's one for PC). Not my first choice, but Ubisoft will have bought it on themselves. They also announced that they were going to start to pull DLCs with expired licenses. Has anyone had a DLC dissappear from their game? I know the Allman Brothers "Jessica" is no longer available for purchase...
I have now finished and published the last missing track for Quadrophenia. These are the tracks I have done and made available since September/2021:
Quadrophenia
Cut My Hair
I'm One
The Dirty Jobs
Is It In My Head?
I've Had Enough (with JamesPrestonUK's kind help)
Drowned
Bell Boy
Dr. Jimmy
The Rock.
A true labor of love. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
Very nice job with fret dressing. Those ends are really smooth and round. The drilling of the headstock is a real pain. Tear-out is really difficult to evoid, no matter how much care you take. Everything is looking really nice!
To remove superglued frets, you just need to use superglue remover. It will dissolve cyanoacrylate enough for you to pull out the frets w/out too much damage to the fretboard. But if you're using stainless frets you probably will never have to do it, as they're virtually indistructable.