I fixed up my friend’s guitar for him. It came out really cool. Check it out!
See the guitar here!
Category: Guitars
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Teenycaster Assembly
Today, I assembled the Teenycaster. It went together good and looks cool as hell.im having a problem with intonation unfortunately so I can’t play it right now.
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Body Paint and Clear
I painted the body today. I wanted to make it blue using a dye, but it didn’t work out good with the mahogany body. So back to my fallback plan: cherry red lacquer left over from the Less Paul.
I also applied some tung oil finish, which I really really like. It’s easier to apply than wipe on polyurethane, and it looks better.
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Headstock Decal
It’s time to put the logo on the Teenycaster headstock. I put a couple coats of tung oil on the neck and let it sit overnight.
I downloaded a font named Strato that mimics the Fender script logo and fired up Photoshop. I used the Calibri font for the TEENYCASTER part. This is what I came up with.
Print that out a billion times on waterslide paper and I’m good to go.
The end result looks great!
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Seal Coat
Today I sanded off the grain filler and applied a few cards of vinyl sealer. This is what the parts look like now.
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Teenycaster Grain Fill
I filled the grain on the Teenycaster neck and body today. I used the stewmac mahogany colored grain filler. I’m going to leave the neck natural color and dye the body blue. I’m going to finish the neck and body with Tung Oil.
The green filler is a powder that you mix with water and slather all over the wood.
It dries pretty quickly, and then you sand it down to remove most of it. All that’s left is little pockets inside of the grain.
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Faker Teenycaster
So I haven’t finished my Less Paul build yet, so what better time to start another guitar kit build!
This one is a travel size Telecaster style guitar. I bought the kit from Stew Mac and this one is way nicer than my Les Paul kit. The electronics are mostly wired (the hard parts at least) and the pickups installed. I’m not gonna go crazy with the paint job on this one.
Here are some pics I stole from the stewmac website.
The body and neck are mahogany, and the fretboard is some kinda fake rosewood.
Today I sanded the body and neck. Next step is filling the grain with filler so it will be smoother.
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Lotsa Lacquer
I added a bunch more lacquer last weekend. It’s much cooler looking now.
I’m gonna do some polishing this weekend to make it moar shinierest.
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Clear Lacquer on the Back
I put about 8 more coats of clear lacquer on the back where I repaired the finish. Now that’s done. The picture looks the same as last weekend so I didn’t take any.
One thing I noticed is where the new clear lacquer overlapped with the original clear it’s much shinier and I like it. I have an extra can of clear and I think I’m put of the woods (finish wise) so I’m going to add that can of clear to the front of the guitar to make it shinier.
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Repainting and Band Aid
During the last week I fixed the red lacquer on the back and sides of the guitar that was ruined when I steamed the neck loose. It came out pretty good, but you can definitely see the scar. Pictures are below.
Speaking of scars… I decided my lacquer repair boo boo needs a band aid to make it better.
I went to Michael’s and bought some water slide paper that you can print on with an ink jet printer. It makes the little decals that you soak in water and slide on the object.
The base decal material is clear and common house printers are meant to print on material with a white background. My decal didn’t look good on a sweet red guitar.
Amazon to the rescue! I bought some more waterslide paper that has a solid white background instead of clear and started over. The result looks great!
The band aid is a fun reminder of the path to get here.
Next step is 6-8 coats of clear on top of the band aid decal.
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