Leaderboard

Well I went for light sanding and lacquer approach on the edges to keep it's wear damage. It will need some more flatting once my wet and dry arrives and will match the sheen on the untouched front and back all being well. Cleaned and fed the fretboard after doing the frets and polishing. Also being lefty means used guitars are harder to find and I saw this Aria Stg 004 local to me and a deal was struck for £35. Hss with coil split toggle. The body is great apart from one ding. It had been unloved for a long time with black strings and frets, the action was so high you could limbo under it. The truss rod was way out as the neck had a forward bow. The truss was tweaked and the fretboard cleaned and the frets polished. Left the neck a couple of days to settle a bit but it needed a really good tweak to get suitable relief. The action was still higher than I like and the bridge setting were as low as they'd go so I shimmed the neck. Much better and some light work on the nut brought it all together. Wiring wise I shielded the cavities and wired for one master tone. The middle tone pot was split open and the track cut at one end. Refitted and wired for a neck blender pot. So one end it's open circuit so no loading, then by turning it slowly brings the neck pickup in circuit for more choices with all pickups on position 2 and neck blending with the bridge humbucker/split single. Happy with it, it plays well and has an array of tones. The knobs are righty which is messing with my ocd and not sure whether to put a black pickguard on it. Hopefully the gold stuff for the Antoria will be here soon so I can finish it. The delays are costing me money with little side projects. A graphite nut has arrived for my recent Epiphone Express Sg Special 3/4 scale so I may replace the shimmed and recut original righty nut if I get bored.