ST-Custom: The Jurassicaster

The Jurassicaster is based upon an ST-1 Custom kit from PitBull Guitars.

Basswood body with Maple neck and a Rosewood fretboard.

The plan:

This is a base model guitar so my expectations aren't high. Quite simply, this guitar will not look like this for long:

- It'll be black, the pickguard will be black and the whole thing will be coated in polyurethane.

- I've going to coat it in Jurassic Park/World stickers - most of which are Wish, and a couple of vinyls from eBay. I don't want to have too much layering, but I do want to coat the body fairly well. 

Changes from the kit:

- Chrome bridge - replacing that with a Babicz hard tail. That cost about what the whole kit did.

- Chrome tuners - replacing those with some black Grovers. 

- The existing pickguard will be used but I'll spray it black before I coat it. 

I've 3D printed and painted some covers to fit over the humbuckers for the time being, and printed some black Fender style knobs. Eventually I'll toss these humbuckers out and use the black ones from my Epiphone Les Paul when I'm ready to replace those (i.e. when I stop spending too much on building guitars to fund decent pickups). 

I'm more focussed on making this guitar playable and having quality mechanical bits - like the tuners and bridge given these affect a lot of how the guitar performs. There's little value after all investing hours upon hours in preparing the guitar, sorting the neck out, adjusting the string heights and intonating it if the damned thing won't stay in tune or intonate properly. 

This won't wind up being something that everyone will like. At the end of the day, it's a chunk of basswood that will be covered in stickers. As much as anything, it's a test for me to try my hand at clear coating and polishing. 

I'm not going to turn a $180 kit guitar with $200 worth of name brand components into a $2000 guitar. If I can get it to a quality that I'd happily pay $500 for, then I've probably achieved a result. If I can make it better, then that's awesome.

Currently it's in transit, and the bits for it are behind it, so it might be a week or two before this one gets off the ground.