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I received this custom made offset body and Warmoth neck to finish for a forum friend. He sent the color swatch and my lacquer supplier did a great job nailing the color. Here it is with matching painted head stock with a few coats of clear which I'll level sand and apply the decal. The body has...

I just received this roasted alder body from Warmoth yesterday to finish in vintage style Fiesta Red for shyboy999. If you want to watch it step-by-step check in on my Instagram page @greggrubaugh. I will also post progress pictures here along the way.

I was sent this offset guitar to refinish for a forum member and he asked to match the color of the plastic from the pickup cover. I have a new source for color matches on lacquer and they did a pretty nice job. I love this color, somebody send me a Strat to finish with this color so I don't...

Jay4321 sent me this to finish for him. I shot color coat on today and its looking pretty good. There is something about a white Strat. I'll never forget the first time I saw one hanging on the wall of a music store in 1970 and it took my breath away. Must have been Jimi. If you want to watch...

Well I've joined the social media universe and have been having fun on Instagram. If you have ever wondered what it sounds like around my house I have been posting Greg Guitar Diddys on my account. They have all been recorded with my cell phone using various guitars and amps so the sound quality...

I'm doing a SG for jackpax. I had to mix the filler using Neutral Filler from LMI along with the powdered aniline dye. I have to use a mortar and pestle to grind the color into the filler to get the color I'm after. Here it is being filled and after it is wiped off with the burlap.

I received this from rob91bob to do a refinish on. He did a nice job getting it prepped and ready for me to get started with the finishing so I did a small amount of finish sanding and started on it today. We are going to do a purple to black burst with a black lacquer back. Looks good so far!

so here I go. Since 2013 when I started tracking my numbers on spread sheets I have ridden 14,500 miles on my bicycle. It would be higher but I had a surgery that knocked me out for a while in 2016 and a really bad crash this past year that put me out for about 8 weeks. I have lost 46.5 lbs in...

Hunting season is over and the New Year is here so I'm getting fired back up to finish more guitars. I started this one a while back for myself with all kinds of big plans on different finishes but once I got the first wash coat of clear on the wood I decided it needed to be left in as natural...

It's been a while since I built one for myself so I decided to do an art guitar in collaboration with my artist son and the Great Ape. The idea is to have my son do the art work of my koi and then send it off to the Greg for him to do the wood burning and coloring then back to me to for the...

I received this roasted body to finish in Lake Placid Blue. Since I have to get it prepared with past filler and then shoot it with white lacquer as a primer I thought I'd play with it a little on the way to the color coat and see what we get. Here it is right after final prep. Here it is with...

Years ago I read an article in the ToneQuest Report about matching a Princeton Reverb with an EV SRO 15 for amazing results. Well I had a 73 PR but no EV SRO 15 but based on the article I decided to see if I could come up with something close. I contacted Larry Rodgers to see if he could build...

A gallon of Seagrave's Lacquer from LMI cost $149.96 shipped to my door. OUCH!!!! Let me say that again $149.96. And on top of that I have to go to Nevada to get decent Lacquer Thinner and Retarder because the California VOC compliant stuff is not worth the match it would take to make it...

I started this mahogany Strat for nullref and I'll be doing a cherry red. The first step is to fill it with cherry paste filler. I had to mix this using a neutral paste filler and powdered aniline dye from LMI. The trick with this is to use a  mortar and pestle to grind the color into your paste...

Yea Warmoth I love the new Yellow Tortoise guard! I put one on the Texas Tea Strat and it looks great on this guitar. FYI, I used an aluminum shielding plate under it and the yellow shows more clearly than if I laid it directly over the color of the guitar. It is pretty transparent so the color...

ThePhilosopher kindly decided to trust me with his guitar to finish as a 3-tone burst on mahogany. It got off to a scary start as I received it not quite ready to finish; out of the box I about hit the panic button.  :laughing7: After a bit of sanding with a DA and then some final hand sanding...

who can afford one now. So the next best thing is to build one with Warmoth parts. I received this beautiful straight gained Swamp Ash body that will make a smoking "54" 2-tone sunburst. This is going to coupled with a real tasty lightly flamed 1 piece 59 Roundback, 1 11/16 nut, with 6150...

Actually not totally.  :icon_thumright: I have been contemplating refinishing my blond Tele to a 2-tone sunburst and really waffling back and forth on refinishing a perfectly good guitar. Especially one that looks so close to a vintage finish. When bobsessed asked about bursting swamp ash and I...

A Blue Monkey that is, and I'm going to use lacquer to do it. I have longed to get my hand's on one of Great Ape's pieces for a while and thanks to Black Dog he has given me the opportunity. He told me something was headed my way and I only needed to shoot it with clear and then do one of my...

I received this yesterday from Warmoth to finish for nullref in a nitrocellouse Mary Kaye style finish. I'll post progress pictures as I go along so he can enjoy the process from a distance and you are all welcome to join in the fun if you choose.  This is a great piece of Swamp Ash for this...