Saga LP Guitar Build

[NewtonGlen9725]

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Product Description

Saga HT10

Saga PS-style electric guitar kit has an all solid arch top basswood with flamed maple top,shaped and routed neck, fretted rosewood fingerboard and adjustable truss rod steel and heavy nickel plated hardware and the electronic parts are mounted on the pick guard so soldering ...

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[PRIMETIMECRIMEKIDS]

cool paint job



[MrGrumpyGinger]

full size guitar for a 7 month old. lol.

[clewi1091]

can you stain these guitars and not paint them? is the wood good enough for that? i have a grandson that was born in september and i thought about building him his first guitar.

[TropicalBlend12]

You can't stain them. There is some kind of a wood sealant on them. I tried staining mine and it didnt soak in. I sanded it down but it was still all splotchy. so i just decided to paint it.

[SuesDaytona]

I love it, Excellent job.

[cloackmu]

Plese say where you bought this kit and I can buy it in other country ?

[bigdude1012]

@cloackmu just go on ebay

[HiddeHeitbrink]

piece of craftsmanship, at least the colouring. i don't know how it plays

[miclain1995]

dude it looked amazing and then u painted it hat ugly blue color

[allanmacuser]

hi l have just bought the same kit did it all go together well l am sending mine off to have it air brushed but l will be using seymore duncan 1959 pickups l think the machine heads seam ok unless you have any thoughts

regards

allan l wil also post a video of the construction

[dragnrider9]

nice build love the blue.sound good? got any vids of you playing it?

[lilchile123]

u install pickup wrong?

[wardt999]

Your right of course. My original plan was to build from scratch but I thought id try a kit first. I hope you recorded what you did? I'd like to see how you got on. Have you published any pictures of the finished guitar?

[thinlizzynut]

very nice build and finnish but em its nice and all but its kinda cheating ... this year i built my own les paul from what i could find eg. the maple top was made from recycled floor boards and also i made the neck myself it took forever to build but seeing blocks of wood turn into a guitar is really building one ... but that said i really love the paint job its really nicely done so well done on your project!!

[26Xtreme]

saga = fail.

You may have got a good kit, which is lucky, 1 in a milion lucky. Its very rare to get good things from saga.

Also, what is that? A 10 piece body?

[ilikeymuzic]

thats really not that bad, ive played a silertone strat copy, that was 13 peice PLYWOOD, traded a zippo for it, then traded the strat for an ibanez acoustic lol

[SlashMayHendrix]

is there good instructions in the kit and on what languages, where you found the tutorial for painting part?

[tommy1998t]

fuck that was nice damnnnn

[guitarheo3]

thats awesome

[hubermsj]

how did you do the blue burst (with the thumb tack thing) did it come out clean the first time?

[wardt999]

its fairly easy. Part 1 - From cardboard, cut out the basic shape of your body. Then reduce the whole thing by 2 inches. Then get some of those pin tacks used for sticking notices onto cork boards to give you about a 1/2 inch gap under your template.

[wardt999]

part 2 - Stick them through your template pin side down and place it over your guitar body (see my vid I did it back to front first time !!). Spray around the body keeping the same angle and distance as you work around it. I used black for the under tone colour. you shoud see an nice even band of black around your guitar body fading as it nears teh middel. Over spray the whole thing with your chosen colour and you should see a nice burst effect.

HTH

[cheezbeenzriz]

@wardt999 LOL your bridge pickup is flipped the fuck around haha.

[satanlion]

se mira muy bien!! puedes decirme donde conseguistes ese kit y cuanto te costo? :O

[Bluesbrown88]

Te ha quedado muy guapa tio!

[wardt999]

gracias amigo

[TheJester304]

Very nice paint job.

[1976hiboy]

where'd you get this and how much $

[eagle1229]

THAT IS THE SEXIEST GUITAR OF ALL TIME!!!! U ROCK!! what did you use to make the paint glittery?!?!?!?!

[dalal52]

how much wer the halfords car paints?

[AflackDuck11]

What paints did you use? Ive heard alot of good things about kylon paints and was think of using them.

[acousticlv]

would it be okay if i seal the wholes with puddy and glue the neck instead??

[relhek1]

i guess but it wouldnt really matter because your still getting the same amount of wood-to-wood contact unless u route into the pickup area

[FloorSox]

I tried to do that and eventually my guitar neck broke. You could still try. The nice thing though is i could still drill through the wood filler and use it as a bolt on

[acousticlv]

honestly, not a big fan of bolt on even though i own 2 bolt on but thats another story

[Guitarzan13]

i wouldnt, strings cause a lot of tension

[acousticlv]

hmm.... what if i route out the pickup cavity part and glue another piece to neck to get longer wood to glue?

[crowdedmouth]

thank you that's the best photo's I've seen of these kits yet...

[CipollaErMeyo]

are the materials quite good in these kits?

[wardt999]

None. Its very easy to put together. Even the wiring is made very easy.

[conor1148]

did you have any major problems with the build?

[SouthBankOwen]

Hi, im thinking of doing something similar, using a kit to build a les paul junior. Can i ask, did you use any wood primer?

[wardt999]

No, the the wood is sealed using some form of epoxy filler I think. Once cleaned up to get rid of the excess residue its ready for anything.

[SouthBankOwen]

Nice one, thanks.

[dondeestasquenoteveo]

Nice trick for the sunburst.

[wardt999]

Sounds good to me. Its a good solid construction and the pickups seam fine. You can always replace these if you want. Setup is upto you I found the construction was pretty good and I had little work to do to get the action the way I liked it.

[MannyAlex2]

some burst help? so basicly you put tacks upright and put paper over the body paint the sides black and then paint over the whole thing whatever color you want?? is this how its done? id apreciate your help dude u might have not inteded it but you educated me alot

[wardt999]

Remember to put the pins point down so the spray doesn't show up the tack head (lesson learnt for me). I used car spray and found it was easy to get the effect using black and the blue I selected. Near the centre beyond the burst you can see the tiger stripes of the veneer which is the effect you should be after so pick a colour that is a little translucent.

[wardt999]

I did. I looked at using wood stains but after some research I found the easiest method was to use regular car spray. Theres a great selection to choose from too.

[gladstoneonslaught]

Did u use spray car paint?

[riggiwilo]

how dose the guitar sound.

[wardt999]

Its as though Jimmy Page was in the room with me:-)

I love it! But then again Ive only just started playing as Rich was kind enough to point out.

[riggiwilo]

what kind of paint did you use because im geting the same thing but im painting it black but i cant figure out what paint to use?

[wardt999]

I used car paint. Black gloss to sunburst the edge then a metalic poseidon blue to finish which left the middle a little transparent to allow the veneer grain to show through. Then finished it off with a few layers of laquer.

[richardawall]

Nice one, Tony :-)

I bet the James Bond theme sounds great on it ;-)

[wardt999]

Well if you're patient it will take a 1/4 of the time I took. Getting the paint on is easy, 1-2 days. Its the laquer. You have to let it set 1-2 days just isnt long enough. 2-3 weeks as a minimum. Trust me if you dont when you polish it up you'll find you pick up dings and nicks so fast.

[cuzcrew666]

How long did it take to make?