Tom Booth

Anne Hathaway in that leather catsuit rocks my socks.

Jenny's out for the night on a hen do, so it's pizza, batman and guitars tonight

Depends on quite a bit, how thick your primer is, conditions, what primer. Doing what your doing thou I'd prime them then leave 3/4 hours if your using aerosol grey primer. No megascience too it, just till it's dry enough in all the nooks and crannies to flat back.

Binnnggoooo. Anything around 600-800 by hand on primer is the perfect key for base and lacquer. On solid colours you can go down lower to 400/500, but there ain't really no need.

My dead ass big toe nail that's been dangling on for months has finally come off! It's super gross and mega sensitive at the same time.

What did you sand the primer with before colour?

Beautiful Dunc,my brother in law has a Breitling and its stunning. I hope to own one some day.

You set me off into watch buying mode again, after a few weeks looking and trying on I bought this yesterday... Tissot PRS330, really pleased with it, it's a big hefty piece but feels very nice. I've never been one for highly polished stuff so the brushed stainless work well for me. Whilst I was there the saleswoman took interest in my other watch.. 2007/2008 Tissot T-race I had for my 21st from my folks and was complimented on how well it still looks. I told her it goes for service every year at Tissot and kept in its original case over night. She was telling me what some of the original T-race stuff changes hands for now, I was gob smacked! It's such a contrast though, because my T-race is such a big watch but it's Titanium and carbon it's half the weight of the PRS! I ordered another to look at when it arrives although I'm pretty certain I'll have it.. Edit - f**k you, photobucket rotate. f**k, you.

My best friends stag do tonight, I've known him since day 10 of my life and I couldn't be happier for him. Lads on tour, pussy patrol and all that.

Haha, I was considering a reply last night but didn't really bother. Just enjoy showing what I've built/thought it might interest others. Strats sound like strats due to the sprung tremolo and massive cavities, teles sound like teles due to the through body strings and bridge setup. 'Proper' hardtail strats don't interest me in the slightest, they don't have that ring of a sprung tremolo whereas a blocked trem still maintains those features but non of the tuning issues. The whole package needs to be there otherwise it just lacks that definitive sound of a strat. Acrylic lacquer is pointless on a body, it offers all the drawbacks of nitro with the yellowing, crazing and poor protection with no upshots. Unless you polish it weekly it'll be flat as hell in a month and you'll eventually polish through. Either use nitro if your dead set on 1k or go full fat and use a 2k product for better protection, build and material strength.

Is there no N/A tuning options available? For a fast road car /track toy I'd love a savage N/A.

A few friends of mine built boosted clios, one was an old mk2 valver and the other was a 172. Neither last long between rebuilds/fails/mild explosions/gearbox napalm. Best of luck Dan!

Springs add to the tone of a strat, if you remove the trem cover and just play you can hear them chime away. I've just finished it anyway and I Love it to bits, it's such a jangly beast! Anyone with a bolt on I'd 100% recommend stripping the neck pocket out completely as with the neck heel, the resonance on this thing is incredible! Drill out your neck holes too so the screws clamp the body down properly, you can feel everything which was a big suprise coming from my poly strat/tele. It sounds absolutely gorgeous, really old rock'n'roll vibe kicking off. These '54 custom shop pickups are winners too, the mids are super crisp and the top end just breaks a tiny bit, sounds a treat singing along to some Chuck Berry or Little Richard! Really really pleased with how it's turned out,just on the look out for some fender pure vintage 250k pots as I love those in my Tele, they roll off across the whole range rather than 10-7.

f**k you guys

Builds coming on well.. Buffed, neck pocket sanded out and neck sanded for completely flat contact, wood on wood too which should help. Neck screw holes enlarged too so the neck is pulled to the body too, rather than sitting on it. Copper sheilding, just need to solder all pieces together now to achieve full insulation. I'd heard a few people say the '54 custom shop pickups can be abit noisey so I thought it might help out. It was done thing I just wanted to have a go at too. Blocked trem with a slither of maple, 5 heavy duty trem springs for stability and hopefully fatten the bottom end up. Vintage Klusons, unfortunately they supplied 8mm bushes rather than 10mm so I was left abit stuck of building it . Electrics are landing tomorow so I'll get my scratchplate built tomorow and hopefully get it strung!

30k car that mayte. Dust alone says that.

A while ago I bought a Mexican 60th anniversary Strat to build to sell, it came and played so lovely, it's a soft v neck with a nice flat board, so I put it away till I decided what to do with it. More specifically this one.. My business has recently took a bit of a turn and I've been quite focused on customisation as well as just paint jobs, I recently rewired a tele to esquire specs as well as a few other smaller mods. That guy went away and told his friend and now I've got 3 off the back of that and 2 more booked in. I've decided to make a go in that scene so I've decided to keep the strat and build it as a demo guitar as well as the few other bits I've done on my own guitars. I've caught up on a lot of work today so I thought I'd spend my time on my own projects.. I've decided to try build inspired by the 2009 Clapton strat in Daphne blue with slight relic work, finished in Nitro but minus the wiring and revert to the 50s 3 way switch setup, possibly including the mid boost circuitry. First step was to strip the body back to bare to begin the thinskin nitro.. Unfortunately it looks like this body was originally intended for something else, as underneath the candy red I found surf green and burgundy mist, all in poly! To get to the Fender sanding sealer pictured it took me 5 hours of paint stripping, hand sanding and scrapping, after that picture, it took another 2 hours to get to bare timber. Cheers Fender. After this I hand sanded through to 500, applied 2 coats of tinted nitro sealer then hand sanded upto 800. Then I applied 4 coats of Daphne blue.. I'm really proud of the finish, it's greener in person and looks gorgeous. I can't wait to buff on Monday! I've bought a set of strong stainless trem springs, nickel Kluson split shaft tuners, Custom shop '54 pickups, I'm sticking with a 3ply pickguard as I don't care for single ply, 3 way switch, copper shielding and a load of cloth wax wire. I'm going to attempt a bone nut too, I'm happy to install but I'm not keen on string setting so I might ask Andy Farell to get in on tag one. I'm really looking foward to getting it back together, I hope it sounds as good as it does in my head! Hopefully get some attention amongst my other creations at the odd guitar shows I'll be attending

Jeees tic, don't be such a hard on.

Caddy is on the jig, it's looking good...

Maybe, he's been doing it for a while but Greece has been in the shit for a while too. Just seems an odd place to be so ripe with mint condition genuine watches..

No worries, next time I see it him I'll try to remember. It really is nice but subtle. A guy my dad knows through work collects a lot of old Omega stuff, no idea what he's got but I know he's got 50+ genuine items.

Nice that is Jarhead, my dad owns a really nice 1956 Omega seamaster with original papers and box which is pretty bad ass aswell as a few others that aren't quite as old. Strangely enough my dad has a lot of success buying from Greece for some reason?

I recently discovered whiskey, I'm currently enjoying that in volume.

Ha, Gaaaaaaaay.

Folks bought this for me yesterday as a bit of a treat , it's too nice. It's immaculate for a preowned too! USA special, candy red maple neck with 70's headstock, Texas specials and grease bucket circuit. I really like it, I restrung it last night with fender pure nickels .09s and its a tone machine! Love it.