u/Chance-Ad8261

So this guys a great flyer, yesterday though we took him out and he crash dived into the floor, and then flew to me but lopsided looking. And when he landed he held the right wing up (left side in first pic) and was shaking it and looked uncomfortable, but then he started singing and talking like normal. Wing doesn’t seem broken as I touched it and pressed on it and he doesn’t give me any reactions other than when he flies and lands and I see that wing shivering, but the feathers look abnormal. I have no aviary vet or vets who take birds near me so that isn’t an option. Should I leave him in the cage for a few weeks to let it heal if anything? Or is there anything I could look for to see if it’s a broken feather?

One of my final diaries, sound demo on the frankenstrat, it kicks ass in my opinion! Let me know what you think!

I want my wife’s boyfriend to peg me with the butt end, but will the body part be comfortable to play after a good pegging? Need advice

So I spent a ton of time on this build and the final thing to do was switch the kits plastic nut to graphtec. I’ve done nut replacements at least 7 times and it’s always a smooth process. This time though the nut would not budge, they slathered it in super glue and bashed it into the tightest slot, I tried the wood block technique from the side no budge, instead it broke the front wood shelf which I don’t even get as I hit it from the side. I managed to get it out at this point and repair the clean break, and get the new nut in. But can anyone please give me tips incase I encounter this again as I don’t wanna break anymore wood doing this. I want this to be a one off mistake that right now I’m blaming on the kit maker as I said slathered in glue and a very tight slot. Was there anything else I could have done or was this just bound to happen because of the China neck. Any tips appreciated thanks!

So yesterday I took on the task of the final assembly of my frankenstrat. What I thought would have been a fast assembly turned into a long long process as mounting the pickups directly to the body was not easy. I ended up using popsicle sticks to make an extension platform where the humbuckers go as without it my pickup height would have been way too low. I managed to get the pickups fixed to the body with no height adjustment but I set them to the spot where it’s not too low or too close to the strings and she sounds sizzly on the amp so it worked out great. The next issue came with the pickgaurd because cutting those 3 ply guards is a lot tougher than you’d think, my hosco saw wasn’t doing the trick so I ended up dulling a pair of kitchen scissors to get it cut to shape. Then after getting everything fixed in place and ready I decided to go wire it up, but I wanted to wire it up with the single coil actually functionable. I was going to use a small hidden DPDT two way toggle but then figured a pull pot would do the same thing without any extra knobs / wires. I wired it up in such a way that when it’s down the humbucker is being used with the full 500k pot, but then I tied in a 470k resistor so when you pull up for the single coil it drops the pot to 250k. This resulted in a lot more wires than just wiring the one pickup, but at face value it doesn’t look like it has this extra function. I’ve never really relic anything before so doing the neck to look old was kind of a bitch too, I ended up using a cigarette ash mixture and rubbing it on the raw wood, then adding real cigarette burns, and then I sealed the dirt in with some natural sealing oil, so in pictures it looks cleaner than it actually does in real life as when the light hits it it looks clean I’ll probably try to do this again on another build to really learn how to do that worn in look. Overall I’ve done 4 builds now and this was by far my favourite as a lot of time went into bodywork, fretwork and just everything but it plays very well in the state it’s in, the only thing I have left to do is install some string trees and a graphtec but all in all very happy with the outcome. Let me know what you guys think!

PS: I know the wiring looks very messy I usually heat shrink stuff but ran out and in true Frankie fashion I decided to use a ton of different color scrap wire, so yeah it’s a little mess but it works!

So yesterday I took on the task of the final assembly of my frankenstrat. What I thought would have been a fast assembly turned into a long long process as mounting the pickups directly to the body was not easy. I ended up using popsicle sticks to make an extension platform where the humbuckers go as without it my pickup height would have been way too low. I managed to get the pickups fixed to the body with no height adjustment but I set them to the spot where it’s not too low or too close to the strings and she sounds sizzly on the amp so it worked out great. The next issue came with the pickgaurd because cutting those 3 ply guards is a lot tougher than you’d think, my hosco saw wasn’t doing the trick so I ended up dulling a pair of kitchen scissors to get it cut to shape. Then after getting everything fixed in place and ready I decided to go wire it up, but I wanted to wire it up with the single coil actually functionable. I was going to use a small hidden DPDT two way toggle but then figured a pull pot would do the same thing without any extra knobs / wires. I wired it up in such a way that when it’s down the humbucker is being used with the full 500k pot, but then I tied in a 470k resistor so when you pull up for the single coil it drops the pot to 250k. This resulted in a lot more wires than just wiring the one pickup, but at face value it doesn’t look like it has this extra function. I’ve never really relic anything before so doing the neck to look old was kind of a bitch too, I ended up using a cigarette ash mixture and rubbing it on the raw wood, then adding real cigarette burns, and then I sealed the dirt in with some natural sealing oil, so in pictures it looks cleaner than it actually does in real life as when the light hits it it looks clean I’ll probably try to do this again on another build to really learn how to do that worn in look. Overall I’ve done 4 builds now and this was by far my favourite as a lot of time went into bodywork, fretwork and just everything but it plays very well in the state it’s in, the only thing I have left to do is install some string trees and a graphtec but all in all very happy with the outcome. Let me know what you guys think!

PS: I know the wiring looks very messy I usually heat shrink stuff but ran out and in true Frankie fashion I decided to use a ton of different color scrap wire, so yeah it’s a little mess but it works!

So yesterday I took on the task of the final assembly of my frankenstrat. What I thought would have been a fast assembly turned into a long long process as mounting the pickups directly to the body was not easy. I ended up using popsicle sticks to make an extension platform where the humbuckers go as without it my pickup height would have been way too low. I managed to get the pickups fixed to the body with no height adjustment but I set them to the spot where it’s not too low or too close to the strings and she sounds sizzly on the amp so it worked out great. The next issue came with the pickgaurd because cutting those 3 ply guards is a lot tougher than you’d think, my hosco saw wasn’t doing the trick so I ended up dulling a pair of kitchen scissors to get it cut to shape. Then after getting everything fixed in place and ready I decided to go wire it up, but I wanted to wire it up with the single coil actually functionable. I was going to use a small hidden DPDT two way toggle but then figured a pull pot would do the same thing without any extra knobs / wires. I wired it up in such a way that when it’s down the humbucker is being used with the full 500k pot, but then I tied in a 470k resistor so when you pull up for the single coil it drops the pot to 250k. This resulted in a lot more wires than just wiring the one pickup, but at face value it doesn’t look like it has this extra function. I’ve never really relic anything before so doing the neck to look old was kind of a bitch too, I ended up using a cigarette ash mixture and rubbing it on the raw wood, then adding real cigarette burns, and then I sealed the dirt in with some natural sealing oil, so in pictures it looks cleaner than it actually does in real life as when the light hits it it looks clean I’ll probably try to do this again on another build to really learn how to do that worn in look. Overall I’ve done 4 builds now and this was by far my favourite as a lot of time went into bodywork, fretwork and just everything but it plays very well in the state it’s in, the only thing I have left to do is install some string trees and a graphtec but all in all very happy with the outcome. Let me know what you guys think!

PS: I know the wiring looks very messy I usually heat shrink stuff but ran out and in true Frankie fashion I decided to use a ton of different color scrap wire, so yeah it’s a little mess but it works!

After yesterday’s post, decided to tape her up and hit it with the lime green today. The color is really cool when in bright light as it really brings out the lime aspect (put a photo with and without bright light) but it looks just as sick in the dark too. This second taping is no joke, the first tape job is already borderline iffy, so after trying to follow the picture I ended up lost and decided to do what I thought would work best while still keeping that very Eddie look. I added different lines where there shouldn’t be and just did what I thought would look cool. Pulling the tape had me on eggshells as I didn’t know if I was gonna like or dislike the pattern but I am very pleased with the result. Let me know what you think!

After yesterday’s post, decided to tape her up and hit it with the lime green today. The color is really cool when in bright light as it really brings out the lime aspect (put a photo with and without bright light) but it looks just as sick in the dark too. This second taping is no joke, the first tape job is already borderline iffy, so after trying to follow the picture I ended up lost and decided to do what I thought would work best while still keeping that very Eddie look. I added different lines where there shouldn’t be and just did what I thought would look cool. Pulling the tape had me on eggshells as I didn’t know if I was gonna like or dislike the pattern but I am very pleased with the result. Let me know what you think!

After yesterday’s post, decided to tape her up and hit it with the lime green today. The color is really cool when in bright light as it really brings out the lime aspect (put a photo with and without bright light) but it looks just as sick in the dark too. This second taping is no joke, the first tape job is already borderline iffy, so after trying to follow the picture I ended up lost and decided to do what I thought would work best while still keeping that very Eddie look. I added different lines where there shouldn’t be and just did what I thought would look cool. Pulling the tape had me on eggshells as I didn’t know if I was gonna like or dislike the pattern but I am very pleased with the result. Let me know what you think!

Got the first set of stripes done for my own personalized frankenstrat. It's in the 1978 phase right now, with some added lines to my own taste to still pay homage to Eddie but also give it a little something of my own. This was a pain to tape but came out pretty sick in my opinion so far. I contemplated doing a factory style finish with high gloss and no blems, but honestly in true homage to the real Frankie I’m gonna just paint it and tape it as is and not clear coat. My final color will be lime green. Let me know what yall think!

Got the first set of stripes done for my own personalized frankenstrat. It’s in the 1978 phase right now, with some added lines to my own taste to still pay homage to Eddie but also give it a little something of my own. This was a pain to tape but came out pretty sick in my opinion. My final color will be lime green. Let me know what yall think!