The Way of Relic Black Strat  I'm going to assemble a guitar using some junk parts that I found laying around in my garage.

But these parts have cob webs on them....... Huh? Wait.. Spiders are actually living in some of these parts. Yuk!

Many genuine vintage guitars have cracks in the lacquer, but that does not necessarily mean that all guitars have cracks. So for this project, I'm going to build a guitar called the 'No Cracks' version. It makes things a lot easier not putting those vintage cracks and the building process will be fairly simple since I am going to be using junk parts, I won't put a lot of time into this project.

I got the body from a cheap SAGA kit a few years ago.

Normally, this body would be basswood but I've got an alder body from a special outlet.

What do you mean by 'special outlet'? An insider trade?

The elbow cutaway was too shallow so I've made a wider cut like the early vintage guitars But didn't you say you don't want to spend a lot of time?

To keep things simple, I'll make a black strat.

What? But I heard that making a black guitar is difficult.

	Yeah, it is very difficult if you have to make a shiny black guitar with absolutely no fine scratches. But this is a relic so who cares?
	If it's a black guitar, the undercoat color can be anything. It can be white, beige, or any other color. Also, there are many guitars with no undercoat at all. It would look boring if the completed guitar looks like Clapton's Blackie so I'll put white undercoat for this. I'm gonna use this.....

...left over Shellac base white sealer

Spiders! Spiders!

Then, I spray the left over acrylic black lacquer.

So this project should really be called 'The junk parts guitar with left over paint from the haunted spider house' !!?