General Painting & Experiments

This is the place for all the non-Moontide Guitars I have painted or experimented on.
If you want me to paint, mod or repair a guitar of yours just contact me through the contact form!

Jaguar Style guitar in worn sunburst Jaguar style guitar worn sunburst older pic with less wear Jaguar style guitar even less wear unfinished neck Jaguar Style guitar in worn sunburst full back view

This actually used to be my main guitar before I started Moontide, a Musikraft neck/Guitarbuild.Co.Uk body with pretty classic specs.
I call it my Custom Shop 50s Jaguar because it has a hard-V neck back profile and ash body, specs you wouldn't see on a 60s Jaguar.
100% nitro as usual with honest play wear, no relic'ing on this guitar, super light for a Jaguar at 8.66 lbs too.

Stratocaster Style guitar body in aged vintage white, light relic front Stratocaster style guitar body in aged vintage white, close up Stratocaster style guitar in aged vintage white, light relic back

Vintage White Stratocaster style guitar body for a friend, we're gonna put together a Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute Strat for him.
You can see the finish checking, I used Nitorlack Golden Age lacquer for this guitar and it turned out perfectly.
I'm not affiliated with Fender, I don't make these bodies, this one is from guitarbuild.co.uk.

First ever ST style body, aluminum pickguard heavy relic ST style guitar pickup experiment ST style guitar pickup experiment Squier Bullet Strat refinished in blue nitro with fake fingerboard binding Squier Bullet Strat refin closeup fake binding

The first two pics show the same guitar a couple of months apart, this is back when I was still making aluminum and steel pickguards.
Ash body blank if I recall correctly, I routed it for a Floyd and a huge swimming pool for experimenting with pickups (which was used to its full extent as you can see)
The third pic is a Squier Bullet Strat I refinished for a friend back in the day, the fingerboard binding is sprayed on, 60s cheapo acoustics style.

Half Jagstang style guitar with 70s lawsuit neck Half Jagstang style guitar with 70s lawsuit neck assembled lefty ST style guitar modified for microtonal playing

The half Jagstang I mentioned on the about page, sadly this is the only picture I have of it, the neck is from a 70s Martinez Strat Copy.
I modified the Strat on the right into a microtonal guitar, King Gizzard style, sadly it looked much cooler than it actually was and the lefty+microtonal combo was pretty annoying.
I sold the neck on ebay a few years ago and the body lives on with a different neck in the hands of a great 70s hard rock guitarist I know.

1-piece maple neck Musikraft aged amber nitro lacquer lefty ST style guitar with amber nitro lacquer maple neck

I'm missing a bunch of pictures of guitars I painted and/or modded, I'll try to find more but I can't guarantee anything sadly, I'm neither big on backups nor am I a big photographer.

Moontide Guitars is not affiliated with Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, The Fender Logo, Stratocaster/Strat, Jaguar and Squier are their trademarks.
I do not make F style bodies at all; I can paint your Warmoth/Musikraft/etc bodies and necks and I can put together your Partscaster as well but I do not make Fender parts or Partscasters myself.
My necks and bodies aren't compatible with Fender without modifications either, but I don't see why you would want to combine the two anyways, very different guitars.
Stratocaster, Strat, Jaguar, Jagstang, Squier and Fender are © FMIC