Electric Guitar Kit ST-Style : A Red Hot Value Guitar Project.

I've just finished making my: Harley Benton Electric Guitar Kit ST-Style, guitar. I made it for my son, with a dragon theme, & here's how. I carved a serpent style dragon on the front, & on the back I carved two dragons in flight, one with it's wings spread wide open. It was then given a ruby red paint job. I inlaid brass jewelry findings for the heads of each dragon, & replaced all the chrome metalwork with brass fittings, including a chunky cast brass jackplate. I also fitted gold plastic pickup covers, switch tip & tremolo arm tip. I added brass control knobs with Abalone caps, & put a winged cross on the neck plate. I swapped the pickguard for one with an image of reptile skin on it. For the tremolo cover plate I had a dragons head engraved onto the back of a gold mirror plate, which gives a great effect. I was lucky to win a very nice neck - highly inlaid with Abalone & mother of pearl - on eBay, along with a set of Zebrano wood machine head buttons, also inlaid with Abalone & mother of pearl. To finish it off I added a red fender logo strap, held in place by brass elliptical strap buttons & beer bottle washer strap locks. All-in-all this is a great guitar project & I recommend anyone wanting to buy a guitar on a limited budget to have a go at making one of the Harley Benton Electric Guitar Kits. "Rock On" mddwoody.