NGD - Desolation Star, DST-3

[MartinBarre]

Newc, you shoulda told me that BEFORE I painted it!

[Newc]

You didn't paint the neck, did you?

Ron: Ah, I see. That's fucking weak

[Newc]

[IMG]http://newcenstein.com/JCF/Martin-Star-mod.jpg[/IMG]

Note the heel and compare to your original pic.

[RacerX]

You can't win, Newc!

[Prince Vultan]

Looks badass! Great job. Got to get my mitts on one of these babies.

[DonP]

I can use lower case img. I don't know why it won't work for you Matt. One thing I noticed when I quoted your post is that you image had URL tags around it. I didn't see the URL tags around the image until after I quoted. Are you keying in the link manually or using one of the fancy gizmo buttons? I key my stuff in manually and don't trust the buttons.

Note the heel and compare to your original pic.

[RacerX]

I key my stuff in manually and don't trust the buttons.

+ 1

[straycat]

Where did the dots on the neck go?

[Newc]

+ 1

I type [IMG] then paste the link to the image, then close the [/IMG] tag like so.

[MartinBarre]

Where did the dots on the neck go?

It's in the original post.

I bought some of those fretboard inlay stickers to try - brown rosewood dots, to cover the MOTO ones, you can see the result in the bottom photo of the neck, they look ok from a distance. I gave the fretboard a going over with some linseed oil as well before I applied those, so everything should be great once I get it all together!

[straycat]

Thanks I missed that.Looks good

[DonP]

I type [IMG] then paste the link to the image, then close the [/IMG] tag like so.

Don't do the paste. This new Reply Editor catches your paste and stick URL tags around it. When I quote your non-working image, I see tagurl(data)/url/tag.

Just type everything in manually and see if it works.

[MartinBarre]

I used the Star for a charity gig a couple of weeks ago, here's some pics. It was an outdoor, all day mini-festival, and of about 7 hours of bands, we were the only ones to get an encore.

The truss rod cover is engraved with our still born daughter's name, so I was really glad I got to use the guitar for a gig, it was really special.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmYprT3qp-k&feature=youtu.be

[KevinDguitar]

That looks great! Seems like a pretty cool blank canvas as that price..hmmmmm...lol

[Ron Burgundy]

First of all, sorry for the necro post!

I'm really happy that you got that DST-3 to do what you wanted it to do... because what happened to me was the total opposite.

Here's my story, if you would kindly indulge me:

I was in Singapore for work, and there's this guitar store near the hotel we stay at. I was overjoyed to find out that it was an official Charvel dealer, and already had the cash (OK, credit card) to grab one of these Stars immediately. If I was happy with it, of course.

Sadly, the guitar I played bore all the characteristics of a poor, shoddily-made excuse of an instrument. The list of flaws:
1) Horrible overall fit and finish
2) Floyd posts were misaligned and the trem actually was actually scraping the lip of the routing
3) Light body. Like, really, really, plasticky, toy-ish feeling light body

Needless to say, I was disappointed. They had a few units, and they all had the same flaws. I couldn't get out of the store quick enough.

However, the episode was a blessing in disguise. If I had bought the Star, I wouldn't have come across my WRMG!

I hope this was a worthy post.