Ok!
The guitar took a little bit longer than originally anticipated, ran into some roadblocks… the long and short of it was that I now own a chandelier which is in a couple more pieces than it originated in, and the guitar required some touch up… But its done now.
I used a 2k clearcoat that comes in a can. I used a company called spraymax, I have heard a lot of good things about them but I think this will be my last time buying their product. I am entirely certain it is my fault and I am doing something wrong, but I do own an actual spray gun so it is probably much cheaper/easier for me to just purchase some 2k clear coat (although as I just found out they now carry spraymax 2k at napa auto parts for like half the price I paid for it, and I don’t have to wait 2 weeks for it to come in so maybe I’ll give it one more shot 
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Anyhow the guitar is done now, and it is pretty sick. I had some issues with the model that I made, but honestly for my first time modeling a guitar from scratch I think I did a pretty good job. The only things I really messed up were that I did not give enough space for the output jack to be put in, but a quick dremel job fixed this right up. I also slightly undersized the holes for the bridge posts to go in with the intention of them pressing in and staying snug, but with the coats of paint it was a bit too snug and cracked the paint in a couple of areas. But on a positive note I got the positioning of the posts perfect! The last thing I need to do is to get a longer potentiometer as the ones that come in the EMG kit are a bit short, and I am waiting for my black tuning pegs to come in.
But the guitar plays, and boy does it play. It has quite a unique sound in my opinion, it has a very thick sound, and as a metal player this is awesome. My guess is that becuase it is both made of plastic and semi hollow that it doesn’t resonate as much as a wood guitar. It doesn’t deaden the sound completely, you still get some really nice clean tones through it, but to my ears it definitely chugs a bit more than some wood guitars I have. Maybe I should try and get some comparisons between a plastic and wood guitar so you can hear the difference.
But yes, all in all I am definitely happy with how it turned out. I took it to my guitar teacher the other day to get his opinion and he was in disbelief with how well it played and how well it stayed in tune. We ended up having a competition to see who could put it out of tune faster without touching the tuning pegs. And we were both amazed at how well it stayed in tune, in fact his schecter went out faster than mine did! And he definitely picked up on the same sort of resonance characteristics I did.
No clue why the colours are so washed out in this video, but in real life they are much closer to the picture.
This marks my second printed guitar, and now I know for sure that I have definitely caught the bug… and may or may not have purchased some new machines to help out XD
Let me know what you think of the guitar, I will try and get some videos of actually playing the guitar so you can hear how it sounds!
Matthew 