ES1 "Ziltoid" attempt

[vh2580]

Hi Woks, Normal TOM taipiece. there seems to be a block extending down past the tailpiece area, will confirm when I start cutting holes I suppose.

[wokkaboy]

haha ok no worries Tony, hope the block is wide enough. You will find out. Worse comes to worse you could install a trapeze tailpiece or use a wrap around bridge

[pablopepper]

Oh yeah, this is great. Let me know if you need help with the lit up orange.

[vh2580]

You will be definitely hearing from me Pabs.

[vh2580]

So after a bit of google searching found and ordered some fibre optic fretlight kits to have a play with. One in white and a colour changeable one ( only $15 a piece) 9v powered so will fit in with what I had planned as far as power supply. Think it has made up my mind to go the whole hog and replace the fretboard and do lit markers and inlay so ordered an ebony one off pitbull this arvo. Now to work through the plastic inserts and colour.

[vh2580]

Pablo as the plastics guru,do you have a recommendation as a material that may be suitable for the inlays. Would have to be on the thinner side I suppose, so that could bend to suit the shape of the top of the guitar. looking at possibly ledging the body to try and get flush to the top.

[vh2580]

Started trialing how to work the colour out. Blacked a test piece of maple and sanded back. used some white acrylic and a touch of black colourtone, then added a swagload more white as man does one drop of black go a long way. thinned a bit to try and get a semi translucent finish.
Think I need to try and leave the flame darker and a little less opaque to get close.

[vh2580]

Uhhhm!. While my auto sense iron is fantastic for doing work shirts pretty crap for rosewood. Spent an hour trying to get enough heat in to lift the board but to no avail. So chiseled down to thin the fretboard and will have another crack on the weekend and hope to get more heat into it

[Dedman]

Now THAT's relic-ing!

[gavinturner]

Hi Tony,

I have had success doing a trans-black finish using a weak colortone mix (in water) and then oing back over with a clean wet rag to draw the colour out of the non-flame parts. The colour stays in the flame but is removed quite alot from the rest. You can do this in several passes, each time building up the darkness of the flame and reducing everywhere else. The black does build up in the non-flame wood over time, but it was a matter of working until the lighter areas were where i needed them. Something to consider anyway.

cheers,
Gav.