Top coats started. Photo of the back of the neck - using Vintage Amber stain / top coats. Photos of the body just show red, though even without the topcoats, there's a bit of semi gloss around.
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Top coats started. Photo of the back of the neck - using Vintage Amber stain / top coats. Photos of the body just show red, though even without the topcoats, there's a bit of semi gloss around.
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This is goingto be good!
It's going to be REALLY good!!!!Quote:
Quote from Gavin1393 on June 9, 2013, 22:00
This is goingto be good!
Quick update - top coats going well - was waiting a week between coats (crossed lines) and rethought it and am now taking a couple of days between top coats. Keeping them thin, but may give it a couple of more coats before calling it quits... Lack of other things to do, so have shielded the back of the pickguard. Waiting on the top coats to dry to do the cavity. Also drilled out the ground wire hole to the bridge to allow me to replace the supplied wire with a shielded one that was a few mm thicker - found a long 1/8" bit that is a poofteenth bigger than the 3mm wire, but just enough to go through nicely. No reason for this bass to be anything but silent.
so is the PB going to be ready to enter GOTM July Brendan ?
could be 3 basses entered with yours, mine and Gav's !
Enough to have a Bass Guitar of the month compo?Quote:
/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from wokkaboy on June 24, 2013, 14:49
so is the PB going to be ready to enter GOTM July Brendan ?
could be 3 basses entered with yours, mine and Gav's !
May have to come up with a reason to push it back a month... The standards are quite high!
No don't do that Brendan, I MIGHT have a bass ready for next month and I don't think I want to come up against yours.Quote:
/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from Brendan on June 24, 2013, 19:09
May have to come up with a reason to push it back a month... The standards are quite high!
Classic looking P Bass mate. :)
rob
Disaster!
All good to start to put it together - had taken the body off my painting pole and put it down for a minute to do something and now I know bodies can bounce... Unfortunately on the face of all places... :x
Have sanded back most of the damage and started to apply Wudtone again - out of deep base, so will try the areas with the base coat only. So far it's looking ... better... Will see what a couple more coats will do. Unfortunately had to learn this lesson the hard way...
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I think this qualifies! The suspicious among us might think...Quote:
Quote from Brendan on June 24, 2013, 19:09
May have to come up with a reason to push it back a month...
Ouch, there's nothing worse than seeing all your hard work undone in the blink of an eye. Heartbreaking :( The gods of luthery can be fickle and cruel, and you have my utmost sympathy. Did the fall/drop happen in slow motion with your accompanying scream of "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" unable to do anything to stop/catch it? It did when mine fell (fortunately it was still bare wood and only partially sanded at the time, but I counted 7 major dents afterwards).
As frustrating as it is when you're so close to finishing it, I'm sure it will clean up ok with more time and patience... and, bright side, now you'll be able to take on the Pest in the August GOTM.