Brendan, did you use the water trick to swell the compressed part back to original? If not. Stop and bring it with you today and I will help you with it.
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Brendan, did you use the water trick to swell the compressed part back to original? If not. Stop and bring it with you today and I will help you with it.
Haha Scott, you just HAD to mention my awesome LP!!! It's almost done actually, the too has 3 coats on it that I might increase to 4 in some areas, and the back is almost done... So during that time period I'll also apply the neck top coats, the. I'll be wiring, then gluing the neck, then it's all just stringing up and letting the mighty beast roar!Quote:
/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from WeirdBits on June 30, 2013, 00:16
and, bright side, now you'll be able to take on the Pest in the August GOTM.
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
Jeepers Brendan, I would still be swearing fluently right now if that had happened to me. Especially considering the beautiful finish you have achieved.
Good fortune with the recovery process my boy . . .
O CRAP!
Brendan, if you want some deep colour I can sort it out for you and have it in the post tomorrow mate.
Email me at dingobass@pitbullguitars.com
Will see how my fix went tonight - applied colour on Saturday night after dropping it. If that's taken then should be good. Otherwise....
That is after cleaning my man cupboard and making sure there's no reason for it to happen again!
Thanks heaps for the offer!
OK - cold hard light of day (didn't look @ it yesterday as I'd be too tempted to react rashly) the damage seems significant but not catastrophic. About 6 big chips in the shell (Wudtone seems to have protected the body well) and lots of smaller dings where it seems a grit of sand has gotten into the top. See first photo. I'm thinking sand top and sides back totally and start them again or just points of damage and try to match colours.
My main concern is area on the bottom left where it seems there's a "V" shaped crack running between the control cavity and the back of the body. See second and third photos (one I've highlighted the damage). Nothing seems loose, but given the shape of the cracking, I'm worried of some underlying damage. I've peeled back the shielding but as I hadn't sanded the cavity too much so you can't see anything there. Should I be worried about this or am I making stuff up? I did sand locally on Saturday and try to repair using base coat only, but the depth of colour isn't there. Unfortunately it doesn't carry with the dodgy phone camera with poor lighting (makes it look like it did pre drop :?).
Positive note - man cupboard upgraded with *new* rubber mats for flooring - may not stop all the damage, of the next drop, but may stop some :|. Benefit of 20:20 hindsight. Also cleared more space on my workbench so hopefully there's no reason for another drop.
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More positives - the neck looks great - really happy with it - logo has come up nicely and overall was fairly successful and simple.
Tricks - printed on a laser printer at work on laser printer decal paper, but not sure both were what they seemed - print didn't seem to stabilise properly, so my first decal's print rubbed off when I left it in the water for long enough. But Wudtone to the rescue - light coat of top coat on the second decal, leave it for 24 hours and Bob's your relative of choice. Plan now - add lots of top coats to the head of the neck and then sand it back till you can't see its a decal (maybe).
What I'll try next time - keep the decal cutout shape simple (I tried to cut out any blank space i.e., around words, etc, but it just made it harder to handle - the two ends seemed to want to go in different directions).
What worked - printed off lots of copies of everything - on one sheet I got 22 logos and 3 copies of 20 serial numbers - so if I stuff one up, there's a couple of spares.
Made the logo using a font from Cooltext.com just using paint so that I could arrange the words how I wanted them and put a hand drawn line between the words and text to give it the same feel as the text. I then imported the logo into Word and copied it over and over again. Same deal with the serial numbers.
Then printed test print to make sure everything was the right size, etc, etc...
Then printed the real thing...
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I'd be sanding the cracked parts right back to the wood. Assessnthe damage properly and get some good quality titebond into those cracks and glued up properly.That way you can continue with your build knowing th body is sound again. The wudtone will cover the blemishes if yo do it properly.
Nice spelling there Gav! :P
Apart from that, sound advice.
I sent the new deep colour coat out to you today Brendan, so I would be inclined to sand the whole body back and start again.....
Bummer, I know but it will give the best results.
Yep, thought so... Will sand, sand, then sand again... I'll have another look at the cracks... Hopefully (fingers crossed) it's only a crack in the Wudtone, not the wood...