These kits do seem to have some quality issues--half the fun is resolving these LOL
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These kits do seem to have some quality issues--half the fun is resolving these LOL
The best approach :)
thats the best part turning a dog into a lion 😫Quote:
Originally Posted by stuzl873213
Unfortunatly, I've been very busy with my work and I don't have much time to invest in my kit.
But in the last days I've done this:
- Wired the electronics
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- Bought a headstock veneer, a pearloid blank pickguard sheet, a bone nut and a roller bridge (hope this last one fits on the stud holes...)
- Tried the color on a piece of scrap wood, and tried french polishing it.
Front
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Side, back and neck
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Can't wait to see what this will become... Hope those infamous glue marks don't show too much...
That's going to be a real nice colour combination!
My build continues and the big doubts start to show up...
But before I ask for your help, let me show you the progress.
I glued an ebony veneer to the headstock, and made the holes.
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It was not a very difficult task.
I used PVA glue. After gluing and clamping the veneer to the headstock, I waited overnight and then trimmed the excess with a heavy duty pair of scissors and sanded straight until the headstock. Then drilled the holes and made the truss rod opening.
After that, I finally painted the guitar.
First the neck.
I put a thin stripe of tape around the headstock to obtain a stripe of natural color.
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And I was pleased with the results.
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I used a water based stain and a cotton rag.
That looks really neat.
Then the body.
Brown on the back.
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Blue on the front. I used a water based blue stain from crimson guitars (phthalo blue), again with a cotton rag.
Then I tried a burst effect with a black stain.
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Some parts of the body don't take the stain the same way than others, so it took me some time to get an even color trough the whole guitar body.
And there's those infamous glue marks on the pot hole near the switch hole... :/
And on one of the sides, there were some parts that didn't take the stain so well, like this one:
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I then used a razor to scrape away the stain from the binding. It's very easy for your hand to slip and scratch the wood. I was very careful with this step, and because of that, it took me forever to do it... (the f-holes... that was hard...)