great idea for practice bursts, never even thought of that, cool
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great idea for practice bursts, never even thought of that, cool
Thanks Scott.
Stan, never done a burst before so thought I had better try it out. It serves a few things, gives me better knowledge and control of my gun, gives me practice on how to blend and cover the guitar top and lastly let's me play around a bit with colours. Was even a little fun.
If anything that I have learnt playing around with stains is that mix it lighter and you can always add another coat - you can't go backward.
Not the best day for spraying but seemed to come out of the gun ok earlier.
Not bad for my first attempt at a burst but not 100% happy with my darkest colour blend. Forum opinion - would you go back and try and transition the dark colour a bit better? It looks a little red in this photo, must be my camera's processing. It is all brown I tell you.
Thoughts?
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That is looking outstanding, Kane. You have done wonders with that veneer. I wouldn't be touching it.
Wow, that's a great job. I'd be reluctant to change it.
Kane, I agree with Pabs and Fretty, looks fine as it is, ready for clear coats !
My sentiments exactly, not that I'm any sort of expert but it looks perfect to me!Quote:
Originally Posted by pablopepper
I reckon you just about nailed it and that will look awesome when cleared.
Hope you don't mind I did this Kane. Side by side. Your burst if far better to me than the one you want come close to.
Obviously it's up to you but I say clear coat that beast!
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Better start mixing yer clears Kane ;) looks good to me.
Thanks all,
you have convinced me to remove all the tape and paper. Just need to give the top a fine thinners only mist coat. The temps this morning left me with a little orange peel on my last clear mist blend.
Clear coats on Wednesday and Saturday mornings, imperfections and all. Then it can rest up for a month.
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that is a lovely burst Kane, well done
Wow Kane! That burst is amazing. Puts my current effort to shame. Don't change a thing!!
cheers,
Gav.
Thanks - @Stan and @Gav.
Sprayed clear this morning, I ended up using my bigger gun, boy did it churn through my clear. Anyways, seemed to go on alright minus some orange peel. So now the waiting game begins before fine level sanding and logo install.
I have also decided for a cost saving exercise in custom pickup winding that I will use the stock pickups and just install some alnico magnets in place of the stock ceramics. Will be interesting to know how they sound this way.
A few more pics to follow.
nice one Kane looks excellent, sure once you sand back the orange peel next coat will be glossier. What type of clear you spraying ?
Interested to hear how you change the magnets in the stock pups.
Your workshop looks just like Jarrod's. Park the cars in the driveway and use the double garage for axe work !
Wokks,
using what I have left of some acrylic clear lacquer (septone). Not sure if there will be any coats to follow. Will let it cure and then see how it sands. May try just spraying some thinners to melt it flatter.
I will document the pickup strip down, should just be a matter of unsoldering the chrome pickup cover, loosening the coil screws so I can slide out the bar magnet with minimum movement to upset the wiring placement. Won't know until I pull it apart. Stay tuned. Purchase alternate magnets and slide them in. Re-assemble and you are back in business.
Couple of pics to help.
My garage is full and while no proper work shed, you have to do what you can with what you got. I will have my own work space someday.
cool thanks for that humbucker detail, I'll be interested how the magnet change goes, I got a pile of spare stock pups to experiment with. Be very interested to hear if they sound any better too.
Might be worth starting a new post for the humbucker magnet change, I'm sure others will be interested
Sliding out the magnet *may* be tough as the factory seems to use a gummy glue to hold things in place, or at least they used to. When I did a magnet swap I on a set of PBG SG-1F stockies it was pretty messy in there with gum and wax, one magnet could be moved by tapping it out but the other needed the coils removed to free it (but I was doing that anyway). Here's what it looked like:
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crikey Weirdy the factory love glue don't they ! So half the glue on our bodies and caps are probably from the bloke who just put half a litre of glue on the pup magnets !
Thanks for the heads up Weirdy. What mods did you do to the stock pickups or did you just need some parts?
Hey Wokks, which burb is the 4D factory in Perth?
Hey Kane I'm in Willetton and it aint no factory, just a converted workshop under a patio out the back of my house !
I just converted them to 4-wire for splitting etc, and swapped the magnets to Alnico II and V, bridge and neck respectively... but haven't finished the guitar they're going into yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by kanelangmaid
which build are the modded humbuckers for Weirdy ?
@Wokka, my nephew's long awaited SG-1F... so I'm building a distortion pedal for him at this very moment to ease the pain of the wait.
nice one Weirdy, haven't seen any pics of the SG-1F, bet it's a winner. Can't wait to hear the modified pups with Alnico magnets
@Wokka, will have to drop in sometime - about 50min away from me. If you are in the swan valley anytime feel free to drop in.
@Weirdy, sounds close to what I am trying to achieve without the split. Was thinking an alnico 2 in the neck and alnico 4 for the bridge. Funny you should mention distortion pedals, I made a TS808 clone with a keeley boost mod. I must get around to pulling it apart for a jazzy paint job at some point.
no worries Kane, send me a message if you want to call by sometime or I'll let you know if I'm in Swan Valley.
Reader poll,
upgraded jack plate: nickel, or cream?
Hey Kane,
presuming rest of the hardware will be the supplied chrome, will you be using the cream pup surrounds ?
This may influence my advice !
I haven't seen too many cream jack plates, can you please post an example what you are proposing?
Wokks,
a lot of the old school LP's had cream jack plates. Now my LP will have all gotoh hardware - nickel, with all parts cream pickup surrounds and probably upgraded pickguard etc. Pic attached below, so imagine my desert burst with same colour hardware.
oh yeah I remember now I see the pic, cheers Kane.
If you're going a cream pickguard then I'd probably lean toward the cream jack plate then !
Now I can't let Gav's LP get all the attention.
Here is a mock up while the clear coat is drying. 10 days down, judging by the smell of the solvents I reckon another week and it will be pretty close to done. Has been helped by the warmer WA weather the last few weeks.
She is looking amazing Kane. You should be getting ALL the attention for this baby. Blows mine out of the water, no question!
cheers,
Gav.
wow Kane, this will throw the cats amongst the pigeons if you enter GOTM, talk about a Gibbo month so far !
Love the look this is a classy looking LP
Very nice job with that burst man, you could get a job with Gibson I reckon, looks just like a bought one.
wow, yeah you totally nailed that burst, looks so good now
Been a busy few days, plenty of sanding and polishing.
Need to change a few things, do some soldering, get my logo sorted, tune the nut and change the magnets out of the stock pickups.
Great burst and finish mate. Looks class.
Kane that is awesome, trim the strings and get it into GOTM ASAP.
The judges seem to like logos too...
looks amazing Kane well done, great finish. A tip if you are entering it in GOTM you will improve your chances with a headstock logo to say you built it !