looks freaking amazing dude!
cheers,
Gav.
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looks freaking amazing dude!
cheers,
Gav.
nice job Tim was well worth taping off the binding.
Can't wait to see how it looks with some clear coats !
Thanks for the feedback lads :-) Can't wait to get some clear on her tomorrow!
Love the colour.
Thanks Fretworn :-)
2 clear coats applied so far and very happy with how she's looking!
Pretty poor lighting in these photos but you can get the general idea...
oh, very nice, great job
drool....
cheers,
Gav.
looks excellent Tim well done !
Beautiful color/binding combo!
Gav, stan, Woks and Jeff: cheers gents, still feeling very happy with how it's all going. I had to strip back to the primer in a small section yesterday as some major bubbling occurred in one section. I think it may have reacted with the detergent I was using when wet sanding because I only sanded that area to get a stray bug out of the clear coat. That or it could have been bug juice that did it..
Anyway I resprayed and it's coming along nicely again!
Any ideas how many coats I should go for? I'm using acrylic clear if that makes a difference ?
So a bit of an update on my tele build.
I cut out the headstock shape yesterday and have finished the clear coats. Just waiting for it to cure so I can do a final wet sand and polish.
Any ideas on what is the recommended amount of time to let acrylic clear cure? I've seen people say anything from 1 week to 3 months so a little unsure about this. I'm in Melbourne if that helps. It's bloody cold at the moment.
Received a nice new bridge with brass saddles, which I'm very pleased with. I'm almost certain it's the same one GFS sell for $24 USD plus postage and I found it for a fraction of that on ebay.
Have done a mock build and think that I may need to route a the bridge pickup cavity slightly larger. Will wait until I get the toneriders I've ordered from Adam until I start contemplating this though.
A couple more pics.
Gorgeous. I love Surf Green. It's probably my fav solid colour for guitars.
She's come up beautiful, a real classic.
I'm not sure I'd be contemplating sanding acrylic after just 1 week in this weather. I'd say more like 3 weeks (min), but others might be able to give a more accurate time frame.
Sniff test. Put your nose on it and sniff. If you can still smell solvents (after a week, you will) then it's not ready. I'd say at least 3 to 4 weeks.
classic, just right, well done
Thanks for the kind words and advice :-)
I've been sniffing my guitar regularly, which is worrying my girlfriend slightly but I've assured her it's a necessary part of the build..
I guess I'll just play the waiting game now... A dangerous game as I just keep buying stuff for the build with money I don't have when I have no painting to occupy myself with:-)
On that note. For anyone who's interested, GuitarAust are trialling free postage for 3 months with packages over $50. I just bought some parchment pickguard blanks, some cts 250k pots and a radiused sanding block, all of which seem to be good quality.
Also found some car buffing drill attachments on ebay that I might stick to my orbital sander and see how that goes with the buffing process. My drill is gutless so thought I'd see how the sander goes on my test piece.
what a beaut, the binding really complements the colour, great finish as well
Thanks mate :-) Hopefully it will shine up a whole lot more once it's been wet sanded and buffed
Really loving this build dude. She's gonna look amazing with the shine brought up. If you are impatient for the curing to finish, you could get an IR lamp to help it along. I got a jumbuck outdoor heater from bunnings - best $60 I ever, ever spent. But that's just me - a completely impatient bastard. These days I hit the body with the IR after every coat and then with a few longer IR sessions once the last coat has gone on. A couple of days after the last coat and she's ready to polish :). Word on the grapevine is that even DB has one of these greed shed miracles at his place :P :P .
cheers,
Gav.
Haha cheers for the info Gav, may have to look into getting one of those. It's still bloody cold in Melbourne so I had thought about just putting it in front of the heater in the living room whilst we have it on anyway. Thought the fumes might be a bit toxic though...
I ordered a notched straight edge from pablopepper recently. It arrived the other day and I couldn't be happier with the quality! I've already taken apart my strat and used the straight edge to help with a proper set up, which worked really well. Just about to give my tele a proper set up too while I wait for the acrylic clear to cure.
Pabs was also kind enough to chuck in a couple of picks he made, which I'm really impressed with. They're super thick, which I don't normally go for but the contoured edges make them really nice to play with. I haven't used any other picks since he sent these ones!
Can't recommend this highly enough!
Hi Tim,
I'm the same love my fret ruler and the picks really give a good bity sound
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yep, Pabs does plastic well... (never thought I'd type that...)
cool, how much are the pabs straight edges? i could do with one of those
Super reasonably priced Ben. Best to give Pabs a PM to check, not sure if pricing varies depending on what scale lengths you need. You won't be disappointed!
Well pablopepper has done it again! I ordered a set of tele router templates to help enlarge the pickup cavity in my current build (and bring me one step closer to a scratch build) and they arrived a mere 3 days later. I've left the brown paper on them so they show up in the photo but they're the same high quality plastic as the straight edge I got recently. Will make some templates from mdf using the plastic one's as master templates (as pablo suggested) and post pics of my progress.
Oh and I forgot to add, he also threw in some radius gauges, which also look great!
good stuff Tim, I got some of the radius gauges as well are very cool
Bit of an update. Have made a wooden copy of the plastic template pablo sent me recently. I didn't have any double sided tape so i used a trick I saw on Crimson guitars where Ben puts masking tape down then uses super glue to smear on the two opposing pieces. This worked really well and I was able to easily remove the templates from each other without any glue getting on them.
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I then set about routing the bridge pickup and control panel slightly larger to fit the cts pots and tonerider pups I plan to use.
Following this I also wet sanded the body down removing most of the orange peel with 600 grit then moving up gradually to 2000. I then used turtle wax scratch remover and maguiers polish to get a nice shine up.
nice one Tim that is really coming along nicely, nice shine !
Love the table router must make life easier and you nailed the template you copied, well done
Nothing to see here......look away, look away..... [disengage envy mode]
Too late. Envy mode engaged... Table top router... Amazing color and finish... Envy mode reaching critical levels....
Oh, so you found that you did need to enlarge the pickup routes for toneriders? Good to know.