Oh yeah, that looks the goods. So elegantly sexy in it's naked state.
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Oh yeah, that looks the goods. So elegantly sexy in it's naked state.
So today is polishing day!
Wasn't sure how I should polish Aussie Oil, so tired in a small spot with the Meguiar's Ultimate Compound and it looks like it works great!
Photo with only the top right hand 'horn' of the guitar polished:
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Looking good Fred, dont think i am too far behind you, hope to get the neck glued in soon.
Looks great Fred, nice result with the Aussie oil
Looking good Fred. Does the Aussie oil have a .....well, oily feel or does it eventually dry hard and leave a satin finish?
@wazkelly: it's not really oily. It's made with shellac and other products and it is almost dry after about 5-10mins, and it looses the slightly slippery side after about an hour. From what they say it's meant to be used on small wood items, with very little at a time, and you can apply 4-5 coats in an hour. But it is quite labour intensive as it's meant to be rubbed and buffed in, little by little.
If I had not been waiting for the acrylic on the headstock to cure (and busy building other guitars...) I could have been finished 3 weeks ago.
I'm pretty happy with this product. Very forgiving as it doesn't stain, so if you mess up one spot, just come back later to it, or sand it back and apply again, you can't see the joins.
I'll have to try on a stain next to see if it turns yellow or not.
Definitely worth a try!
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Cheers mate. Sounds like it might be a better option than TO perhaps.
Never used TO, so can't comment on that. But I found it pretty easy to use. Would be good to get someone used to TO to test it and compare.
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And here we go, all shiny!
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Nice mate, i reckon i could of saved myself 100years of grief by keeping it natural, but i am glad i went the way i did.
Very very clean and simple Fred. Me likes.
Great job with the Aussie oil Fred. I never thought of polishing it with the ultimate compound - that's a neat idea. To my mind, even though it's more labour intensive (you basically end up polishing nearly every coat) the end result is even better than TO and with fewer coats. Anyway your beast is really looking nice. There's something so nice about a simple natural finish over figured maple. Will be great to see her assembled!
cheers,
Gav.
Cheers guys.
@Gavin: I only thought of using the ultimate compound and scratch x 2.0 because I was polishing the headstock... I tired and it makes a big difference!
Otherwise I've been trying to install the electronics tonight. I soldered the pickups and tested them okay, then started trying to fit the pots in the body... until I realised that the 2x tone pots' ground connections via the shielding of the other cable had come loose...
I was trying to fix it, but I think I'm too tired, starting to get angry and keeping the warm soldering iron way too long around the pots...
So I leave it at that for now and will get back to it tomorrow with a fresh mind!
A pro result Fred, awesome
Was looking at the distributor for Aussie oil, and u-beaut polishes is just a few suburbs away from me, definitely going to try this, thanks Fred for using this haha ...
Okay, soldered it back together.
Let's try again!
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No one got injured... yet!
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And we're in and working!
Yeah!
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And here we go, 11x temporary strings on (one got used to pull the Jack socket in place) and tuned!
Still have to glue the nut and fit the permanent strings and we'll be done!
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Thats come up a treat Fred
I always check my wiring before i install, otherwise if it fails it leads to a tanty and choice words, but sometimes even after install and all my best efforts theres a no go :mad:
If i am having a moment i.e tired and a little sweary, i put everything away.
Looks awesome Fred. I'm liking the natural finish on this. I may have to have a crack at using Aussie Oil one day
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@andrew: thanks. I reckon I should get shares into this company now! :-)
@tonyw: I definitely checked the cabling at least 3x times before I got it in! I ended up replacing my direct soldering of the tone pots casing to shielding braid by a more flexible cable as I thought that it had too much risk of snapping again when installing the wiring harness in the body...
These pots are a bit big for the f hole on this body and I had to twist them around a fair bit to get them in the body... so I really didn't want to have to get them out again!
Anyway, seems all good now!