Great work mate, you'd be getting keen to complete soon!
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Great work mate, you'd be getting keen to complete soon!
The time has come to sand and polish the TL!
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Nice work Bungee, the grain coming through that colour looks great! is that naughty oil or poly?
That is spray clear acrylic
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OMG! Just polished my Benecaster Body! Wow. It as worth all the hard work.
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It's hard to get a pic without all the reflections. :-)
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Sweet!
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Nice finish Bungee, you have really brought out the grain and great job on the clear.
Looks very nice the grain is popping out.
that is a very nice guitar effort mate, i like it
lookin' schinie!
Wow, presume that is DT CG and it looks great. Lucky score with that that much grain in the body and it has really popped underneath that glassy topcoat.
Very nice!
Wow, getting closer to being finished... I decided I wanted to age it a bit so set out on a quest for road worn and relicing tutorials, also visited the guitar lounge in Sydney to check out some custom shop road worn Tele's.
After several hours of sanding, bashing and staining I am pretty happy with the result, i have gone back to the black pickguard and rubbed it back for a Matt finish, also used wood dyes and mixed up a colour for the neck, still working on it but feel like I am on home stretch.
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Not a big fan of relicing unless its played in, but each to his own, i do like the way the grain pops though.
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Will Kelly's book goes into a fair bit of detail about relic-ing. Especially the hardware.
Thanks for the resource. Not sure how much ageing to do on the hardware. I will check out his book.Quote:
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Cheers
Ben
I've got a copy of this book stashed away somewhere. The author builds and relics a Tele as the second build example in some detail. Not my cup of tea but he does a great job. Your Tele is coming along nicely
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After mixing and testing, it took me a while but I finally got a colour for the neck that I am happy with.
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I fitted the string ferrules using a soldering iron, that worked a treat! I definitely need a drill press next time I do string through ferrules.
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Bunge, I don't understand. :confused:did you solder the the string through ferrules in?
Hey Andy. I read somewhere that when installing the ferrules, rather than hit them in, you heat them up by placing the tip of a soldering iron into the ferrule and push down, this melts the clear coat and basically glues the ferrule into the body. It worked a treat :-)Quote:
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Good idea. Hadn't thought of that. might try it when I finish the finish......which is some time away...
Yes warm them up and they slip straight in, no banging