I'll try to have a look later today.
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I'll try to have a look later today.
Yep, looks ok. The rollers will only affect the neck pup and only in the rhythm position. In the lead position the master vol, treble tone and bass cut pots control whichever pickups are selected. Your bridge pickup will switch on and off just like the middle and neck.
The bass cut will work in the opposite direction to a normal tone, so at zero it will have no effect (normal) and at 10 will be maximum bass cut. It makes sense like this as having both the treble and bass at 10 will give the brightest sound, but it may seem strange at first.
Wiring all finished, checked the routing again and it fits like a glove.
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Did some more sanding on the body to get it really flat....used a flat piece of timber with 240 grit and did a wet sand.
Its amazing how uneven it was .....some areas i took it back to bare.
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Now im building up the primer coats and slowly sanding between coats.
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The final body colour has arrived from the paint place so will be waiting for coats to dry before i apply.
Awesome work.
nice job Nitro. As long as your sanding block piece of wood was flat ! Wiring looks too complicated for me.
what is the final colour going to be ?
Thanks Wokka, yea the block of wood was very flat, i checked beforehand with a steel ruler, in fact it was actually a piece of tazzie oak flooring cut to about 12 inches and the edges rounded. Worked a treat.
Final colour under wraps at the moment as it might not turn out, but will reveal if i have success.
no worries Nitro, sounds like the paint should have a cool effect if your not sure it will turn out. Hope it does buddy with your painting experience
Wow with this one im in it for the long haul!
been ages since i did any work on the old JM. Weather has been crap. Tried to do some finish base coats and the paint bloomed.
So i screwed in the neck..Presto..it cracked in 2 places. Out with the glue. So much for predrilled holes.
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So got to the stage of finishing the basecoat, then the timber blocks that i used to fill in the trem cavities, swelled...again due to hot and cold weather changes.. Back to the drawing board and out with the sanding blocks.
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decided to leave the next stage untill the weather settles down and the timber stabilises.
So now up to the finished basecoats...will be ready soon for the 2 top cats, fingers crossed..lol
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nice one Nitro what is the colour a chrome or silver ?
Got a bit of a terminator vibe going on there. You've had a few trials on this one, good to see the progress.
Nice job, love the silver
Welcome back Nitro. wow I've never had the neck crack like that, do you wax up the screws?
Ok, back again, body has final coats of clear on, its all dry and all i need is to cut and polish. Keeping colour under wraps until all assembled.
Started staining the neck but found large mill marks so back to the drawing board for some more sanding then a restain.
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All looking better now.
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COLOUR REVEAL.
Finished spraying the headstock. All up......4 filler primers, 4 silver basecoats, 3 of the candy apple red, 2 of clear. Then a resand and 2 more coats of cherry apple red and 3 2k clear coats. Doubled up on the last 2 coats to get depth. It worked.
Just waiting for decal to arrive, then a final clear to seal it, then cut and polish.
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That colour is really, really great
Ooooo. Very nice. Candies look amazing when done well.
Very nice red.
I'd use 2 clear coats at least over the decal if you don't want to leave a raised area where the decal goes. By nature it's very easy to sand through any raised edges in the clear round the decal and expose the edges of the decal sheet, so you need a bit of thickness in the clear to avoid doing that. (You may already be doing this but you said 'one final coat' so I had to say something just in case).
Really appreciate the advice Simon, will put at least 2 on.
Btw ive used 1k clear to finish the headstock, ill apply the headstock then clear....question.....will the next coat of clear stick without sanding as i dont want to ruin the decal, and im worried about sanding before decal application as it might leave a dead spot underneath. Any suggestion Simon or anyone reading this?
Finished all the coats on the body, been hanging for a week. Was finished in 2k nitro.
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did a buff and polish and have now completed the copper insulating.
All ready for headstock logo,reassemble, stringing and intonation. Already checked the wiring, all ok.
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Yummy and stuff.
Real nice job Nitro
Unless the clear's been left to dry for a couple of months, it should go on straight over the top. If in doubt, just drag some 400 over a couple of times with almost no force at all.
Really nice mate. Love that colour