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Ok so I just couldn't wait and the last coat of poly was a week ago so I decided to hit with foam pad on drill and some fine cut compound. And this is the result. Sorry bad lighting but you can get the picture. I will wait another week and then move to swirl remover and a coat of polishing compound.
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Nice! That's looking very shiny.
looks excellent Drummerdude. I only just noticed did you have to widen the control cavity for large pots ?
Yes and I just used dremel and sanded them bigger around pots area only..
nice one DD, that's what I thought. As long as the control plate covers the cavity, sure it does just
Way to go DD! :)
It's a sweet look, even without the cat.Quote:
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Hi Dude, initially 1 coat of tea and maybe 2 coats of steel wool rust solution but then stupidly added some ink pad black ink which turned everything crap and had to sand almost everything off. So all up it has 2 coats of tea and probably 2 or 3 of the rust. Only sanded the body to 120 and made that grade as smooth as it would get before applying the stains and then no more sanding, just straight onto the full strength Tru Oil for about 6 coats then reverted to 50/50 with turps to do the wet sanding application as that helped to apply the finish as well as smooth things out at the same time.Quote:
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i love your cat im a cat man as well, nice job on the tele may i ask what clear did you useQuote:
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Well Phrozin I am not really a cat guy more of a dog man but we rescued two baby boy kittens a couple years ago that my twin girls had to have. And everyone in the house thinks I hate the cats but secretly I don't mind them too much sometimes I actually pay attention to them;)..
Anyways to the guitar.. I used a water based polyurethane made by General Finishes.. you can see a picture of it in the thread.. I wanted to use nitro but didn't have good respirator or equipment so decided to try the poly and I am very happy so far..
Ok so tonight I decided that I couldn't wait to buff with extra fine swirl remover by 3m and then put a coat of wax on and polished. Oh my did it get deep gloss that polyurethane worked very well.. so then I shielded the cavities and assembled the body. All I have left is the headstock decal and some more coats of TO on the neck and I will do fret level, crown, dress and polish hopefully this weekend and then set up. I did upgrade the pickups and the pots, tone cap and the 3 way switch and put some killer abalone capped control knobs..I can't wait to give this to him and see what he thinks.
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Some of the pictures make it look very dark and it is not. But I am using my phone camera and I have to resize them to post to a lower resolution and the lighting is not ideal. Once I get it done I will use my good camera and then reduce size and edit to get good pictures. But the ones outside show the color contrast better..
Thanks Pablo
That looks amazing! I was hoping to get the quilted Tele but they're out of stock for a while and couldn't wait that long. Maybe next time...
Thanks I am building this one for a friend and he is the pastor of my church. He said his favorite colors were dark blue and green so it should be right up his ally. The quilted top takes a lot of care to protect it and I don't know if I would do another with such a thin veneer.
I think your friend will be amazed! And so am I, wonderful guitar and the knobs are cool looking. Are they Q-Part knobs?
Wow, very nice , lovely burst, and nice matching with those knobs
Wow Drummerdude, that is a truly excellent job, that quilt is glorious. what poly did you use?
Thanks guys for the kind words.. the knobs I found on Guitar Fetish. I also got the pickups there.. very reasonable prices.
The poly is a high performance polyurethane from General Finishes..
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Wow, ton of depth in that finish. Looks absolutely stunning.
Thanks Waz....
Love the finish man. Wish I could get a shine like that from poly! Great job.
cheers,
Gav.
Thanks Gav.. that was my first time using poly and I sprayed it light coats with about an hour and half between coats with light sanding between. I did 6 coats then let sit for 2 days and level sanded and then started over with a little heavier coats with sanding between. Then I level sanded and wet sanded going up to 2000. I used Naptha instead of water. Then I used 3000 grit on a drill attachment and that really gave a pretty good finish. I waited almost a week and used 3m finesse it to cut the finish further followed by zymol wax and buffed with buffing pad on the same drill attachment. I think I am going to build a buffer. I had to replace my heat pump so I kept the blower motor. I think I can use it to build a double head buffing station. I know you probably know all this stuff looking at your builds but just thought I would share for some newbies like me.
Love you build Gav..
Well still waiting on my decal so I went ahead and started the fret job. Leveled with a beam with sand paper 180 grit on one side and 400 on the other. Then re crowned, sanded with 600, 800 and 1500. After I get the last few coats of TO on neck I will end dress and then use the dremel with a polishing wheel and really polish the frets and then the set up.
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Ok well after long delay my decal finally arrived.. I am going to definitely just make my own from now on.. I'm just much more comfortable working with wood than technology.. so here it is.. now just some more clear on neck to set the decals and then assembly and setup.. and at least 1 project should be complete..
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Nice decal! Did you design it yourself?
I designed it but had some else make it with the metallic inks.
wow! coming along awesomely
i really like the way you did that back to match its thinking out of the box your workmanship is wonderful on the staining and final shine its nice and flat you gave yourself a good shot at a excellent shine well done, not keen on the pearl white pickguard but thats just a taste thing you should put him in the gotm 👍
Hey thanks phrozin... I just finished it up tonight except the final setup.. your paint work is epic.. if I can get some good pics I may enter it in GOTM.hlad to see you healed up and back to work. One of these days I will try a solid color paint job. I just got a spray gun and did the polyurethane on this build. It was the first time I used one.. I learned a lot about how to adjust the gun but still need practice..
Thanks again for the comments
Ok so it's finally done. Thanks for all the support and I think I am going to throw my hat in for GOTM.Attachment 20306Attachment 20307Attachment 20308Attachment 20309Attachment 20310
Really great looking guitar there. Give yourself a big pat on the back!
So, what's the next one?
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Must resist....
Oh man. That is a killer finish.
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