Nice work wazz
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Nice work wazz
Excellent colour choice mate. Suits the style perfectly
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Looks the goods Waz...and trophy goes to Sonic who called it correctly back on page 5.Quote:
Originally Posted by wazkelly
cheers, Mark.
Yeah, made me test his theory on black & white photos to buy some time and throw everyone off the scent. Bloody good guesswork on his behalf.Quote:
Originally Posted by king casey
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I used up all of what was left over from the J Bass build and will post more details tomorrow night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hardcoretroubadour
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Good game everybody. :)
Looks great man :) classic.
Thanks Sonic.
Blew me away with your early call on what the colour might be and was a pretty damn good guess. You are very talented at what you do for a living.
Cheers,Waz
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But he only said it was towards the red end of the spectrum as opposed to the blue end), so the red, orange, yellow as opposed to green, blue or violet (indigo as a distinct separate colour in the spectrum is a still-perpetuated myth).
Lovely looking red, very impressed!
Also impressed that this thread has had over 28,000 views in 6 weeks!
Here is the secret recipe....Quote:
Originally Posted by Hardcoretroubadour
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The fountain pen ink is a very deep shade of red, similar to fresh blood or a nice drop of red wine with lots of deep burdundy tones. Initial stain coat was 3 parts ink to 1 part colortone cherry which was a very watery diluted batch from about 3 years ago.
2nd coat was full strength fountain pen ink as whilst the timber was a light colour it didn't go as dark as I thought it would. The back is a rather weird stringy grained bit of timber and the water based stain opened it up in a few places from swelling which required natural timber mate filling and light sand back that also stripped a small amount of colour off the back. Thought I had enough full strength ink left but had to add more & more cherry colortone to go the distance and probably the main reason why back is maybe 1 shade more cherry than burgundy.
Some of the grain on front helped to soak up the darker stain and it has come up quite a lush colour which is hard to capture in photos.
Bit of a race on to finish this within next few weeks as my wife reckons it would be a good birthday present for our eldest son who will be back home from where he works in NZ around mid July. 1st build where she has come out into the garage to watch what is happening.
Just ran out of TO tonight and about to order some more. Probably done around a dozen coats with half of them full strength and other half being 50:50 TO:Turps ratio. On this build also did a wipe all over with the diluted solution immediately after wet sanding application and found that helped to keep some of the finish layers intact and also smooth things out. 1st proper wet sand to be done in a few days and then a few more full strength coats before reassessing.
Cheers Waz, might look at that colour as a base for a burst on the reverse side of the next build.
Progress shots taken earlier today.....wet sanded back with 1500 grit W & D and these were taken after 2nd full strength TO coat was applied. All up, around 12 coats of TO so far.
The gloss is incredible. Looks amazing Waz
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Thanks Adam, still a way to go yet.
Just gorgeous Waz.
Wow wow WOW Waz! Beautiful work!
One look at that colour and finish and I said "Wow wow WOW Waz!"
and then noticed it had already been said :-(
Thanks guys, about half way mark and hopefully can flatten some of the ripples out and bring on more shine by the end of this next week.
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Looking good Waz
Already lost count on how many coats of TO and reckon it could be around 15 but not 20 yet. It has had 1 x 1200 wet sand about 7 or 8 coats ago, followed by 2 x 1500 wet sandings after a further 4 coats between sanding. Below shots show some of the blemishes that need to be knocked down every few coats to make sure end result turns out good....in these we have dust particles, probably fibre particles from the small rag used to apply finish, plus the dreaded runs, all of which disappear with a solid sanding session.
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Next shot is just after spending 90 mins doing a thorough 2000 grit wet & dry sand all over. Yes, the wet sanding does dull the surface a little bit and when doing this tonight it felt like I could have kept going with micro mesh pads all the way up to 12000 grit which would have polished things back to to a glossy shine.
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Still needs a few more coats though as the final polishing process strips quite a lot off. From here I may need to do 2000 wet sands after every 2nd or 3rd coat just to give it some tooth otherwise subsequent coats don't want to take hold as well which leads to runs and blemishes. An easy trap to fall into.
Thanks for posting your wet sanding method. It’s most useful for us beginners checking out how it’s done.
All good DarkMark.....the trick is in how it feels whilst still quite wet. Weird how the smoother it gets small bits like fine grains of sand appear but having done this many times that is quite normal. Just need to stop and rinse/wipe things down once you hear and feel the scratching happening.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkMark
Last night wet sanded from 2000 grit then switched to micro mesh pads 4000, 6000, 8000 & 12000.....
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Apologies for the blurry rear shot.
Smooth as glass but unfortunately went through in a couple of spots that required touching up with a bit more colour. Put another coat on today but discovered a few runs missed in the wet sanding and will have to wait for this coat to harden up a bit before sanding back those runs. All good as I can now just gradually build up a few more coats to sacrifice for the final polishing.
You’ve still got my attention. Interesting to see the difference in colour shade between the last two posts on this page, result of the lighting I assume. See her when she’s polished.
Yeah, poor lighting as taken after dark in the garage with just a single fluro for illumination and phone cameras just do their funky thing.
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Hi Was
I just got back to guitar building after a year trying so sell a yacht do a and few other projects. I will post some build details shortly.
I just caught up with your build which turned out to be a great suspense filled read.
Besides responding just to say Hi, I also wanted to mention an app ( called ColorID) I recently found for the iphone which identifies a colour and provides the digital numbers (I can't remember the technical term). Just point the phone at the colour and you get a name and number. There are some websites that you can then type in the number then fiddle with the numbers to change the shades. A lot of fun when trying to mix colours for a new guitar.
Cheers
Greg
Wa
Sounds like Shazam for colours.....what a great idea.
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2nd coat just applied after the ultra heavy wet sanding which makes a huge difference in helping to bring on the glassy shine.
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Colour still hard to capture as this was taken in a darker corner of the garage where all the guitars get hung up to dry.
Getting nicely shiny!
Gotta have it finished and gift wrapped by next Friday night.
Lightly wet sanded again with 2000 last night before applying vinyl stickers on front & rear of headstock. Applied another coat last night and then realised I didn't have enough left to finish things off. Thankfully local forum member Ozzbike had some and I am truly grateful for his assistance plus it was a good chance to catch up and see what he has been working on. Nice collection of Yamaha Basses too.
Here are a couple of shots taken about an hour ago, just before applying 4th TO coat on top. Apologies for weird colour variation due to poor lighting in my garage and the smartphone camera trying to compensate.
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Before anyone jumps up and down, yes, vinyl stickers do sit proud of the finish and it is exactly what I wanted to achieve by adding a tactile 3D element. A bit like the old raised lettering on business cards when that was all the go back in the 90's. If I wanted something smooth, transfer decal paper would have been used. When the phone isn't trying to compensate for poor light the actual colour is way darker and the black logos don't stand out as much, hence the 3D aspect with raised lettering.
Edit: Why Pugsley Guitars? As this will be a birthday gift for my eldest son he also has a pug dog as a pet and thought this would make him grin....MJK are his initials.
I was glad to help. I loved the guitar chat....bass playing and remembering our misspent....allegedly....younger years.Quote:
Originally Posted by wazkelly
I love the Tru Oil finish you have achieved. Your son is a lucky man.
Thanks again Ozzie.
If not for your backup supply of TO this build would have sat idle for a couple of days longer than I can afford in trying to have it completed by Friday night. Better make a start on the wiring loom soon. Maybe tomorrow night after work but will have to pack up all the other unfinished projects so that I don't get distracted.
Cheers, Waz
Logo's looking good, the way it stands proud definitely looks like a feature not an error. :)
Thanks Drew.
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Yep. Brings back those memories of printing a handful of cards at a time..whilst still wet then dunking them in the 'Virko' powder and run them on the conveyor under the 3 heating elements (on a stinkin' hot day in good ol' Perth).Quote:
Originally Posted by wazkelly
Cards go in one end ....and poppadoms come out the other.
Ahh the good ol' days.
cheers, Mark.
DarkOscar approves.
Looks good waz. I quite like the look of the vinyl decals, especially how the light catches them and really make them look 3D.
I screen printed on my headstock which sits a bit proud too, and I don't mind it at all.
Hi Waz
Have you tried the 50% TruOil and 50% turps mix for the last coat. Gives a great shine and very smooth.
Greg