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Thanks it is torture! I am a little worried I may have sanded through a little bit on the sides and the back. I may live with it if so.
In other news, I ordered some sweet genuine fender pearloid tuners to hold myself over. I found that they have 2 "nubs" (my technical term) on each, so I went onto Thingverse and found a jig that someone designed for drilling "nub holes" (also my technical term). I had it 3d printed by someone else and am waiting for it to arrive. Unfortunately in the mean time my neck got lots of blush on the bottom because I let it sit on its back like an idiot. I bought blush remover and it is coming soon (it was back ordered of course). I may have to buy another kit just to use up all of this extra product ;) (if anyone is interested in the gold ones that came with the kit, let me know).
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Mate its looking good so far.
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So, I couldn’t wait any longer. I had to do some more wet sanding. I did 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500, and 3000 alternating directions. I still have some slight orange peel and some sanding marks. Should I start over at 800 to get the orange peel out? I assume the sanding marks will buff out with compound and cutting waxes right? Here is a video showing the imperfections. https://imgur.com/gallery/kqp69ql
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Looks a little ripply to me. Look its personal choice. Personally I don't like it when it looks like a perfect poly finish. but if you want a mirror finish, i'd put some more clear coats on and cut it back to level. you don't want to wet sand through the clear coats.
I usually wet sand 600 to level, then go up the grades using micro mesh pas, then cut then polish.
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So it is definately rippled but the scratches are gone after compound, medium and light polish, and scratch remover. It could use a sand down and more lacquer, but I am going to live with it and play it for a while. If I get ambitious, I will fix it down the road. I love her as-is. Now to build her after one more week of curing. Here is a new video with mocked up hardware post polish:
https://imgur.com/gallery/uYKPKqF
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I finished!! Here are some pics. I originally dyed the headstock yellow and had custom tuff dog decals. The color was not great and the decals were rippled, so I repainted with encore brown lacquer and then more clear. I wet sanded, and polished the enter neck then put everything together and strung it up. I love the way it looks and sounds. Thank you all for your tremendous help.
Not bad for a first build! See pics below
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Hah, I just saw this on Reddit and wondered if it was a Pitbull kit. The top ‘horn’ of these teles is a giveaway. Nice work!
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Well done! Love the burst! Nice little detail on the headstock too, where the colour 'breaks'!
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That was an accident. I was too lazy to sand down, so I just went back over the clear with tinted lacquer and then more clear. When I sanded down, I went through to the original clear in a couple of spots and loved the look :)
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Thanks my fellow Redditor!
