Looking awesome so far Rohan, great work!
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Looking awesome so far Rohan, great work!
looking great Rohan, look forward to the final result
The colour looks awesome Rohan - great work! Are those nut files? Very jealous. :)
Cheers,
Gavin.
Hey guys,
I have done three top coats on the neck now. Should that be sufficient? The videos suggest two to three top coats. Would there be any reason I should need to apply more on the neck? Anything visual I should look out for?
Also, have completed three top coats on the body as well a couple of days ago and will be applying a fourth coat this afternoon. How much of a difference does doing the additional coverage shown in the "Achieving a high gloss with Wudtone" thread actually have?
Thanks,
Rohan.
Wow, I feel like I flirted with disaster today.
I made some pretty rookie mistakes that hopefully others may avoid if they read this.
It was time to put the hardware on the headstock so I watched the video a few times, did my measuring and re-measuring an so on.
Then I selected the drill piece. I am not particularly experienced (ie. basically none) but as it turns out I selected a drill piece waaaaaay too small for the pilot hole.
On the first attempt, I practically stripped the screw head but I managed to get it out.
Then I drilled the pilot hole bigger with the next size up drill piece.
On this attempt (I used another screw) I actually snapped the head of the screw off. Luckily I was able to use pliers to get that one out.
So I was feeling pretty miserable at this point. However, I was lucky enough to receive another kit just this morning so I borrowed the screws from in there and was able to finish the job... after drilling the pilot hole even larger!
Just for the record, the screws are 2.5mm and the pilot holes need to be 2.0mm. Any less and you will probably end up just like me.
Tomorrow, my body will have cured for a week. Time to get that going as well ;)
Cheers,
Rohan.
http://pitbullguitars.com/wp-content...dstock_hw1.jpg
Hey Rohan - the save is the important thing , so well done! The headstock decal looks awesome.
Cheers,
Gavin.
Looking great Rohan...
Until DB recommended this kit from StewMac I spent many hours cursing my misfortune of having to try and retrieve screws where the head had snapped off.
Cannot recommend this kit highly enough. It has the screw starters inside of it as well as many brilliant tools for setting the saddles, etc. etc.
http://pitbullguitars.com/wp-content...0c2p-image.jpg
Sometimes you just come across a dodgy screw. One of the screws that came in my bass kit had no phillips slot cut into it. Breaking heads off is pretty common.
I wish I could blame it all on a dodgy screw but I was certainly trying to turn it pretty hard...
Was having some fun today shielding up the cavity of my top coat cured body... until I ran out of shielding tape which made me a sad panda.
Gavin, I think that awesome toolkit will have to go into next decade's budget given all the stuff I have been buying lately! ;)