Gav, this book suggests the reverse of what we do. Dye wood, seal then grain fill. I've got some scrap wood for testing..
https://books.google.com.au/books?id...ed=0CDEQ6AEwCA
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Gav, this book suggests the reverse of what we do. Dye wood, seal then grain fill. I've got some scrap wood for testing..
https://books.google.com.au/books?id...ed=0CDEQ6AEwCA
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Gav, please sit down. We have to talk.
While we all great appreciate the beauty of the guitars that you seem to be birthing on an almost weekly basis, we believe that the incredible results and the speed with which you are achieving them is unsettling to the other residents here at Pitbull Gardens. Now I'm not saying I believe these rumours, but there have been some whispers that such results are not possible for mere mortals and that you must be taking some performance enhancing.... what's the word.... "substances".
Now I'm sure everything is quite legit, but maybe for the sake of appearances it would be good if you just tried to slow down the pace a little and maybe tried to make a few mistakes or something.
Look I'm really glad we've had this talk, and I'm sure we will have no more "problems" of this sort going forward.
;)
Yes, as you can tell, I'm jealous. Great job as usual Gav. A truly beautiful guitar.
@andrew - very interesting! this warrants some experimenting. I wonder how to sand off the grain filler without taking off the dye. carefully i suspect! :)
@fretty - ROFL. damn man. that's the problem with having a stack of kits and working from home. not much actual work seems to get done!! for the sake of my reputation i better slow down a little ;).
cheers,
Gav.
Fretty was too polite, I'm calling you out Gav: you sold your soul to the Devil in trade for shiney guitar skills...
Looks like technique is basically:Quote:
Originally Posted by gavinturner
1. Dye Wood
2. Seal Wood
3. Grain fill, clean up.
4. Final finish
http://www.woodworkerssource.com/blo...ng-techniques/
@stan, i really wish that was true!
cheers,
Gav.
I rather like the hexadecimal numbering of you builds Gav.
There are 10 types of people in the world.
Those who understand ........ and those who don't ( I leave it up to those who know to finish the line )
01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001
Beat me to it, Weirdbits. :)
Excellent work weirdy
Weirdy, isn't that binary, not hex?
nice one wierdy :).
cheers,
Gav.
Yeah Pest, it's the binary representation of the word binary in ASCII in response to Dave's 'there are 10 types of people...' post. If Dave wrote the joke in hex it wouldn't have quite the same impact.
Hex is just binary shorthand for humans. Binary is base 2, hex is base 16, four bits in binary represents 16 (0-15), so every four bits can be represented by one hex digit. To convert the binary to hex, just work right to left four bits at a time
So, ASCII encoding for the word binary in hex is:Code:0110|0010 0110|1001 0110|1110 0110|0001 0111|0010 0111|1001
6|2 6|9 6|E 6|1 7|2 7|9
0x62 0x69 0x6e 0x61 0x72 0x79
Being a coder, Gav can only count up to 1023 on his fingers.
(By the way Gav, fantastic looking result, a masterpiece)
Hey guys,
I was never a strat guy, but...
with a bone nut finally installed on this baby I've been noodling around on for a week now and I'm just so impressed with this kit. Maybe my playing is improving (not likely) but there's just oodles of sustain and those stock pickups really sound amazing. I'm planning on winding a set of my own pickups when the materials arrive, but the stock offerings are really, really nice! I can see why Callum loves his PBG strat so much. For surf stuff, or that single coil rock sound, she just sounds excellent.
cheers,
Gav.
All of that is true! I tend to have a subtle slapback delay.... Man I never knew I could build something so nice sounding!
Agreed re: stockies. I keep resisting hotter singles though... I think a p90/filitron guitar must be next after the 7 :D maybe a hollow body!