White GR-1SF Build

worth the effort PK, no point building an axe you aren't happy with.
Looks like a good fix mate

Hi Scott n Wokka

I've drilled out 3 of the 4 holes and by the time I got to the full drill depth what was left of the plugs came straight out. only the low E hole stayed put but it was more askew than the others. So basically I've successfully made two of the holes oval shaped.
Give they are under the tuners no one will know. the last one to be drilled will be the G string turner. that a cpl of mm out. SO I might give that one more than 24 hours for the glue to set.

I've plugged the bridge post holes. I had to get 12mm dowel. I put it in the drill press and used a file to machine it down to 11.5 mm or a perfect fit.

I've started light sanding . I am about to grain fill but am in two minds of using Timber-Mate or the tined variety of grain filler from the Big 'G' shed., it's too far to go to the Blue shed. I've got a tin of grain filler but it's sort of opaque, not clear. So I am thinking it has gone off in the cpl of years since it was last opened.

Cheers PK

Building the 6 pos rotary switch. so far just the three caps, and 5 burnt fingers.

caps ar .047, .023 and .01uf. need to put two more in. .006 and .003.

PK

nice soldering PK, I have trouble with 1 cap but 5 in a small area, wow thats keen !

Yeah, gotta agree with Woks on that one ... I couldn't do it without my magnifying glass and even then it'd be pinch in such a small area!

... but great stuff Kells, keen to see what see ends up sounding like with the variety of caps ... what p/ups are you putting on her? staying standard or going something special?

Came across this "capacitor comparison" on Seymour Duncan's site some time ago when doing some research ... don't know if you've seen it but it gives a good idea of what different tones can be achieved, although of course the biggest factor is the p/ups that one runs

http://www.seymourduncan.com/tonefie...ize-your-caps/

I'm glad I'm not the one having to feed that through an F hole...... good luck!

@Scott @Wok @fretty

the trick was to put schink wrap over the leads that cross over. this is actually build 2. build 1 was like a spiders web of little wires everywhere.
The in out is a bit sneaky as I am using a length of shielded push back, covered in shrink wrap. the caps will out to earth, while the input comes from the Vol pot via the cotton covered inner.

Putting it in will be easy as long as I do it before I glue the neck on. but pretty sure it will fit through the pup holes as these builds are true hollow body, unlike the 175 and 335 type kits.

Cheers PK

good to see some progress PK

Grain filling completed.

I used a mix of watered down timber mate with some water based Black and Jarah colouring. it brought the mix down to a lovely chocolate brown colour. I applied this with a paint brush applying up and down and across the grain.

This kit has a quite nice grain patern, but has such a large amount of glue overrun that it would be near impossible to clean it out.
So it will get sprayed white.

Cheers PK

U used some Timbermate mixed with water and colour and applied this all over.
Several hours of sanding and there is a grain pattern where before there was nothing to see.

I've done a 1500 sand and applied a layer of tung oil to seal the grain ever further.

The pattern does look nice enough to save but would need to be done witha tobacco burst or similar to hide the glue over run from the binding.

easy way is to go ahead with solid white.

PK