Mmmmmmm orange....
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Mmmmmmm orange....
Finally some progess. Life has well and truly gotten in the way of this build, but managed to get a bit done this afternoon.
http://imgur.com/cHvp3dW.jpg
Got some shaping done on the back side.
http://imgur.com/R8Ro22f.jpg
And had to enlarge and extend the hole for the electrosocket jack.
http://imgur.com/WCffbPu.jpg
Fits well and there's enough room for the jack now. Still want to chamfer the edges a little to get it flush.
nice one Pabs. So you got to fill those darned pre-drilled holes for a square jack plate !
I love orange guitars. Looking good Pabs.
Also, digging through my spare parts the other week, I realised I had all the bits i need to put together a bass. I was planning on doing a comic decoupage, but couldn't get it to work satisfactorily. So, on a whim grabbed a can of gold paint i had left over and...
http://imgur.com/EC54Za0.jpg
http://imgur.com/tbhb55O.jpg
Something a bit different.
cool looking bass Pabs, what sort of gold paint are you using ? I am using White Knight for my tele.
Interested to know what clear coat you are planning
Nice idea for the bass there Pabs!
Wokka, it was 'fiddly bits' el cheapo enamel. Considering not clear coating it and letting it wear through. This is my brother's old crappy bass that he 'did up' 8 or 10 years ago. It was a wreck. All the hardware was stuffed and had been glued to the body with wet paint.
nice one Pabs, should look cool once it's finished. Hardware glued on wet paint that sounds like a really good move - not.....
productive pabs, looking forward to seeing the tele progress