First of all you can run a radius of timbermate around your neck to body to hide any joint (it does not crack) secondly before you put paint directly onto the timber you should really look at sealing it first .
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First of all you can run a radius of timbermate around your neck to body to hide any joint (it does not crack) secondly before you put paint directly onto the timber you should really look at sealing it first .
if you are using spray cans, I simply use an auto high build primer, sticks to timber just fine. Rustoleum's high build primer works well too
Willem, there's alot of questions there. Most builders paint the neck and body separately mainly due to being too bulky to work with and hang if you glue the neck in early in the build. You should be able to get a smooth transition. I'd try and sand the marks out of the fingerboard, you can wrap say 240 grit paper around an eraser will curve the same shape as the radius of the fingerboard.
As for the black paint for the headstock, you may end up using half the can if you spray several coats so I wouldn't worry about the shelf life of the can, will more than likely have to throw it away after a certain period.
As the others said prime the body and neck before the white coats. Generally spend a bit more on the spray cans will be a better quality. Post any photos of any problem areas of the build will give us a better idea to get the best way to fix any issues
Thanks heaps guys I cant believe I almost forgot primer thanks for the recommendation Stan. Wokka, if I can actually track down an eraser for once I'll give that a shot thanks I'll probably take it slow though. As for the neck though, once I have it glued and clamped to set roughly how long will it take before I can keep working?
Leave it for at least 24 hours. Depending on weather/temperature it might cure faster, but as its such a critical part of the build, best off not taking chances.
yeah Willem as Pablo said let the neck glue dry for at least 24 hours before you move it or put any tension on the neck. Leave it clamped up for the whole period.
Have you got the scale length sorted before you glue the neck in place ?
right so I've sanded absolutely everything back to 400 and now I'm looking to make the necessary adjustments to the scale length.
First off, I've remeasured and at the moment it looks like it is 312mm from nut to 12th and 321mm from 12th to bridge on the low e saddle wound all the way forward with the neck pickup in, with the neck pickup out the measurement sits at about 318mm and I did some measuring on the pocket and neck heel and it looks like taking about 2mm off the neck will allow the heel to reach the back of the pocket
My question is, which part to take out, either the top part which is actually hitting the pickup surround and stopping the heel from making contact as pencilled in here:
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(it's just that little rectangle and the pencil is a rough approximation)
or, should I file that entire face back so its uniform and a bit simpler and leaves a bit more space in the cavity?
Thanks for your input this obviously isn't something I want to rush into which is complicated by the fact that the only files I've found around the place so far seem to be large bastard files which I don't want to put anywhere near my guitar
Hey Willem,
you need to use the measurement with the neck pup in place. You need to take off about 6mm perpendicular to the fingerboard (toward the 22nd fret) and more than likely take off enough of the heel so the new face of the fingerboard sits flush with the neck pup and ideally you want a 12th to saddle measurement of about 315/316mm should give you intonation.
Here's a pic of the offset of my 22nd fret, I had to take a bit of meat off mine.
If your not sure about this I can help you bandsaw the meat off, thats what I did very late in the build so at least you haven't started the painting
sound like a plan wokka I might have to take you up on that but I'll see what I can do myself I've got my dads birthday this weekend and school starts next week so I'm probably going to be a bit busy
no worries Willem, don't bother doing any more sanding as it may get some small scratches on the side of the neck putting it through the bandsaw on the side but shouldn't be much damage. THis should have been the first thing to sort out.
I never found out till the gluing the neck stage and the neck was all finished