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Been a while since I have had time to get back to this ...re build.

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So I have filled all the ash grain as much as I could with wood filler. It’s all been primed and sanded as flat as I’m willing to put time into.

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I had never tried stripes before so tried to measure everything out as precise as I could and put the lines out

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Happy enough for a first attempt at it. There is some blue bleeding into the cream lines and there is that “tide line” there too. Anyone any advice on how to clean it up a bit? Or is it one of those things that is gona cause more hassle than it’s worth?
Regardless of the slight bleeding I am going to spray the cream lines with a few coats of lacquer first, and then go for the whole body.


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Whoops. Anybody any ideas? Try to glue? Or take off and try filler and spray over?


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I'd glue it with superglue. As it's before clears you should be able to touch that up pretty easily.

Also with the bleeding, you probably want better quality masking tape, that will help enormously with getting a nice clean edge. The little ridge is pretty unavoidable, but once you build up clears you won't be able to see it.

Bummer about that broken neck pocket. I would go with a CA fix too.
You'd never get any bog or filler to adhere properly and would lack any integral strength. As it is, gluing the broken piece may or may not be strong enough, but I reckon it's still the best option.
There's no real load there, but an accidental bump of the neck could re-break it.

Like the racing stripe idea. I've never done any striping, but funny thing is, my brain automatically went the opposite way. Doing the cream stripes over the blue. Don't know it would have yielded a different result though.

Have you ever thought about just top loading the pickups and not worry about mounting rings? Alternatively there could possibly be metal ones out there or make your own from brass or aluminium.
EVH didn't care for them on lots of his guitars.

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The problem with no pickup rings and direct mounting is the problem that started this in the first place, the oversized and not well shaped pickup routs:

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Any direct mounted pickups will look rather silly sitting in there.

Unless there's a cunning plan in the offing, Freakystyley seems to have missed the opportunity to fill the routs to make them a normal size, and has also left the two strange holes at the top and bottom of each rout unfilled as well. Any filling would now require a respray.

My only suggestion to mount the pickups without more filling and painting is to get some clear acrylic to make a mounting plate for the centre section, and spray the reverse with the blue and cream to match the blue and the stripes. You'll need to paint the reverse to hide the extra large routs. But you'll need to be comfortable routing out (or cutting out) standard humbucker-sized holes in acrylic/perspex to do so (and not scratch the surface whilst doing so).

As McCreed said, I would glue the little neck pocket wing. However, I would use epoxy and just push it into the break without removing it.
Epoxy will be just as strong in that area and less brittle so may take the knock that McCreed mentions without re-breaking.

I love the 'Go Faster' lines.

Cheers
Ricky

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Originally Posted by Simon Barden

The problem with no pickup rings and direct mounting is the problem that started this in the first place, the oversized and not well shaped pickup routs:

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0825fb5973.jpg

Any direct mounted pickups will look rather silly sitting in there.

Unless there's a cunning plan in the offing, Freakystyley seems to have missed the opportunity to fill the routs to make them a normal size, and has also left the two strange holes at the top and bottom of each rout unfilled as well. Any filling would now require a respray.

My only suggestion to mount the pickups without more filling and painting is to get some clear acrylic to make a mounting plate for the centre section, and spray the reverse with the blue and cream to match the blue and the stripes. You'll need to paint the reverse to hide the extra large routs. But you'll need to be comfortable routing out (or cutting out) standard humbucker-sized holes in acrylic/perspex to do so (and not scratch the surface whilst doing so).

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Matt black paint inside pickup cavities would help to disguise things.

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Originally Posted by wazkelly

Matt black paint inside pickup cavities would help to disguise things.

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Great idea


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