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Was lucky enough to get this kit at the summer sale in Feb and have started to make some progress with it.
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It seems I've been inspired by this kit in a similar way to Dave E, in that I'll try to do an inlay (never tried to do one before so this will be a learning curve). Gav's tutorial has come along at the right time.
Timing is EVERYTHING!! :)
The 'vintage-y' part comes from deciding to do a sunburst like you'd find on a jazz guitar.
Body sanded with 240, 320 then grainfilled (twice) the long open pores in the laminate surface and sanded with 400.
Made a 50-50 mix of Colortone vintage amber and lemon yellow for the main colour
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and used cherry red and black for the burst.
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It now has two coats of sanding sealer on it and I have a few hours of cleaning up binding ahead.
You're right there Gav. I've gone for a straight lined geometric shape, trying to be art-deco. It might work or might not.
Grant
holy cow, Grant, you've nailed the vintage jazz burst look, terrific job
That burst is so well done. Awesome work man
Good goddamn. Perfection.
mmmm... jazzy. Very nice.
Thanks Stan, Nick, Pabs and Weirdy.
To give you an idea where I'm going with the inlay here is a pic of a D'Angelico headstock.
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I'll try to use the 'sword' part of their inlay in my design and put an art deco fan shape on top.
I'm liking the stairstep truss rod cover as well.
Wow excellent looking burst Grant. Good luck with the head stock inlay