AJ's TL-1A

have started on the TL now, have sanded the body etc etc... and have applied 2 coats after using some Old baltic pine stain to even out the difference in-between the 3 pieces of alder to make the body.
Am not using clear lacquer this time... am experimenting with "naughty oils" ....lol


the first coating was straight T.O. sanded down with green scotch brite the second coating is laced with gold ghost pearl and thinned to 50% as a base for the rest of the coats that will be plain ( straight clear).

Although the pictures don't pick up the shimmer, it does look quite interesting in the flesh.

first coating : Attachment 597 Attachment 598

second coat with the ghost pearl:
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now to do the rest of the coats over the next few weeks.

nice one AJ, looks excellent. FW old baltic one of my favourite colours. The alder kits I've seen always have a lighter/darker piece so wouldn't worry too much.
Should come up a treat with more naughty oil.
We've run out of pizza matey so can you please cook up a couple more ?

think I'm finished doing the body of the TL-1A with true oil now.. Lot of mucking around to use the true oil.. I added gold ghost peal to the second coat, it doesn't show up in the pictures, but it has a nice gold sparkle from different angles in the sun light. Now on to start on the neck, still waiting for the fret board protector and the routing attachment to turn up in the post.. should be here by the 9th I hope. The protector will make fret leveling a lot easier than masking off the fret board when leveling, crowing and polishing the frets.
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Looks good AJ as always. How many coats of tru oil did you do.

nice one AJ, looks like its more time in the naughty room, what flavour pizza we eating tonight ?

did 2 coats at !00% TO.. (the second one was whilst wet sanding, then wiped followed in same session with 50% with ghost gold in same session, then 6 coats ranging from 50% thinned to 75% thinned, light steal wool in-between and final sanding after last coat was with 3000 grit wet sand)

think it will be supreme tonight.. am a bit peckish..lol
Q for you guys, what recording software do you use (DAW)?..
also just bought a looper pedal from JB hifi, the digitech RP 155 for $90 on sale.. seems ok.. now to learn how to use it

Looking great mate. I use Cubase and ableton. The loopers are good fun man, you'll have a blast.

very nice AJ

AJ that's a stunning finish. And loving the colour

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Originally Posted by andrew

Looking great mate. I use Cubase and ableton. The loopers are good fun man, you'll have a blast.

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Had a look at those, I don't know enough about this sort of stuff to know what is good and what is bad, that being said, I have very limited funds to get something like this.
JB hifi has a home studio set up for ~$230 atm, the software in that is cakewalk le . Is that any good? (cakewalk that is..). The minister for finance said wait till after Xmas.

Also ty guys for the comments.

AJ - you're nailing those finishes mate!

Cakewalk is sonar. I used to use sonar up until the x series came out, but they changed the ui so unless your running multiple monitors it can get cluttered really quick. Maybe check out audacity. It's a free program for pc, a multi-track daw just like cakewalk or Cubase, but it's not as pretty looking. Do you have an audio interface?

Ableton live is more geared towards electronic music and synths but has a very usable audio recording function, where Cubase or sonar are more your traditional daws. I find live very intuitive as that's the way it was designed, where Cubase is a lot more feature heavy. Sonar again is pretty feature heavy, but the le version is somewhat stripped down, less plugins bundled with the program, and maybe less track counts.

Audacity is pretty simple compared to those daws, and it's free.

Maybe if you can tell us what you plan to record we can point you in the right direction.

Looking really amazing AJ! You've achieved a really killer shine. She's gonna be a stunner with all the hardware installed!

cheers,
Gav.

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Maybe if you can tell us what you plan to record we can point you in the right direction.

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I was just planning to try to records some simple stuff to help me learn to play a tad better, the only interface I have is the R_P 155 pedal, which it says in the book it will connect o most DAW programs via the usb cable.. I downloaded the Sonar X trail.. could not get any sound out of it, but it did recognize the pedal.. :(

Can you post a pic of your computer screen?

Sweeeet finishes you're getting AJ ... so damn deep on that gloss I almost fell in! :D

Gotta agree with Andrew on Audacity ... very easy to use, highly capable and surprisingly sophisticated (especially for a free download!)

I have now tried out Audacity, and had some success.. Here is a rough-ish sample I just did with the scratch "mako" through the RP155 pedal ... I've murdered "the good,bad n ugly" start..



https://www.facebook.com/andrew.john...10?pnref=story

nice one AJ, you are king of the clear coats !

Hey man, clicked the link but there wasn't any audio stuff? Maybe it's set to private?

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Hey man, clicked the link but there wasn't any audio stuff? Maybe it's set to private?

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I had to use windows movie maker to post the clip, noise should happen when you click the movie?? (tis the Mako "Scratch" guitar I made from pine) I have no idea how to do a u-tube one.

Rechecked, it was set to friends, is now public
https://www.facebook.com/andrew.john...10?pnref=story

Yep, works fine now mate. Nothing wrong with that! Welcome to the world of recording, mako sounds unreal!