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Hello from the upper Blue Mountains, NSW. I have an RC-1 kit arriving tomorrow and an RC-4 kit on oder. I am very excited to see the work of others here and these extraordinary examples are filling my mind with ideas for my own builds. Thank you. :-)
Welcome Newtonb to the forum. I do like an RC-1.
Welcome, and good luck with your RC's.
Welcome aboard newtonb - got a bit of a thing for Ricks by any chance?! Looking forward to following your progress!
Welcome to the forum Newton.
Welcome Newton and I'm looking forward to see your build diaries.
Thank you for the kind words of welcome. I am currently pacing the house awaiting the Australia Post contractor delivery van and my first kit. It feels a bit like Christmas. I shall start a build diary just as soon as it arrives. Discovering this forum and the fact that kits actually exist has been a breath of fresh air. I am looking forward to an autumn/winter build of two great individual guitars.
Welcome Newton! It always feels like Xmas before a kit arrives :)
Welcome Newtonb. Do they still have the slippery dip in the Blackheath pool? I remember that from my childhood.
Fretwork,
I am sorry, I do not know of the history of a slippery dip down at the pool. I have only been up here since 2008 and I have never been to the local swimming baths apart from two days ago which I drove to; to check for you, if a slippery dip still existed. (What a nice peaceful hidden area of Blackheath!!). I didn't see a slippery dip. Just the changing blocks and the swimming pools. :-)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue_m...ies/6212458393
Found an old picture on the internet, you can just see the slippery dip in the background (right in the middle of the pool). That was so much fun on the occasions we were up the mountains in summer when I was a kid.
Wow! How cool that would have been to slide down as a kid on those long hot summer days. :-)
welcome mate!
always nice to see fellow Rick lovers!
i got my RC1-M kit last week and am eagerly awaiting when i get some free time to start sanding!
have you ordered any finishes yet or have you got any ideas on what you want your final products to look like?
welcome and enjoy the builds!
Thanks guys. Yes Chungkee I have lots of ideas about how I would like my builds to look like. I have already started a diary over in the build diary section. I really like RIC's variations on red and burgundy. I adore the deep burgundy Basses that are all over the web. So although I failed in my first attempt to colour my RC-1 the way I wanted and went with a rattle can gloss black instead, the failure allowed me to then sand and fill smooth the sharp ridges around the rear of the front of the guitar body (I don't know the terminology to describe to the rear of the saddle and bridge?) and file and shape the f-hole a bit more to a RIC shape. Thus shaped, I am happy to go forward with a black RC-1.
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The RC-4 is being stained (my version of) RIC Burgundyglo slowly using artist oil colours. The way I am doing it (after failing the first time attempting to make things dry more quickly) , is a very slow process where most of what colour I put on 24 hours previously gets wiped off and then another round of staining goes on. So on and so forth. It is like french polishing but done very very slowly with artist oil colours which take forever to dry. I am happy with the colour I have. So for the moment I am sticking with my method. It is working for me. I have time between work shifts to do it this way. :-)