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What's cooking?? :o
gee that's keen Mike, hope the body/neck was well balanced and the neck didn't fall out of the pocket. You even got the gas turned on. Look forward to seeing some pics of the kit you scored !
Lesson learnt. String up the e strings BEFORE you glue the neck, not AFTER. Luckily she prised apart with a bit of steam and a paint scraper.
ah is that what you were doing Mike, the photo makes more sense now. Make sure you line up the string offsets take 2 !
Big Bawls my man. great save:cool:
Or maybe just plain stoopid 😝
don't worry Mike the main thing is you got the neck off without any damage. I made heaps of stupid mistakes when this forum was tiny and you had to work things out yourself - the hard way haha
Glued her back together, this time with the e strings attached. This is as even as I could get it. Strings still look a little too far from the edge for mine, but they are even compared too each other. There's quite a big neck pocket gap on the bass side. I'll try and fill it in with timbermate I guess. 🤔
Mike that looks fine. The main thing is there is plenty of fret for the E strings. The small gap in the bass side of the pocket see if you can find some thin veneer you can shim the gap. Otherwise fill it with glue or timbermate. Does this kit have a wraparound bridge ?
Yep wrap around compensated bridge, I may look for an upgraded one though.
I think we've all done similar stoopids. Its great experience though, as you learn more from a stoopid than you do if you do it perfectly every time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Mike
As long as you can fix it and learn from it, its not stoopid. It's when you do the same wrong thing again and again that it becomes stooopid.
Looks fine to me as well. If you are going to replace the kit bridge, then look for a bridge with un-notched saddles. You can then notch the saddles yourself to meet your string spacing requirements.
It's probably the gaps down the side of the neck pocket that allowed your simple steaming setup to work. Had the neck been a really tight fit, the steam probably wouldn't have penetrated as far, which means drilling holes and using steam injector needles. Although it's mainly the heat that weakens the glue rather than the hot water vapour, so it may still have worked.
Cheers guys. Yeah the gaps on the neck pocket let me get the paint scraper in there easy too. Lucky save
Mahogany timbermate applied ready for sanding. First time using this stuff, goes on easy 👍
Nitro sanding sealer applied 2 coats
Looking good, Big Mike.
Put on a few coats of Fender fiesta red nitro. Going to do a black dye on the back and neck.
looking good Big Mike
you better reward yourself with a big bucket of KFC - haha
thank you very much !
Very noice!Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Mike
Mmmm... I wish I could but Big Mike trying to be little mike 😝Quote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
Wood dye has been applied. Black Japan. Then some wipe on poly over the top.
Looking very nice
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Sorry, not a fan of Fiesta Red but really like what you have done on the sides & back.
Yeah, I prefer candy apple red which I should have bought instead.
After I painted her I could see the grain was not quite filled enough. So I applied some ebony timbermate over the top of the red to try and do a kind of dog hair effect. We shall see how it looks! 👍
You can always go and buy some candy apple rattle cans at Super Cheap and rely on the fiesta as an undercoat?
Not sure if I'm digging the two tone colour on the junior. Traditionally of course all the one colour. Looks a bit weird without binding to separate the two colours. Might paint the top black.
Hey Mike maybe wait and see if the colours grow on you. Sometimes I think something doesn't look right and I give it a bit of time to think over. I like the red and black contrast.
Ended up trying a burst around the edges. A little large but I'm liking it better.
Well she's finally done. Upgraded the nut, bridge and electronics, as well as a handwound pickup from Leddin Vintage Guitars. Had to widen the pickup route to fit the beast of a pickup, sounds amazing! Set up needs a bit of tweaking but all in good time. She really rocks!