terrific job Arzi
terrific job Arzi
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Hi
Thanks guys. Hope to make it tidyer. Stan; not so much terrific as it was terrifying....
When every step is something you haven't done before you're just so happy there is a forum like this one and youtube....
Nice work Arzi. Like where you're going with your binding. Looking good!
Great to see your vision starting to emerge from this kit. Looking great Arzi!
Current:
GTH-1
Completed:
AST-1FB
First Act ME276 (resurrected curb-side find)
ES-5V
Scratchie lapsteel
Custom ST-1 12 String
JBA-4
TL-1TB
Scratch Lapsteel
Meinl DIY Cajon
Cigar Box lap steel
Wishing:
Baritone
Open D/Standard Double 6 twin neck
That's looking great Arzi, well done mate. Love the binding.
Hi
So... I was supposed to fix the binding and I did it today. Here are some pics (alot) of how I did it
First got the acetone and pieces of binding and melted them in a glass jar:
Made a paste and started to work:
Some shots of the paste applied:
The paste dried in about 5 minutes and needed to be applied several times cause it shrinked some while drying. Very easy to do. The melting took about 30-45 minutes and when it was the way I wanted I poured the excess acetone out of the jar.
More pics to come after awhile....
So here are pics after I sanded the binding and also shaped the edges of the body to meet the binding. Looking a lot better now even though some ares close to the horns are still "in need of work" but some of them I just have to leave as they are for there is no binding left to sand off.
the place where I joined the 2cm piece of binding:
Also shaped the headstock today. Classic MM shape. Now I was gonna put a 2mm pearl binding on this also but I´ll make a decision on it in a couple of days. Should be easier and faster now that I have some experience on it and it would be placed the "classic way".
Even though this hasn´t come up totally perfect, I´m pretty happy with it and can live with my "early works"...
Very nice, Arzi. Loving this so far.
'As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.'
So.. Headstock day and binding...
First I thought I´d just route the channel and put the 2mm wide binding in but then after I routed the channel (with my 5 dollar chinese dremel accessory) I found out that the 2mm binding was way too fragile to work with.
Then I thought that why not do it the way I fixed the body binding earlier - melt the binding in acetone and tap it in the channel then sand it to fit when it dried. So I did... first of all I had to put at least 20 layers of the paste one after another around the channel. The paste dried very quickly and then retracted to maybe 1/5 of the initial amount I put there. Reminded me of working with naughty oil.
Then got to sanding it and I´m quite pleased with the results. The paste is a just bit soft still so I´m gonna let it cure over night and then do the final shaping and tidy it up. Here are some photos of the process:
First the routing:
This photo is how it looked when done:
And this is the result before the final sanding part tomorrow:
When polished, the color of course is not the same as in the body binding and scratchplate, but still it´s pearl white - shiny and clean. So far I´m quite happy with it and thought to use it in some of my future builds - maybe could do some inlays with this method or something...
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