What a day, been what seems like hundreds of years since I last soldered so thought I would give it a go today, practiced on some other wire I have, jeez man, ended up melting the insulation, big blobs of the stuff or nothing at all. Took 5 and sat and watched the PB you tube vid, eventually got it near enough to have a proper go.
Yesterday I had mixed some filler in with a base coat as per Wudtones instructions, today went to give it a rub off with 400 sandpaper, then for some stupid reason I thought I would give it a go over with 0000 wire wool, stupid old git next wiped that over with a tack cloth round the sides only luckily enough, disaster!! Spent an hour trying to gently scrape the gunge from the sides till I hit on the idea of using the Evo stick adhesive remover I bought, yippee, worked pretty well thankfully. Got some slight damage in colouring now but nothing i can't live with, gives it a worn look...... so another base coat on tonight, last one i think before the clear coats go on. I'm only glad I haven't as yet done the front of the guitar or i would have been in a right mess. Felt like ringing the daughter up to come and give me a kick in the nuts wake my brain up, anyway lesson learnt, it won't happen again. On a plus side, the neck I am well pleased with, that too will be on a clear coat from tomorrow.
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