After a couple more "sand it off, start again" moments, we finally got some clear coat onto the body, and let it cure for a week or two. This paint job seems to be that if you make a mistake, you have to redo the whole thing.

Today I got Swanny Jr onto polishing duties, supervised by Jack...



I also made sure the neck was straight, then got junior to mark all the frets with a Sharpie pen, then run some sandpaper over the top of them, using a 12" radius sanding block. Then I got him to file the top of the frets with a fret file that arrived yesterday.

While he was busy polishing the body, I sanded the fretboard, and rubbed some spirit based stain into it - a dark fretboard is what he wanted, so we went black.



We might make a start on the wiring tonight, if all goes well (and he doesn't choof off to see his girlfriend!)