DrNomis_44's Gold Standard STA-1M Build.

[DrNomis_44]

The whole out of phase surf music dictated what a Strat could do...the along comes a man Named Jimi,,, puts a Fuzz face a phazer and turns the world upside down...2 greatest influences Jimi and SRV

Yep, I'm a big fan of Jimi Hendrix too, I've got a copy of his most recent posthumous album, Valleys Of Neptune, on CD, it was really interesting to hear where he was taking some of his well known tunes on that album, there's a few guitarists that have inspired me to pick up the guitar and play it, Jimi is one, there's also Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Malcom and Angus Young, Eric Johnson, and a few others I could probably mention too, I recently found myself getting back into the Shadows and Hank Marvin, I'm going to see if I can nail that Hank Marvin sound once I get my Gold Strat up and running again so it's playable.

[DrNomis_44]

Update:


I was running out of the White Knight White Undercoat spray paint so I decided to go ahead and spray the body with the Rust-Oleum Grey primer paint, so far I haven't noticed any paint-reaction issues with the primer and the previous coat of White Undercoat, everything looks pretty normal with no bubbling....hmmmmm....interesting.


I'm going to leave the guitar body to dry outside on my balcony, hooked up to the clothesline, for a few hours and see how it goes, I might give it some time to dry overnight too.


Here's what the both sides of the body looks like after being spray-painted with the Rust-Oleum Grey Primer:







Apart from a few paint-runs and one slightly missed spot on the back of the guitar body, I honestly cant see any paint-reactions as indicated by bubbling.

[wazkelly]

Hi Doc, looks like a bit of the Ash grain poking through on the back that tends to indicate not enough sealer before applying paint.

Not wrong about a few runs. May need to hold the can a bit further away and use light passes rather than trying to liberally coat the thing in one pass as in your climate too thick a coat can equal disaster very quickly.

[DrNomis_44]

Hi Doc, looks like a bit of the Ash grain poking through on the back that tends to indicate not enough sealer before applying paint.

Not wrong about a few runs. May need to hold the can a bit further away and use light passes rather than trying to liberally coat the thing in one pass as in your climate too thick a coat can equal disaster very quickly.

Cheers, and you're right about that, I'm going to give the body a good sanding-down in the morning hopefully I can get the body a bit smoother so that the grain isn't showing through like it is, the instructions said to hold the can 20cm from the object I was spraying, which I did, I guess I need a bit more practice at spray-painting with spray cans, if worse comes to worse, I'll buy some 80 grit sand paper from the big green shed, strip off all the paint, put some Maple Timbermate on the body and re-paint it again.

[wazkelly]

There might be other filler solutions you could use rather than sanding back and starting again. Bets to check with the paint dept at the 'shed'.

[DrNomis_44]

There might be other filler solutions you could use rather than sanding back and starting again. Bets to check with the paint dept at the 'shed'.

Cheers mate will do, but I'll have to wait till next fortnight cause I'm very low on money, so I can't buy any more stuff from the big green shed till then, did you check out the pic I posted of the overhang on the 22-fret neck I'm using on the Gold Strat body?, if so, hope that clears things up, I reckon you should be able to put a 22-fret neck on your guitar with minimal issues, providing that the neck fits relatively well in the neck pocket, you should also have minimal issues with the scale length too, hope you manage to find a good 22-fret neck for your guitar at a good price mate.

[andrewdosborne]

Hey Doc I happen to jam with someone on Wednesdays who uses pretty much the same rig as Hank used in the studio (Shadows). I'll take some photo's and list items used

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[DrNomis_44]

Hey Doc I happen to jam with someone on Wednesdays who uses pretty much the same rig as Hank used in the studio (Shadows). I'll take some photo's and list items used

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Cheers mate, would love to check out the pics after you post them, looking forward to it.

[DrNomis_44]

Update:


I've just done a quick check of the Gold Strat body and the Rust-Oleum Grey Primer seems to have dried pretty hard while I left it to dry overnight yesterday, so I'm going to give the body a sanding-down a bit later on so I can smooth out the paint runs, and then I'm going to try spraying another coat of Grey Primer on the areas of the body where the grain is showing, and also areas I missed, then I'll let that dry and see how it turns out, incidentally, the Rust-Oleum Grey Primer I'm using seems to be pretty good stuff, practically no issues with paint reactions, or maybe I got lucky, I dunno, the results I'm getting are proving very encouraging so far.

[FrankenWashie]

Update:


I've just done a quick check of the Gold Strat body and the Rust-Oleum Grey Primer seems to have dried pretty hard while I left it to dry overnight yesterday, so I'm going to give the body a sanding-down a bit later on so I can smooth out the paint runs, and then I'm going to try spraying another coat of Grey Primer on the areas of the body where the grain is showing, and also areas I missed, then I'll let that dry and see how it turns out, incidentally, the Rust-Oleum Grey Primer I'm using seems to be pretty good stuff, practically no issues with paint reactions, or maybe I got lucky, I dunno, the results I'm getting are proving very encouraging so far.

Yeah I've found it pretty good to work with, I used the flat white version to undercoat a puppet theatre thingy I made for my better half. Great coverage even with my slipshod spraying skills. Quick drying too, unless you absolutely drench a spot of course.