DrNomis_44's Gold Standard STA-1M Build.

[wazkelly]

Very, very nice Doc.

[Andy40]

Dayam Doc, this is going to be worth the wait!

[DrNomis_44]

Dayam Doc, this is going to be worth the wait!

I'll say.....the rainy weather seems to have eased off a bit so depending on how the weather is tomorrow, I might go ahead and spray a new coat of paint on the body.

[DrNomis_44]

The weather seems to have dried up a bit today, so I might just give the body another 24 hours of drying time and see if the weather is still dry tomorrow, if so, then I'll go ahead with the application of a new coat of Gold paint on the body.

[vh2580]

That gold has come up a treat Doc.

[DrNomis_44]

That gold has come up a treat Doc.

Cheers, I'm not actually sure what I did this time round, but whatever I did it seems to have been the right thing to do, maybe I simply gave the paint the time it needed to dry out properly....my theory anyway, I have tried to be a lot more patient with it though.

[andrewdosborne]

Love your work Doc this is looking great. As I've discovered a good spray paint job comes from prep, time, patience, more time, patience and so on ad infinitum. And, I've never paid so much attention to humidity levels lol

[DrNomis_44]

Update:

Okay, I've just gone and sprayed the second-last coat of Gold paint on the body of the guitar, I can't see any paint-runs or any other obvious issues so all I need to do now is just leave it alone and let it dry, now that I'm this close to the finishing-line I really don't want to stuff things up and have to start all over again, in the meantime, I can order the new pickups and bridge, etc so that I have everything I need when it comes to the final assembly of the guitar, might also do something about getting the headstock decal sorted too while I'm at it.

There's not really much point in me taking pics of the guitar body as it is cause it practically looks the same as per the previous two pics, but, I may post a couple later on anyway, will definitely post pics of the guitar after it's final assembly, setup, and tune-up though.


Update:

I changed my mind and decided to take a couple of pics of the body after letting the paint dry for some time, so here we go:


The front:




And the back:




I'm thinking that it only needs one more coat of Gold paint and then it's ready for clear coating, I'm not going to worry about sanding it smooth because the paint has a texture on it that I quite like, it almost looks like the body was made by pouring molten gold into a sand mould.

At least there aren't any pesky paint runs this time round.

[DrNomis_44]

I'm thinking of going ahead with spraying the final coat of Gold paint on the Gold Strat body today, after it has had enough time to dry I will be starting the spraying of clear coats.


I'm going to be taking a trip to my local Big Green Shed today to buy some 8mm Oak Doweling to plug up an 8mm hole in the back of the neck heel of the maple neck I'm going to be using for this build project, I had to drill out the hole oversized because the 6mm plug I had glued in it before came out, it's a bit of a long story so I won't go into it here though.

I'm also going to go ahead and order the new pickups, and a few other things from Realtone Music today, I'm getting very close to the finishing line with this build project.


Update:

Finally got the new pickups and some bits of hardware ordered from Realtone Music, they didn't have any Gold scratchplate screws in stock so I've ordered 30 of them from Stewmac, hopefully they'll arrive within a fortnight's time.

[DrNomis_44]

Update:


Just got back from visiting the Big Green Shed about an hour ago, they happened to have some 8mm Oak Dowelling in stock so I bought a 1.2M length of it along with a set of needle files, some new Stanley-Knife blades, a Craft Exacto Knife, and a new 1M Steel Ruler, I also popped into Jaycar Electronics across the road to buy myself a new soldering stand with a Led illuminated magnifier.

The new 1M steel ruler is going to come in handy for checking the alignment of the maple Strat neck with the body, and also for roughing-in the individual string-intonation, I've got two other steel rulers, one is 300mm long and the other one is 600mm long.


Update 2:

Just finished spraying the final coat of Gold paint on the Gold Strat body, all I need to do now is wait till it has dried and then it'll be ready for clear-coating.