cazaron LP-1M Build Diary

[cazaron]

Awesome, thanks for the tips. I really can't wait for the last few things I'm waiting on to show up and get this thing playing.

I know you can't rush quality, but eagerness perhaps is getting the best of me

[cazaron]

Strung up the thing; pickup rings comfortably under the strings. Not a worry anymore.

Still waiting on nut files and the pickups, but I've officially played the thing. It needs some TLC over the next few weeks to make it feel good. I'm very happy though.

[cazaron]

Spent the morning with my father drilling the holes and I have to say... I'm super impressed with how this has turned out.

http://imgur.com/a/JdbkZ

There's four bits to go though;
- waiting on the postal service
- wiring
- filing the nut
- setting it up

Close. Exciting. Looks great. Sounds great. In my mind.

[Kick]

Great job Cazaron!

[Dedman]

looking super nice!

[D.K]

looking real nice, that green really stands out.

[cazaron]

Thanks everybody <3
It's not super consistent, the finish is patchy in places, but I'm really, really pleased with it. I would have never expected that I could get something looking like this. Way better than I had expected.

[Simon Barden]

Yes, looking very good.

The first coats of nitro are soaking into the wood, giving the rough finish. You just have to keep adding more coats until the finish is thick enough to sand back smooth and then polish it up for a really glossy look.

[JohnH]

Looks great! You should be really pleased

[cazaron]

Thanks all.

@Simon, it feels pretty smooth and looks shiny enough to me; I'm not super worried about getting that mirror finish. Pretty content with how it looks right now. Just going to focus on setting the guitar up in the next couple of weeks and leave the finish as is. At the end of the day, I don't see myself wishing I'd put more gloss into the finish, so probably not going to worry about it. I'll definitely make sure to heed that advice if I go again. A solid white or silver explorer seems pretty cool. But that's another day!

Learned a neat trick to get the tailpiece bushels out, put a screw in the hole, screw in the tailpiece and the bushel rises out of the body, no damage to the finish. That was really cool. Did that to put the ground wire in. I'm learning so much. Just wish the pickups were here... don't even have an ETA on them yet. Suppliers, am I right? Only so much my local guitar shop can do for me