Matt's WL-1 build

[FrankenWashie]

That is looking like a weapon already, great job. That black and red combo is going to look sick with a clear coat over the top.

[Andy40]

Holey smoke, the black and red sets that kit off!!

[Thigg88]

Very nice. Coming along well mate

[Simon Barden]

You may find that scraping with a small sharp blade first is a more precise way of getting the excess black paint off. Then some very light overall sanding before the clear coats.

[Kick]

Really devilish Go with the LED's!!

[mjg]

Thanks all.

I'll have to buy a razor blade Simon, have used an electric shaver for years. I do have a lot of woodworking chisels but I suspect they are a bit too unwieldy for the job at hand. I'd probably remove half the guitar before I stopped.

Anyone have a favourite place for buying custom guitar knobs? I've found some on Qparts that look perfect for the build, but they're going to be $16 US for the 2 knobs, and $35 US shipping. Can't justify spending more on the knobs than I did for the pickups!

e.g. these ones I like in the black (Which aren't in stock at the moment anyway...) : https://www.qparts.com/index.php/kno...dome-knob.html

[Andy40]

Electric razors are the best. Changed in 1996 to Braun and never looked back. Now back to the guitar. Buy yourself a set of replacement Stanley knife blades. They should do the trick and you can also use them for fret rockers!

[WeirdBits]

Perhaps try Allparts, the shipping costs may be slightly better.


Warning: parts shopping may be hazardous to your wallet.

[phrozin]

well thats coming along quite nice there fella shame about the masking tape but easy fix if you want a cheat just polish it as normal and use a black marker pen on the black, coming up real nice for your 1st efffort

[mjg]

A few weeks on, and things are progressing. There have been a few minor stuff ups, but overall it's getting there.

I carefully sanded and also used a razor to scrape off some of the black overspray and leakage. That went OK for the most part, but I managed to chip or sand off a few bits of red and expose the primer. Just tiny little chips. Only wafer thin, as the saying goes.

Decided to try a red pen to disguise that. I found a red felt tip pen that was pretty much a perfect match for the red paint, and drew a bit on - looked good.

I also had some black spray left over, so I sprayed that onto some plastic, then dipped a small paint brush in - was able to use that to carefully hand paint a few bits on the curves where the tape wasn't quite right. That turned out well.

Sanded the back and front colour down a bit with 1200 wet paper. Just to level everything off a bit before the clear coats.

Sanded:


Red pen on the edge of the red here - pretty good match. But read on to see why this was a crap idea.