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    GAStronomist Simon Barden's Avatar
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    The reason I have been fairly quiet recently is that I have been taking a rest from the guitar building side of things after a most annoying setback. I should have had the ES-1/330 complete by now, but when I went to do a 1200 grit wet sand sand before polishing the body, this happened on the bulge of the top horn on the front:

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    I'd hardly touched it. I'm sorry, but my experiment with Tru-Oil is over and I'll never use it again. It's not like there were only a couple of coats; there must have been 30 on all the surfaces and I'd waited about 10 days since the last coat went on. There's no way that I could patch that up and have it look presentable. So it's sand everything back time and see if the body will re-stain. If not, it's solid colour time. The weather's warmed up, so it will be back to the nitro.

    So today I started on the back:

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    The really annoying thing is that the finish on the back is very hard, and it's taken over 3 hours to get the back stripped back, even using power sanders. A heat gun was of no assistance. Never mind, here it is almost finished:

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    I completed the back (camera battery is currently recharging so no fully sanded pic at the moment) but I've now run out of decent sandpaper (ordered more), so I've stopped for today. The next few days are forecast for sun, so guess what I'll be doing over the weekend! Just hope I can sand the front back without going through the veneer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Simon Barden View Post
    The reason I have been fairly quiet recently is that I have been taking a rest from the guitar building side of things after a most annoying setback. I should have had the ES-1/330 complete by now, but when I went to do a 1200 grit wet sand sand before polishing the body, this happened on the bulge of the top horn on the front:

    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	330 top horn sand through.jpg 
Views:	543 
Size:	465.7 KB 
ID:	26308

    I'd hardly touched it. I'm sorry, but my experiment with Tru-Oil is over and I'll never use it again. It's not like there were only a couple of coats; there must have been 30 on all the surfaces and I'd waited about 10 days since the last coat went on. There's no way that I could patch that up and have it look presentable. So it's sand everything back time and see if the body will re-stain. If not, it's solid colour time. The weather's warmed up, so it will be back to the nitro.

    So today I started on the back:

    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	330 Back start sanding.jpg 
Views:	573 
Size:	465.5 KB 
ID:	26309

    The really annoying thing is that the finish on the back is very hard, and it's taken over 3 hours to get the back stripped back, even using power sanders. A heat gun was of no assistance. Never mind, here it is almost finished:

    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	330 back nearly finished sanding.jpg 
Views:	584 
Size:	521.0 KB 
ID:	26310

    I completed the back (camera battery is currently recharging so no fully sanded pic at the moment) but I've now run out of decent sandpaper (ordered more), so I've stopped for today. The next few days are forecast for sun, so guess what I'll be doing over the weekend! Just hope I can sand the front back without going through the veneer.
    Oh Simon that would have peeved me off no end as well was a lovely shad of red mate, at least you can pull out the sander and go again at least it wasn't on a veneer top really feel for you mate
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