Woltz's TLA-1Q

[Woltz]

Whoa! That’s a ripper! NSFW wood porn dude.

though if it were me, I would be looking to use the foreground version but reverse the direction of the body, as then the dark grain structure would kind of carry through to the taper of the neck. I may however be totally overthinking that.

I'm going to use it on my semi-scratch tele build which is going to be a double f thinline with no pickguard. The grain is too good to cover up. But it'll be a tough decision on which orientation to go.

Thats nice

If only my guitar playing was a good as the grain I'd be stoked haha.

[Woltz]

Update time after a long break over christmas and new year. I decided to rebind the guitar, so I ordered some White Pearl binding and got it glued on.



I then sanded it down level with the body and removed the rest of the blue paint as I'd changed my mind about colour.

Then primed it (for like the 3rd time, this build is testing my patience).



I then sprayed the colour but ended up with some hairs in it so rubbed it back and sprayed again.

Here it is after spraying the colour.





I then removed the tape off the binding. This weekend I'll scrape the bindings to clean up a little bit of paint that got on them and then I'll spray the clear (hopefully for the final time, fingers crossed).

[FrankenWashie]

Yeah, we've all been there with finishes. Black is my curse, an EXA-1 where the dingotone didn't behave and a Black LP that sits unfinished in its box. Mocking me.

On the plus side, red guitars play faster!

[Woltz]

Yeah, we've all been there with finishes. Black is my curse, an EXA-1 where the dingotone didn't behave and a Black LP that sits unfinished in its box. Mocking me.

On the plus side, red guitars play faster!

Yep and I can't let it go because then I feel like I wasted money if it's not perfect haha. There are two things that I've decided I need if I was doing lots of builds. A really clean booth to spray in and a spray gun instead of aerosols.

[Woltz]

Well the clear is sprayed. There are a couple little blemishes but unless I discover something more major when I inspect it after it has dried I'm just going to have to make peace with the fact it's not perfect. Anyway here are a couple of photos.







And a close up of the binding that I put on there after I removed the factory plain white binding.



I'll give it a week to dry and then I'll wet sand and polish to remove the orange peel. Fingers crossed I don't sand through the clear.

[Sonic Mountain]

Looks pretty good! Amazing what a cut and polish will do to reduce the look of little errors. Binding looks cool, nice to see something a little different.

[trv]

This thread has been a real roller coaster ride; all 3 iterations of this guitar have been stunning. That pearl binding looks great. Good luck with the sand & polish!

[djefster]

Hi Woltz, Epic build. I feel your pain as I had one that took me all last year to do.... and stuff up, redo, more stuff ups, etc.

Hey what was the blue dye/stain you used on the original maple? I loved that finish!! I'm about to start on a flame maple Thinline and that was one of my choices of colour.

Cheers
Jeff

[Woltz]

Hi Woltz, Epic build. I feel your pain as I had one that took me all last year to do.... and stuff up, redo, more stuff ups, etc.

Hey what was the blue dye/stain you used on the original maple? I loved that finish!! I'm about to start on a flame maple Thinline and that was one of my choices of colour.

Cheers
Jeff

Hi Jeff,

The first version I did Ebony Timbermate to highlight the grain then sanded back (very carefully on the veneer), then Angelus Blue (040) Leather Dye to stain. Then I sprayed with sanding sealer (Behlen Jey Spray Sanding Sealer) and sanded to get it level before I sprayed the nitro clear (Behlen Jet Spray Clear Lacquer). The spot where I made the error was I should've done more coats/thicker coats of the Sanding Sealer and then block sanded more to be sure it was flat before I sprayed the clear coat.

Are you in Australia? I got the leather dye off ebay (although also available from Adelaide Leather & Saddery Supplies) and the nitro aerosols from guitarAust.

[djefster]

Thanks Woltz. Yes, I'm in Oz.

I'll check out the dye. The one I'm trying just isn't doing it for me!!