Been busy in the last week but have managed to spend some time on the geetar.
Firstly, thanks Simon for your through hole technique with a drill stand, wish that
had occurred to me before I started ! Hey ho, the trough is done now.
Almost finished the gloss coats but found that despite using the finishing oil as per
Crimson's videos it is taking an age to finally go off.
Most likely due to the ambient temperature, the tackiness is slowly going.
Took the opportunity to get the copper tape out and do the pup cavities.
Looks ready for a space launch now !
I have run some tape where the bridge sits and laid a few layers to hopefully
earth the bridge. Now need to solder and run some earth leads to a central point.
Question please - does anyone shield the back of the scratch plate and similarly
the large cavity where the controls go ?
That could be a bugger as the tape has a mind of its own.
Will be doing the neck next and hopefully final assembly/setup.
Another question - fiddling with the scratchplate today for these 'mockup' pics
- if I am not sure what I am going to do next I screw it all together haha -
I realised that it might be a bit tight when soldering everything.
I have some two pin connectors from my Quadcopter/Drone days and wondered if
using a few of these would help in the final assembly and possible disassembly.
The only two problems I could think of are loose connections and added noise.
Does anyone have any views on this ?
Pics below show the finish - not sure if I wanted a brown guitar when I started
the journey but I have grown to like it and the Journey even more so.
Cheers, FB.
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