Well it is certainly busy around here with builds at the moment !
Lord knows when I will find time to read through them, perhaps when I have finished the Peelycaster.
Another week has gone by, have been doing more lacquer, must say I am impressed with the gloss
lacquer from a can after a couple of coats and rubdown between them.
The biggest pain is dust now...grrrr !
Have been wiring the pups and scratchplate. Put two pin connectors here and there to ease assembly
and disassembly. Checking everything has earth paths.
Rigged it all up temporarily and plugged in tapping the pups with a screwdriver.
All worked, not much noise but the pups were round the wrong way.
'Bugger' were my first thoughts then remembered the connectors - all sorted in seconds.
My biggest problem was the headstock transfer.
I made one up (well, loads actually) which I printed onto transparent inkjet decal paper.
The yellow/gold in the lettering just vanished.
Second attempt on white decal paper was a lot better.
I cut around the decal leaving a white border - not the look I wanted.
Then cut all round the black border of the decal, not very accurate, needed something better than a craft
knife to get clean curved edges.
In desperation I put the supplied Pitbull decal decal on - perfect !
Undeterred I put my decals on the rear of the headstock just to make me feel better.
The film from the inkjet decal paper seems thicker than the supplied Pitbull one.
That was printed on a laser printer (says so on the back) so is waterproof and did not have
lacquer on it which may be why I found it difficult to cut around the inkjet transfers.
Who knows, it's done now.....
Next jobs are to attach the neck and finalise the bridge position.
Then fit the scratchplate and setup the nut/neck etc.
Bought a set of Hosco electric geetar nut files which are the most expensive purchase so far.
£71 delivered from gluedtomusic.com in the UK.
I suppose I could get most of the cash back by selling them on ebay if I don't
think I will use them again.
I had thought of making a bass next which they won't be used on.
You would need pencils with sandpaper around them for that haha.
Going to lemon oil the fingerboard.
Pics of progress so far below.
Thanks for looking and a big THANK YOU to those who have helped me get this far.
Cheers, FB.
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