Thanks Simon.
I think I will leave the locking tuners for now then and see how it goes.
More progress yesterday.
I have veneered the headstock. Not sure what the wood is but it has some nice flaming going on.
Spent ages thinking about the shape for the headstock - not really sure how (or why) I ended up with this one though!
Last job of the evening was setting the neck. It all went smoothly in the end after a couple of dry runs to make sure I knew where the clamps were going etc.
I added a couple of strips of veneer to the front of the tongue just to create as much glue contact area as possible.
Dry assembled the pu's and bridge etc for the photos and it all fits well.
No more little gap at the corner of the fretboard/pu cavity.
Now to go and write another thread elsewhere in the forum and rant about shoddy TOM bridge assemblies.
I had decided way before I even ordered the guitar kit that it had to be stained Purple. To the extent that I had ordered the stains before the kit arrived.
I had also decided that I would be attempting another piece of artwork on the back so this is where I am at.
The whole guitar has been stained with Stunning Stains water based purple and cherry red with amber for part of the neck.
Next was the clear coat. I have spray equipment and positive pressure air masks so I use urethane 2k by Omi-Cron.
Do not try that stuff without the right masks and filters.
The pictures below show 3 coats on the front and about 10 coats on the back. I need a very flat surface on the back before I can spray the artwork and particularly so because the fur is scratched on and any dimples in the clear coat would cause a problem there.
I practiced the picture twice on art card before attempting this for real so we will see how it goes.
For those interested, the steps are as follows
1. Stain back.
2. Clear coat to lock colour in.
3. Airbrush the basic shape of the dog (or wolf). Use the colours that will be revealed in the fur.
4. Clear coat the back again. Then the scratching will not go through the fur colour . Use plenty of coats.
5. Wet sand the clear coat to as flat as possible.
6. Airbrush on the moon - covering the edge of the dog so that you can scratch through to get the fur edge.
7. Airbrush the space and add stars with an old tooth brush or similar by flicking the bristles with white paint.
8. Get scratching and adding black with the airbrush to create folds.
There is always the possibility that this artwork will not come out the way i want it to in which case I can rub it down the the red stain and start again.
The last picture below shows where I am at with the first layer of fur - there will be about 4 layers in total.
This scratching session was about 2 hours.
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