...and time goes by and it rains a lot and is damp, so not a lot happens, than a sand through, then some repairing and more lacquer spraying, and then drying until yesterday and today when suddenly.
WHAM!!!
...The neck gets polished, frets levelled and re-profiled and the tuners fitted. These are Gotoh rear-locking units as the original Northwest Guitars locking tuners had posts that were too tall for the headstock so the low strings had poor break angles. They were fine on my Explorer with its angled headstock, but the string hole heights are way too high for a flat headstock.
BIFF!!!
...The body is taken down for sanding.
OOOOFFFF!!!
...The body is sanded with P400, P600, P800, P1200 and P2000
KAPOW!!!
...The top is polished
KERRUNCH!!!
...The rear and sides are polished
SPLATT!!!
...The trem cavity gets a coat of conductive paint. Mainly to tidy it up, but a bit of extra shielding never did any harm.
There are still a few sinkage spots where I maybe could have sanded down more and removed those, but having sanded through once and put the project back by more than a month with repairs and waiting for good spraying weather, I didn't want to push my luck and am prepared to live with those few small dips. A lot will be hidden by covers and plates. The nitro will sink in anyway over time, so it's never going to stay pristine.
Last edited by Simon Barden; 27-07-2021 at 11:40 PM.
Reply With Quote