Well, painting the pickups was a pain in the rear.
They're not perfect, but they're painted. It took a couple of attempts to get them right. I think I like 'em more than the white.
I did manage to get a wind up with a line buried in the clear coat across the pick guard - just showing how slow it is getting that stuff to harden. I wound up having to sand that area back, respray, resand and polish to get it back. There's still a few spots that are just too deep, but it's not so noticable. I'm not feeling terribly perfectionist, so I'm happy to leave it like that at the moment.
The rest of the body has moved inside under a heater vent. I gave it over a week to dry and still wound up seeing the pattern of the cotton sheet pushing into it. I might just leave it there for a few weeks then come back to it.
The neck is mostly finished, complete with tuners installed. Also not perfect, after reworking the clear coat a couple of times managed to get it looking half way decent, then was able to polish it up reasonably well to a half decent gloss.
The back of the neck was sanded down and wiped off given I'd used gloss clear coat but wanted to avoid the gloss in the end. Not polishing gave it a reasonable feel without the poly gloss stickiness. A bit of wax over it and now it feels reasonably playable.
The fretboard cleaned up pretty well. The edges were sharp from the poly build up, but I took them out carefully with a blade, then gave the whole board a light rub with 0000. A good coat of lemon oil later and it looks good.
I think there's a slight bow to the neck. I didn't notice it until I started checking the fret level and realized there was a bit going on.
Not sure if I should attempt to correct it first, or wait to see what happens when its strung. I don't see any point in touching the frets unless the neck is straight.
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