First Build - JBA-4

[Mathew]

Very light sand on the neck to 600 grit, followed by a final coat of satin poly - so happy with the way the neck is coming up now. Looks good, feels awesome. I may give it a light polish with the rest of the guitar to finish, but I'm really happy with it now.



I don't have so much as a work bench let alone a scrap of wood to practice on. And now you mention it Rabbit, doing the 'trial' on the instrument itself seems stupid! But so far, things are coming together nicely.

Final gloss poly coat on the headstock face tonight, then figure out how to level sand and polish everything!

[Rabbit]

And now you mention it Rabbit, doing the 'trial' on the instrument itself seems stupid! But so far, things are coming together nicely.

Well like Simon said:

"And you can almost always go and strip a finish off a guitar/bass and start again if you want to. I have. It's hard work, but getting a much better finish the 2nd (or 3rd) time around is very rewarding. "

I'm just one of those people who spends 2 months faffing around for something that takes 2 minutes to actually do . Just go easy if you are going to polish the satin finish. A lot of satins go gloss with wear. Where I work they use a 2k poly clear as a satin. All it takes is a light rub with a grey scuff pad and it starts to take on a shine