Oh, man, that does truly give it a hand made look ;-)
Oh, man, that does truly give it a hand made look ;-)
Thanks Mikie91au, Frankie and fender3x. A simple addition which is a little different!
PitBull Builds: FVB-4, LP-1SS, FBM-1, AG-2, TB-4, SSCM-1, TLA-1,TL-1TB, STA-1HT, DSCM-1 Truckster, ST-1, STA-1, MBM-1, MBM custom, GHR-1 (Resonator), FH-5V (Acoustic), DMS-1 (Mustang).
Scratch Builds: Pine Explorer, Axe Bass, Mr Scary, Scratchy Tele's.
The little voices in my head keep telling me "build more guitars"
Finally, I got around to:
Adding some 3M-471 tape to the binding.
Adding a coat of Ubeaut sanding sealer to the neck and body.
Lightly sanded everything with 600 g wet and dry.
Adding a coat of Feast Watson Teak Brown stain diluted to 50%.
I'm hoping that the sanding sealer may have stopped some of the stain leaching under the tape. Fingers crossed.
PitBull Builds: FVB-4, LP-1SS, FBM-1, AG-2, TB-4, SSCM-1, TLA-1,TL-1TB, STA-1HT, DSCM-1 Truckster, ST-1, STA-1, MBM-1, MBM custom, GHR-1 (Resonator), FH-5V (Acoustic), DMS-1 (Mustang).
Scratch Builds: Pine Explorer, Axe Bass, Mr Scary, Scratchy Tele's.
The little voices in my head keep telling me "build more guitars"
Today, I have given the body and neck 2 coats of Tru-oil.
After it was touch dry, I removed the 3M vinyl tape. I am very impressed with the results - hardly any stain crept under the tape.
PitBull Builds: FVB-4, LP-1SS, FBM-1, AG-2, TB-4, SSCM-1, TLA-1,TL-1TB, STA-1HT, DSCM-1 Truckster, ST-1, STA-1, MBM-1, MBM custom, GHR-1 (Resonator), FH-5V (Acoustic), DMS-1 (Mustang).
Scratch Builds: Pine Explorer, Axe Bass, Mr Scary, Scratchy Tele's.
The little voices in my head keep telling me "build more guitars"
Today I scraped the binding.
Not much was needed with the side binding - mainly getting the Tru-oil off - using the razorblade mounted on dowel.
The f-holes needed a lot of work (I should have used tape on them also). But they cleaned up well using box cutter blades which had been CA glued onto pop sticks. The 3 pop sticks had the blades glued at (very slightly) different scraping lengths. They still need a bit of tidying up.
PitBull Builds: FVB-4, LP-1SS, FBM-1, AG-2, TB-4, SSCM-1, TLA-1,TL-1TB, STA-1HT, DSCM-1 Truckster, ST-1, STA-1, MBM-1, MBM custom, GHR-1 (Resonator), FH-5V (Acoustic), DMS-1 (Mustang).
Scratch Builds: Pine Explorer, Axe Bass, Mr Scary, Scratchy Tele's.
The little voices in my head keep telling me "build more guitars"
I am impressed by your scraping method. I confess that I have been cheating on my archtop builds. I did solid colors on the tops, and painted over the vertical surface of the binding. I only scraped of the horizontal part of the F-hole, and even then only where the 3M tape did not catch everything.
I am glad I waited to see yours before attempting a translucent finish. I haven't seen the popcicle-stick-scraper approach used before. What a great idea! I have seen the split-dowel-razor-blade-scraper, but even the DIY versions on YouTube don't looks as well made as yours. I wonder if there'd be a market for such things?
It was a big relief that the pop-stick-scrapers idea worked. Big plus is that they easy to make and low cost. They were also easy and comfortable to use! And now I have no need to fear this part of the build!
PitBull Builds: FVB-4, LP-1SS, FBM-1, AG-2, TB-4, SSCM-1, TLA-1,TL-1TB, STA-1HT, DSCM-1 Truckster, ST-1, STA-1, MBM-1, MBM custom, GHR-1 (Resonator), FH-5V (Acoustic), DMS-1 (Mustang).
Scratch Builds: Pine Explorer, Axe Bass, Mr Scary, Scratchy Tele's.
The little voices in my head keep telling me "build more guitars"
The wipe-on-poly has had a few weeks to gas-off.
So today, I have taped up the binding using 3M tape. I also created an f-hole shape on the Cricut cutter, roughly trimmed by hand and then taped up the f-holes.
I have then sprayed a coat of clear water-based poly over the whole body and neck (which will hopefully fill any sections under the tapes), then sprayed a black burst around the front of the body.
PitBull Builds: FVB-4, LP-1SS, FBM-1, AG-2, TB-4, SSCM-1, TLA-1,TL-1TB, STA-1HT, DSCM-1 Truckster, ST-1, STA-1, MBM-1, MBM custom, GHR-1 (Resonator), FH-5V (Acoustic), DMS-1 (Mustang).
Scratch Builds: Pine Explorer, Axe Bass, Mr Scary, Scratchy Tele's.
The little voices in my head keep telling me "build more guitars"
Also tried some darker shading (not sure what this is called!) on the top, bottom and waist section on the sides of the body.
A tiny bit of black got under the vinyl tape during spraying - but I now love vinyl tape for masking.
PitBull Builds: FVB-4, LP-1SS, FBM-1, AG-2, TB-4, SSCM-1, TLA-1,TL-1TB, STA-1HT, DSCM-1 Truckster, ST-1, STA-1, MBM-1, MBM custom, GHR-1 (Resonator), FH-5V (Acoustic), DMS-1 (Mustang).
Scratch Builds: Pine Explorer, Axe Bass, Mr Scary, Scratchy Tele's.
The little voices in my head keep telling me "build more guitars"
The body and headstock have now been given 5 sprayed coats of water-based gloss poly and the back of the neck 5 coats of satin poly.
One lesson I did learn today - after getting dust falling onto the wet finish - is that the cavity needs to free of dust and binding shavings, otherwise the air pressure from the spray gun going into one f-hole will blow rubbish out the other f-hole!Live and learn.
PitBull Builds: FVB-4, LP-1SS, FBM-1, AG-2, TB-4, SSCM-1, TLA-1,TL-1TB, STA-1HT, DSCM-1 Truckster, ST-1, STA-1, MBM-1, MBM custom, GHR-1 (Resonator), FH-5V (Acoustic), DMS-1 (Mustang).
Scratch Builds: Pine Explorer, Axe Bass, Mr Scary, Scratchy Tele's.
The little voices in my head keep telling me "build more guitars"
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