Pablos RC-4

[jarrod]

Geez pab that colour is gonna look sweet man. Been thinking about a ricky myself.

[pablopepper]

Cheers guys. Wokka, only pulled a few tiny bits you wouldn't be able to see and that white mark is just a smudge of timbermate, gone now.

Since there's been a bit of interest in the templates etc. Here's a just before pic.

Because this rout will be completely exposed, if I buggered it up it would have meant going with a solid colour or improvising some sort of cover neither of which I want to do. Still have to carve out the corners a little to get the pickup to fit. Fingers crossed.

[wokkaboy]

nice work Pablo, love the idea of a clear router baseplate so you can see what you are cutting. Next time make the template 3 or 4 times bigger so you can clamp it !

[pablopepper]

Alrighty, exciting progress!

First up, I carved out the corners ever so slightly so now the pickup fits very snug. Happy times.

Not totally perfect, but good enough.

Shielded the cavity with conductive paint.

After a final sand, ready for colour.

First go around with the ink. I was going to thin it out with some water, but that never got me a colour I was happy with. So, straight ink.

This was the last of the sunlight for the day, so it's the best pic. Promising.

It was a still a tad too light, so after a couple of hours, I hit it with another round but only on the outside and then feathered it into the middle for a subtle burst.


Crappy pics under a flouro light so the colour is not too accurate, but it's darker and I'm quite pleased with the result. I'll see if I can get a better pic in daylight this afternoon.

A nasty surprise confronted me when I pulled up the tape though.

Ouch. I'm using 3m painters tape, but it might be getting a bit old. Must be more careful from now on. But, this pic has the best representation of the actual colour.

Tonight I will scrape the binding and possibly put one coat of tru oil on to seal it before masking again and fixing the damage.

[bargeloobs]

Jeez that cavity is clean as a whistle pabs, beautiful. That blues damn stunning too, what's the plans for the back?

[pablopepper]

Thanks mate. Back will be the same as the front.

[wokkaboy]

looks awesome Pablo, glad the ink worked out, so your going to do another colour coat to deepen the blue ?

[gavinturner]

Really awesome colour Pabs. Got me very interested in using ink now! Thus is going to be a killer bass!

Cheers,
Gav.

[jarrod]

That is a fricken outrageous colour Pab, gonna look stunning.

[west0288]

That is sweet as mate! Stunning colour.

I'm glad the ink suggestion worked out for you. Now I've finally helped you out, to start making up for all your helpful suggestions for me!