Vintage-y ES-3

[neverwas]

Thanks Brendan. Made a bit of progress.
The inlay is epoxied in and sanded, tried building up the purfling ledge with the binding paste method but found it less messy to use epoxy and then trim it back to make the ledge square(ish).
Purfling and binding glued on and roughly scraped (with a cabinet scraper) to being a bit proud of the timber. It looked not too bad when I took the tape off, but now can see a few gaps and some of the purfling joins don't quite match up. The gaps should be able to fill with the dissolved binding paste. Also the new binding needs to be made the same colour as the neck binding, needs to be not only a bit cream but also green as well. Not sure how to do that yet. Pics



I did order some ivory coloured binding but it ended up being more yellow than the timber so just used the white instead. Still need to clean up excess glue and try to fill the gaps then sand to level with the timber. Anyway, thats where it's at.

Grant

[wokkaboy]

Grant that looks amazing well done, you do all these new techniques first time and do a very good job. You are really a natural at all these difficult tasks, I'm impressed.
You know now I have had an ES-3 kit sitting for ages I am going to have to try something like this !

[stan]

actually a mighty fine headstock mate, nicely done

[neverwas]

Thanks Wokks and Stan. There may be an element of beginners luck involved although I used about four times the amount of binding you would expect (lots of mistakes pre-shaping pieces).
If I can get a half decent result then you should easily be able to do a classy build Wokks

[Fretworn]

Dang Grant. That headstock is looking great.

[andrewdosborne]

Fantastic headstock and inlay, great job!

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[Tadeo]

I love this guitar. Maybe one day.

[gavinturner]

Wow Grant, that headstock is stunning dude. That's some mad skills you are showing off there. Amazing job! Can't wait to see the finished product.

cheers,
Gav.

[neverwas]

Thanks Fretty, Andrew, Gav And Tadeo - you're doing a great job on your first build, keep at it and you'll do your own no probs.
Couldn't leave the binding alone, had to fiddle with it, ended up re-doing it all to get the fix the joins I wasn't happy with. Bonus was this time used the right cream coloured binding (should have done that the first time) so it matches the fretboard binding. Some bits are better, some aren't, but not doing it a third time.
Then came the stains and went with bursts to match the body and sealed it.

Used a cotton bud to get the colour into the contours along the top edge, might need to use a brush to get the clear in there as well.
Tried to tape up my binding but the tape didn't want to stay put so have a bit of scraping to do.

Now to check for bits I've missed, touch up if needed and clear it.

Grant

[Fuzzbeard]

Wow that neck is amazing!