DrNomis_44's Gold Standard STA-1M Build.

[wazkelly]

Sad to see such grainy goodness being hidden under a solid colour.

[DrNomis_44]

@ Wazkelly Yeah I know, but I really want to paint it a solid Gold colour, if the grain had been more like a bookmatched flamed-maple then yeah I'd go for a translucent finish, I don't personally think the grain pattern is special enough to justify it but then again other people might have a different opinion, and that's cool.



@ Wokka Yep, I'll consider that a lesson learnt mate.

[DrNomis_44]

Update:


I did some more sanding of the body last night and managed to remove some more traces of the white undercoat paint from around the neck pocket area, the body is looking pretty bare now, can't wait till next Tuesday when I can buy that Orbital Sander and really get stuck into it, I'm aiming to have the Gold Strat up and running in a playable condition by November this year, cause my mate and I are going to be doing a Surf-medley at a club gig and I really want to use the Gold Strat cause it's the most appropriate for playing Surf-Rock Instrumentals, yes I know you can also use Mosrites too, might consider building a Ventures-style Mosrite next year, cause I've never played a Mosrite before, would love to cause they look cool, but I reckon they'd be a bit out of my budget, so, if I could build one from a kit that would be cool, yep, I am a GAS sufferer....lol.

[DrNomis_44]

Update:


I have been doing some re-assessing of my financial situation, and due to a debit with my PayPal account which I will have to pay-off this coming fortnight, I'm not going to have money to budget for a new Orbital Sander, so, I'll have to continue sanding using the old-fashioned manual-method, i.e. by hand, not to worry, I'll buy an Orbital Sander later on this year when my finances permit.

Anyway, there are still some faint traces of the white undercoat paint left on the body of the guitar which I can't seem to remove by sanding, so later on this afternoon, I'm going to go ahead and apply some Maple Timbermate to the body of the Gold Strat, I'm then going to leave it to dry overnight and I'll sand it back smooth tomorrow.

Will keep you all up to date on the progress, with pics too, so stay tuned.

[wokkaboy]

good stuff Doc looks like you got to use your guns for a bit longer to sand

look forward to seeing it sanded after Timbermate, should be flat after that !

[DrNomis_44]

good stuff Doc looks like you got to use your guns for a bit longer to sand

look forward to seeing it sanded after Timbermate, should be flat after that !

Yep, I'll look on the bright side of it, at least my guns are going to be getting the exercise they need and deserve...haha..will keep you up to date on it mate.


One other project I'll work on today is to strip down my Octavia to it's bare case and give it a new White paint-job cause I'm adding it to my Pedalboard along with some of my other vintage-style pedals I've made.

The Axis Fuzz will be getting a new Orange paint job too but I'll have to wait till Tuesday to buy some Orange paint from Bunnings, will also go to my local Officeworks shop to see if they have some suitable Rub-on Letraset sheets so I can re-do the labelling on both the Axis Fuzz and the Octavia, they should look cool once they're finished.

[stan]

it's possible the guitar is flat and the paint is sitting in small divots in the body... sand on mate

[DrNomis_44]

Update:


Have just finished giving the Gold Strat body a good liberal coating of Maple Timbermate all over it except for the body routes which don't need coating, I'll post a couple of pics so you can see what it looks like, I think I managed to coat all the problem areas with a good thick coating so hopefully I'll be able to get the body nice and smooth......stay tuned.


Okay, here we go, here's the front view of the body:




And here's the back view:





Now to leave it to dry overnight, and then hopefully Sanding, Sanding, Sanding, and more Sanding in the morning.

[Andy40]

By the looks of that Doc...you'll have a lot to talk about with your guitar whilst sanding.......

[DrNomis_44]

By the looks of that Doc...you'll have a lot to talk about with your guitar whilst sanding.......

Actually, it's all sanded back to bare wood now, I did that a couple of days ago and my arm-muscles were a bit sore afterwards, so I gave myself a break from it, might see if I can spray it with the primer later on this afternoon.


As far as I can tell the Timbermate did the trick, the body seems a bit smoother all over now so hopefully the grain won't be showing through.


The area where I did the sanding looks like it has been gathering dust for a century, the pair of shorts I was wearing at the time strangely looked a lighter colour after I had finished...lol.