Lyn #13 - MMB-4 (Fretless)

[robin]

Pic #1 & 2 – The FB level and ready for the pour. The playing cards were used to level the board. (The playing cards are a part of my tool box as I use them when I need a very thin shim. Hey, paper is made of wood and the cards won’t compress or deform)

Pic #3 – After the pour

[robin]

Pic #1 – The thickness of the resin, you can also see the sharp edges of the meniscus

Pic #2 – Filing down the edges

Pic #3 – After about 45 minutes of sanding with 80 grit this is the result!!

[wokkaboy]

nice tutorial cheers Rob. Wow that epoxy looks up to 5-6mm thick.
So when you sand with finer paper will it be transparent ?

I'm very interested in how you prepped and poured the epoxy. I am using some epoxy resin for a different project. A new outdoor bar I am covering the bar top with beer caps and want to fill all the gaps with clear epoxy resin.
I'll ask some more questions when I collect enough lids !

[dingobass]

Now that was an excersise of patience

Will be very interested to see how it stands up to playing, it should be OK if you use flatties I guess..

[pablopepper]

Whoa. That's a whole lot more epoxy than I was expecting. Glad it turned out well, Rob.

[wokkaboy]

Good point DB, yes Rob you must only use flatwounds.

Roundwounds will probably chew big holes in the epoxy resin

[FrankenWashie]

Bro, that is ridiculously cool....not saying I'd do it, but it's still firetrucking cool.

I anticipate that you will rough down to near finished sizes and then up the sand paper numbers until you wet and dry for a flat glassy finish?

[tonyw]

Haha 10points for effort, good to see you got around it.

[robin]

nice tutorial cheers Rob. Wow that epoxy looks up to 5-6mm thick.
So when you sand with finer paper will it be transparent ?

I'm very interested in how you prepped and poured the epoxy. I am using some epoxy resin for a different project. A new outdoor bar I am covering the bar top with beer caps and want to fill all the gaps with clear epoxy resin.
I'll ask some more questions when I collect enough lids !

Thanks Warren, it will bit a little thinner by the time I have finished. I will be sanding through the grits to 2000 so I am hoping for a fairly nice finish.

In my research I found some great youtube tutes that might help you. Just search "pouring epoxy resin" there are heaps of them.

Now that was an excersise of patience

Will be very interested to see how it stands up to playing, it should be OK if you use flatties I guess..

Yeah Phil, I have no idea how it will stand up to the rigors of playing. I have already bought some flats, and I only play bass at church once a month, so I should be OK. Although epoxy has become popular because its stronger than wood and supposedly stands up to rounds better than wood. But I am sure that not all epoxy's are created equal, so I have no idea what I've got.

Cheers guys
rob

[robin]

Bro, that is ridiculously cool....not saying I'd do it, but it's still firetrucking cool.

I anticipate that you will rough down to near finished sizes and then up the sand paper numbers until you wet and dry for a flat glassy finish?

Thanks FW. Spot on mate, I'll be going all the way to 2000 grit. Hopefully it will give me a nice finish

Whoa. That's a whole lot more epoxy than I was expecting. Glad it turned out well, Rob.

Thanks Pabs. I wanted it fairly thick, firstly because I needed to fix the bad radius job I did originally, and secondly, not knowing how it will last I wanted to leave enough resin to be able to re-dress the FB a few times if I have to. It might be over-kill, time will tell.

Haha 10points for effort, good to see you got around it.

Thanks Tony, If first you don't succeed, etc, etc.

Cheers Guys
rob