Woltz's TLA-1Q

[king casey]

nearly got Hendrixed or Townshended

I remember a black and white shot of Townsend at the repairers with the caption 'What have I done?'
So there was some salvaging going on.

As for Tru-Oil on the neck, I'm not keen on that route. Lots of problems collecting dirt and dust.
Also easy to mark up while using the fret protectors in the buffing.
Wears quite quick too. Far better to seal it with a couple of layer of laquer set really hard.

cheers, Mark.

[Woltz]

The paua dots look fantastic. I’ve got some sitting here for my es-1 build but haven’t got around to it, Cheers for the inspiration 👍🏻

That does look a little bit special. I’ve never seen paua against maple before, nice.

Thanks guys, I'm liking the dots as well. Looking forward to seeing what they look like when the neck is finished.

Just catching up on some threads and sympathise with the challenges you have faced. None of my builds have gone to plan and quite often ended up with something totally different to what I had in mind.
In the end they are only perfect for a short while and once you start playing them they develop dings and scratches anyway. Don't beat yourself up too much as whilst we all strive for perfection by aiming for something that looks good, how it plays and sounds will be far more important in the long run.
Cheers, Waz

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Cheers Waz. I'm actually not bothered about them accruing dings and scratches once it starts being used. Just hoping for a nice finish to begin with to be really happy. I'm trying to see the positive side, which is that this has given me heaps of finishing practice (and hopefully skills) which I'll need to do a nice job on my scratch build stuff.

I remember a black and white shot of Townsend at the repairers with the caption 'What have I done?'
So there was some salvaging going on.

As for Tru-Oil on the neck, I'm not keen on that route. Lots of problems collecting dirt and dust.
Also easy to mark up while using the fret protectors in the buffing.
Wears quite quick too. Far better to seal it with a couple of layer of laquer set really hard.

cheers, Mark.

Yep I'm much happier with the plan to spray lacquer. I'm planning to go with amber tinted nitro.

[Fretworn]

Don’t give up. Relic the cr@p out of it if you have to, but at least get a playable guitar. Even if it is ugly.

[Woltz]

Well I've started sanding back the finish to do it again. I've also decided given the effort I'm going putting in to get the finish I want on the body, that I'd use the time to do a couple things to the neck. There are a couple of chips on the fretboard that I'd been ignoring from the start and when I managed to dirty the fretboard by accident when I polished it and the accumulation beside the frets from the original tru oil finish....things escalated.



Frets and black dots out.



New paua dots in.

I've got a radius sanding block coming from Adam and I'll sand the fretboard and refret before finishing the neck with tinted lacquer.

[Richy17]

The paua dots look fantastic. I’ve got some sitting here for my es-1 build but haven’t got around to it, Cheers for the inspiration 👍🏻

[DarkMark]

That does look a little bit special. I’ve never seen paua against maple before, nice.

[wazkelly]

Just catching up on some threads and sympathise with the challenges you have faced. None of my builds have gone to plan and quite often ended up with something totally different to what I had in mind.
In the end they are only perfect for a short while and once you start playing them they develop dings and scratches anyway. Don't beat yourself up too much as whilst we all strive for perfection by aiming for something that looks good, how it plays and sounds will be far more important in the long run.
Cheers, Waz

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[Woltz]

The roller coaster continues.

After deciding to have another go at the finish (saying to myself 4th times the charm), I had to go buy more paint and I thought hmmm I like the red but there is another colour that I really like and I wonder what it'll look like on a guitar.

So after a trip to SCA with the paint code I had one of these cans in my possession. As a side note, they spray quite well and the nozzle can be adjusted to give you vertical or horizontal spray pattern.



So I sanded back the red, sprayed some more primer, bit more sanding to get it flat and then after checking it looked good I sprayed the colour.

And here is the colour sprayed on the guitar.





Then the swear word. The paint has started sinking in a couple spots back into the grain of the wood. I'm confused as to why it happened now because I never had that issue when I finished it in the blue and the red.

Anyway, here is a photo in the sunlight. It's most obvious near the pickup cavities and neck pocket but there are a couple spots where it won't be covered by the pickguard that has the paint sinking into the grain.



Seems I truly am cursed with this guitar building thing. Anyway, now I need to decide whether to leave it, scrape the bindings and clear coat it or try to sand this flat and get another tin of paint and spray another couple coats of colour.

[I’ll give it a go]

The roller coaster continues.

After deciding to have another go at the finish (saying to myself 4th times the charm), I had to go buy more paint and I thought hmmm I like the red but there is another colour that I really like and I wonder what it'll look like on a guitar.

So after a trip to SCA with the paint code I had one of these cans in my possession. As a side note, they spray quite well and the nozzle can be adjusted to give you vertical or horizontal spray pattern.



So I sanded back the red, sprayed some more primer, bit more sanding to get it flat and then after checking it looked good I sprayed the colour.

And here is the colour sprayed on the guitar.





Then the swear word. The paint has started sinking in a couple spots back into the grain of the wood. I'm confused as to why it happened now because I never had that issue when I finished it in the blue and the red.

Anyway, here is a photo in the sunlight. It's most obvious near the pickup cavities and neck pocket but there are a couple spots where it won't be covered by the pickguard that has the paint sinking into the grain.



Seems I truly am cursed with this guitar building thing. Anyway, now I need to decide whether to leave it, scrape the bindings and clear coat it or try to sand this flat and get another tin of paint and spray another couple coats of colour.

I can see what you mean on the last pic about the lines. Looks a great colour though.


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[Woltz]

So during the binding scraping a few weeks ago I managed to slip and scratch the paint badly . So I'm refinishing yet again. Although I've definitely settled on this colour so I won't bother uploading any photos of the body until I've resprayed the colour and sprayed the clear.

I haven't had much time in the last couple weeks to do anything because I'd been rehearsing and practicing (on an instrument I can actually play, unlike guitar haha) quite a bit for the Canberra Wind Symphony concert last night.

However, I did get the neck fretted. I just need to pick up a small file to do the fret ends. Also there isn't a 12th marker dot missing, it's just a trick of the light reflecting off the shell inlay.