Looking really good.
Great to see buddies working together and creating some very nice looking guitars.
Looking really good.
Great to see buddies working together and creating some very nice looking guitars.
There is always a workaround for glitches, mistakes and other Guitar building gremlins.....
So, Brett was away for a few weeks and I thought I'd do my fret levelling. I decided to go old school, and leave the katana for another time.
I managed to order and receive my radiused sanding block and diamond fret file, as well as tusq nut, but have yet to find the time to get stuck in ...
... probably because I have become a bit obsessed with getting the colour I want on the body.
I'd started to get a nice warm tone:
And then disaster struck, and I noticed 4 or 5 deep, dark scratches running across the face of the body!!!!
I'm not sure if they had always been there, or I did them recently, but here's what I've learnt:
1. Sand properly the first time.
2. Then as DB says - sand, sand and sand some more
3. Sand some more
4. Sand a little bit more
5. If you're going to try to make a custom colour (say goldenrod, with saffron to darken/warm it a little) do one of the following:
- Either mix the colours at the outset and use the same liquid for each coat
or
- If you sand anything back at any point, start with the first colour you used, and then only add the darker colour in later.
Otherwise you end up with dark patches in the area you fixed ... and you have to sand again and start again!!
The colour looks fantastic! Keep us posted, guys!
"Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out."- Jaco Pastorius
Also, when you move your buddy's guitar out of the shed, into the house, to keep it safe while he is away, try not to let the screen door smack into it!!
And if you do, when you're repairing the area, see point 5 above!!
oh, and make sure to keep your work area free of anything that might scratch your guitar - especially if you haven't followed point 5 above, because you wont see the scratches until you put the darker colour wudtone coat on, and then they'll stand out like dogs bollocks!!!
Lol. That's exactly what I said.
Is that Dark Amber? That's what I put on mine, it's not a very forgiving colour. I had a few area's I was worried about. But they blend in a little after a few coats. Though the DA does hilight any defects very easily.
Yours is looking good though.
Edit. Just read back a page and saw that this is a GR and saffron mix. It looks a lot like the Dark Amber I'm doing on mine.
One more thing. I'm using a similar jig for finishing, but Mine is the other way around like you say you wish u had of. Here's some pics of how I've done it With the block in the back. You could just rebate the neck support and screw the body support on the back.
Couldn't add the pics I was in quick reply.
Yeh, I was looking at Dark Amber for ours, but after advice from DB decided to go with the GR and Saffron mix - although, as I said I kinda wished I'd mixed them from the start, and then just added a couple of light coats of pure saffron at the end ... which is basically what I have ended up doing - a couple of just GR, then a couple of mixed, then I'm hoping to do a few just Saffron, but due to all these mistakes I have almost run out, even with the top up that DB sent me!/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from DanMade on August 1, 2013, 18:10
Is that Dark Amber?
... Just read back a page and saw that this is a GR and saffron mix. It looks a lot like the Dark Amber I'm doing on mine.
Actually, that reminds me - DB, I went to order some Saffron, just by itself (ie I don't need the whole Saffron kit with top coats and highlights, etc, but discovered you can't actually do this. Is this something you guys can organise? If I could just purchase some Saffron that would cover 2-3 coats on both guitars I already have the top coat and highlights I bought originally.
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