Ahh ok, thanks davey...This is the one i thought or maybe find the way to stamp a transparent sheet printed logo onto white pickguard material or White plastic.
Ahh ok, thanks davey...This is the one i thought or maybe find the way to stamp a transparent sheet printed logo onto white pickguard material or White plastic.
sometimes you eat the bear....and sometimes the bear eats you
I have a friend who does custom engraving. Hes done some small aluminum plates for me in the past, that were black, and the engraving was obviously silver. Im wondering if he could take my illustrator vector file, and engrave through the white top layer of a white-black-white piece of pickguard.... hmmmm... food for thought...
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Hello..
So I started working on "Kilmister One" today.. I am now wavering on messing with the binding.. I can still do it on the table router, but I dont know yet..lol. I laid everything out, got the neck and bridge positions measured and marked, and the body marked for carving. I have ideas for a wooden humbucker ring as well as a flush mounted, wooden control cavity cover.
I am past the point of no return! I learned something today.. .. Don't route out the boundaries of your carving areas before you carve.. seemed like a good idea until I slipped across the channel with the dremel and took a few nice chunks out of the side that isnt supposed to have any chunks out! I think I have an idea to fix that though...stay tuned for that. The carving is going fairly well. Im doing a combination of hand gouges and dremel. I started by drawing a pencil outline on the wood and engraving it in with the dremel, then went to town on it. I really wasnt sure until I got going.. now, I'm pretty happy. I still have a ton of shaping and smoothing to do, but it's getting there! I didnt want to do a Lemmy replica, but wanted to tribute HIM as well as his Ric... Enjoy the pics... more work tomorrow!!
Dave
Great job mate, its looking pretty good.
Hi all... I have been working like crazy on the bass every chance I get. Ive been taking pictures, I just have to resize them to post.. The carvings are done.. I ended up using the black and white binding stuff (which is more like purfling), to fix the chunks I took out of the edges.. Im glad I did. It looks really sharp! I did some stain tests in the cavities and chose my stains. I am leaving the neck natural, with a Behr Tung oil based, wipe on varnish.. Its smooth as heck, and satiny-low /gloss. Sand, sand sand and the front is stained! I had a bit of a setback today.. Im a moron, and assumed that Id be able to scrape any stain off of the binding... the cream was a piece of cake, but not so much with the black and white stuff. I ended up removing it (pain in the a$$!!). In doing that, I put a couple scratches in the field of wood around the edge.. soooo.. sanded the areas back, scratches out, re-stain, move on. I replaced the binding stuff, and made my flush-mount, walnut cavity cover. It started as a 3/4"(19mm) thick board.. thank god I have a thickness planer at work! I got it to about 3-4 mm, and it fits perfectly flush with the top... the pictures will make sense of what I just said..lol. I also made my pickup ring from the same planed piece of walnut... Next, I will move on to the edges, which will be stained black. Ill probably sand the back some more, and then I am creating a new "color" for the back. I will explain that when I post pics! Lol...
Stay tuned..
Dave
Very nice work mate...
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