Scratch Toronado

[JB RETRO]

The strongest glue I have found for timber work is Sika polyurethane glue. It foams out of the joint and is ridiculous strong. no good for neck joints etc where you want to keep it all clean but where you can belt or orbital sand its amazing stuff.

[gavinturner]

Hey guys,

As I noted above, I have finally got around to resurrecting this build after a classic Turner clear coat fail. I couldn't rightly abandon my first (and only!) scratch body build, now could I?

I sanded back the body completely, added a new coat of black dye and got the Tru-Oil going. This is now going to be a Tru-Oil-only build and I think that's the way most of my builds are going to stay from now on (unless I get Pollocking again ). Things are looking good already. I didnt apply the dye as darkly this time around, opting for more of a trans-black look. The pine is looking a little blotchy with less dye in it, but that's to be expected for this wood type - I'm not that fussy. Any variation in the finish is good AFAIC. I'm not even sure whether I'll bother getting the body to a full gloss of not. I'll just keep applying layers of TO until I'm happy.

I gotta say, I forgot how much I love this body shape. I think after this one is done I'll get on to another, although I'll have to start from scratch again as my template is ruined.

cheers,
Gav.

[wokkaboy]

looks great Gav, glad you came back to the scratch build and are enjoying it !

[gavinturner]

Thanks Wokks. I've gotta get some time to do some real scratch building!

cheers,
Gav.

[vh2580]

looking good Gav.

[andrewdosborne]

Good to see this up and running again. Arghhh the Tru Oil, hard to give up!

[gavinturner]

Thanks Tony and Andrew! Yeah Andrew I keep coming back to the TO. It's easy, it's forgiving, and the finish looks good. What more do you want?

cheers,
Gav.

[robin]

Looks great Gav. Love the colour combination of the body and scratch plate with the maple neck. T.O. for me too, I'm not game to try anything else.

[stan]

Great job Gav, good to see these moving on.
Seems we have the same luck with clears, I've gone nitro and you the TO, looks like we have it covered haha.
Looks good mate, very cool retro look, love it

[gavinturner]

Hey thanks Rob, thanks Stan. I think we can all agree that clear coats are the worst. I have used nitro before Stan (on my very first build!) and it's great. Its just a little pricey when you're building kits by the bucketful :P. I am tempted to try poly again.

cheers,
Gav.