A bit of progress this morning...
Finished oiling the neck and have taped that all up ready for the fret dressing on the weekend and have done a couple of coats of cherry red stain around the sides of the body. It's going to have red back and sides and a sunburst top.
First coat on the back...
First coat of the yellow...
A quick question...
I’m going to use the Crimson Guitars finishing oil which looks pretty straight forward to use...but...do I need to tape up the binding again or does the oil just go over it to give it a smooth finish?
Or will it just wipe off?
I'd go over the binding with it. You would with a normal clear spray topcoat. It may tint it slightly more yellow - but I think it's a better look than the blinding white of scraped uncovered binding.
Thanks Simon! That’s what I was thinking!!
So next question!! I’ve let the wood settle down now and there is still a gap when the neck is in the neck pocket...any suggestions??
I got the electrics out this morning to have a look and god I’m confused!!!
I’ve downloaded the wiring diagram for a two humbucker, three way selector but it makes no sense to me!
Here is what I’m looking at...
On a different note, I’ve started oiling the body with Crimson Guitars penetrating finishing oil and am chuffed with how it is coming out! I will post some pics over the weekend of the body!
Whilst I'd still be tempted to leave it a little longer before doing anything to the neck joint, you can obviously start to have a look and see if there's anything in particular stopping the neck fitting in fully. I'd rub some chalk on the pocket join area, push the neck in and the high spots should leave a mark on the sides of the heel. You can sand those down, repeat, sand repeat until it all fits nicely.
Not a great pre-wired harness you've got there. I'd be tempted to start again as the wiring lengths between the volume and tone pots are rather excessive and the wires will tend to flap about inside a bit. The pots with the green capacitors attached are the tone pots, the other two are the volume. The long bits of wire attached to the volume puts are the pot outputs which run off to the selector switch.
The red wire attached to the back of one of the tone pots is the ground wire for the bridge.
It's made slightly more confusing due to the factory wiring the pots in shielded cable, rather than the singles cores the wiring diagrams normally use. In some instances, you want to use the braid as a ground link, and sometimes it only needs to be connected to ground at one end.
Thanks Simon. So along these lines...Originally Posted by Simon Barden
Where the red, grey and black wires join theres another one which is covered in solder...what’s that for? And the the long red one that goes no where...whats that for?
So in terms of the neck, in the PGB instructions it tells you not to sand the floor of the neck pocket or the bottom of the heel as there is a break angle incorporated so I’m a bit stuck!
There is a gap on one side of the neck (shown before) and the whole fret board seems pretty high when the neck is in place...I measured it at 15mm from the body to the fret board.
Not sure what to do about this...I know you suggested the chalk technique but without sanding the bottom of the neck or neck pocket how am I meant to sort it out?
Does it sound right or is the neck not right?
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