Ash Strat Reset

[kells80aus]

resent pics, C & P into prev message. :P

[kells80aus]

Oh Yeah meant to mention once I got what I thought was a nice even coat, I went over teh whole body with a clean swabb of cotton just to make sure there were noa areas of runs bubbles or dobbs..

Oh Yeah, I now have a Yellow thumb. blew a hole in a glove. BWAHHHHH

Cheers pk

[gavinturner]

Buttserscotch is looking nice. This is a great Wudtone colour and the colour depth will increase substantially with subsequent coats. Coming along nicely!

cheers,
Gav.

[kells80aus]

Hi Gav,

how many coats did you apply. this ash body has soaked up a lot of base coat. the bottle is now half full, I expect I will only get 2 maybe 3 more coats out of it. I alaso found that it is wise not to use fine cotton, a heavier grade might have used less base coat, as I used a few swabbs to do the whole body.

DB/Adam might need to mention what to soak the swabbs in when cleaning up. I tried water,,,, nothing, tried metho, nyada, tried turps, woot. Cleaned up the swabbs nicely.

Cheers PK

Cheers PK

[gavinturner]

Hey Paul,

I reckon i got about 5-6 coats on, but the Jnr is a much smaller body than your strat. On the positive side, you will find that the first coat soaks up the most Wudtone and that subsequent coats will be much thinner. You should get a few more quite easily. Going well!

cheers,
Gav.

[kells80aus]

Ok, just made a decision. I have all the gold hardware bits, less the bridge, SO got on ebay and ordered a gold bridge $18, this baby will sport gold tuners, even if the do have an ibanez stamp on the back. Gold jackplate and jack, gold neck plate, gold pickguard screws. But it will have black pickups. I have 2 belcat dual rails for neck and mid pickup and a belcat black sealed humbucker for the bridge. The rails are four wire, and I don't really see much point in splitting them as they are only 12K with both coils in series. the humbucker is only two wire, although I could take the gold cover off another one and shove a black cover on it, it is four wire and is 15.4K.
This would give me the effect of a true single coil neck. however given the dual rails are so hot it would just become a mediocre pickup in single coil mode.
I am still in two minds about the pickguard itself. I have teh cinamon, which looks nice and the black pearloid, both are SSh pickguards. I'll wait until I get teh finish coat on before I decide on which one to use. either would be stunning.with the gold embelishments. I think the gold will set off the Butterscotch body perfectly...

I'll also have to decide on teh nob colours. I have a choice of Black, white, gold top hats or Clear... the clears may get the nod here... but we'll see


Cheers PK

[kells80aus]

applied the second coat this morning after a gap of 30 hours. only used a quarter of the amount of Wudtone that I used on the primary coat. I was even scrapping drops of wudtone out of the lid and putting it back in the bottle.
I should easily get 6,7 or more coats.

Cheers PK

[gavinturner]

Good work! I know that feeling - conserving every drop of Wudtone! If you like more of a solid colour it is always a good idea. I've had to do it on both my Wudtone builds, but it was worth it.

cheers,
Gav.

[kells80aus]

Day 3, Coat 3 of Butterscotch. Gave the body a light rub over with 000 Fine Steel wool, then applied the third coat of base coat. Each coat has seen a little more butterscotch colour come into the wood.
This time I drizzled about a 20 cent piece diameter spot onto the Jam Jar lid. Yesterday it was an area about the size of a 50c piece. Today there was no waste of WT. I have been marking the bottle with a felt pen each time I use it. first coat was about 5 mm, this coat was about 2.. of WT used.

Cheers PK

[kells80aus]

Looking at the pickguard choices and knob choices...
Four colours of pickguard to choose from White of course, Red Pearl(HSH) Black Pearl(SSH) or Cinamon(SSH)
Knob choices are white, black, clear, Gold or Gibbo Golds.
Pick ups are two sets rails, and a Black Humbucker.