Glue Spots

[adam]

Request: Photos of Glue Spots.

I raised the issue of glue spots (again) when I met with our supplier recently.

There is some difficulty in the language barrier, so they have asked for some photos of glue spots, if we have any

I know I've seen some on the Forum, does anyone have any they can send to me?

[wokkaboy]

Hey Ads,
this is a build from 2013 but it's still valid, a PRS-1S with spalted maple veneer, you can even see the glue spots on the raw body out of the box the darker areas.
You can clearly see the glue spots when the stain is on.
Basically any kit with a veneer the factory have to set a rule that once the veneer is glued on the factory workers should remove gloves or put fresh gloves on and minimise touching the bodies. Looks like my body they have wiped their gluey hands over the veneer to clean their hands !
I am also glad my bursts have improved from 4 years ago too haha

[Simon Barden]

There's Kick's LP-1MQ with a very visible glue line right round the edge and down the centre line (its also got an off-centre join).





Which looks more like seepage up from below rather than gluey fingers.

[Dedman]

I think the veneer is so thin that the glue pushes through it as they are usually around the edges where perhaps a die or template presses down

[Kick]

Thanks Simon! I read this topic at 05:15 this morning before leaving for work and my plan was to post some pics when I got home.

Indeed these are the very clear pics of what I ran into and hopefully Adam can use these as well to make sure that the overall quality (and qualtity checks!) are going up a level.

@Dedman: totally agree with your thoughts

One thing; I'm very happy with my kit but I'd like to have seen a glueless top with a perfect center join of the beautiful quilted maple. Unfortunately it isn't....

[Simon Barden]

I think there's a mixture of both. Some spots are clearly on the top and can be easily removed with nothing underneath. Other spots are all the way through the wood.

[Brendan]

Here's an older one as well. Haven't done a veneer guitar for a while.
BP

[Simon Barden]

Oooh, that was a bad one, Brendan! Looks mainly like seepage through the veneer on that one.

[Kick]

Too bad man... It must have been a real bummer when you noticed this

[adam]

Thank you chaps, very helpful. I will send these pics to the Factory now.

Once solution they have offered to the "Thin Veneer" issue... Double veneer. That is, they actually apply two thin layers of veneer onto the body.

Would this work? I imagine if you sanded through the top layer, you would hit the under layer that may have a different pattern/colour to the top layer. However, usually these "sand through" areas are quite small, so maybe it would work.

Thoughts?