no worries Cascadia, I had a look at the pre-painting pics and saw the binding is quite wide and it's not a PBG kit.
Tough decision to paint over flame maple veneer !
no worries Cascadia, I had a look at the pre-painting pics and saw the binding is quite wide and it's not a PBG kit.
Tough decision to paint over flame maple veneer !
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
I did feel a little bad about that because it has some nice flame on it. But this particular project didn't call for it, and if you look closely at the photos you'll see that they totally messed up the joint line on the veneer.Originally Posted by wokkaboy
Completed Projects:
non PBG LP Custom - Hetfield 'Uncle Milty' Iron Cross replica
non PBG Brownstein Stratocaster
Current WIP:
non PBG Stratocaster - Canadian Red Ensign
PBG FV-1G Custom
wow yeah the veneer join line is way off centre and the flames don't match. Oh well no one will know now its covered in black paint !
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
Don't leave it too long to take the tape off and scrape the binding. The softer the paint is, the easier it is to scrape.
In keeping with Simon's advice I got onto peeling the tape and scraping the bindings tonight. Here are the before photos with the tape peeled off. It was a sloppy tape job but I just wanted to minimize the amount of paint to scrape.
Completed Projects:
non PBG LP Custom - Hetfield 'Uncle Milty' Iron Cross replica
non PBG Brownstein Stratocaster
Current WIP:
non PBG Stratocaster - Canadian Red Ensign
PBG FV-1G Custom
And here are the results after a tedious evening of scraping.
Completed Projects:
non PBG LP Custom - Hetfield 'Uncle Milty' Iron Cross replica
non PBG Brownstein Stratocaster
Current WIP:
non PBG Stratocaster - Canadian Red Ensign
PBG FV-1G Custom
Looks pretty sweet so far CCG!
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Sweet indeed. Scraping is tedious and those paint flakes stick to everything!
Looking awesome CGG. I can't wait to see that done. I love the black with the layered binding.. keep up the good work. I am hopefully putting my last coat of clear on tonight then sit and wait to cure for final cut and polish.. then two more kits waiting to get started.
I would it cut back flat after a couple of days; it's just the finer grades of grit and the polishing that you need to wait for the full two weeks or more to do. Sanding back will considerably increase the surface area of the finish, and so help it dry.
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