Looks awesome, great work.
I'm sure the blister will settle and you'll be able to get it smooth as you keep building the oil and letting it dry out.
Looks awesome, great work.
I'm sure the blister will settle and you'll be able to get it smooth as you keep building the oil and letting it dry out.
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Brother that is sweet, beautiful how that has come up. Nice work!
FrankenLab
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That is very nice, gotta luv a blue guitar
That's going to look fantastic when it's finished. Just be patient for it to dry and build up those coats. Awesome mate.
I have now put a couple of coats of oil on the top of the body , the first 3-4 coats have been largely absorbed into the timber. This las coat see picture is the first to get some gloss to the finish. And it is starting to look good
While waiting for oil coats to dry, I decided to look at the neck and the frets and to try to level them.
Using a straight edge I checked the neck as it came from the factory, it was slightly convex, as should have been
Using a small square I found 2 frets that were sitting high.
I then used the truss rod to straighten the neck and put the straight edge on the frets and used a feeler gauge to look for high and low points
I used a blue marking pen to highlight the frets and used some 320 grit sandpaper around a piece of milled hardwood to carefully level the frets
To check flatness I put the straight edge back on the fret board and tried the feeler gauges again, this time it would not go under any of the frets.
I believe I now will need to reprofile the frets.
Has any body on the forum made a good diy fret file or would I be better off just buying a fret file?
I just bought fret file myself, unlike decent nut files they're reasonably affordable.
Single nut files are affordable, it's having to buy a set of them that makes them less so!
Quilting looking lovely, Denial.
I have allowed the Tung oil to cure for about 10 days, the body has then been wet sanded with 800 , 1500 and 2000 wet and dry sandpaper
It has then been polished with meguiar's ultimate polishing compound
It is getting a lovely mirror finish.
oooh that looks nice, I'm going swimming in it.
Scott.
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