LP jr - JohnH's #5

[Simon Barden]

Same for me when I was travelling up to London each day.

[JohnH]

I know how you feel. I have too many builds sitting around like this.

2 - 3 hour commute from Canberra? Geez

Yeah, I was driving from Ngunnawal to Tuggeranong, so I was literally driving from one end of town to the other, with two school drop offs on the way and morning traffic to contend with. If I got there in an hour I was lucky, but an hour and a half was more normal, so three hours a day in a car. It wasn't great

[JohnH]

Same for me when I was travelling up to London each day.

Isn't it the worst!

[JohnH]

So I somehow managed to sand through the finish AGAIN. There are no words to describe the frustration.

[Simon Barden]

There are loads of four letter-ones, and I used those a lot yesterday myself. You probably heard me.

It is frustrating. Nothing I did yesterday worked well.

[JohnH]

Ha ha ha, yes I must admit there were quite a few four letter ones.

Having taken a few deep breaths and thought about it for a bit it's actually probably for the best. There were a few things I wasn't happy about with the finish anyway, and while it is very time consuming to strip it again I'm still working from home until July so I have some extra time and it means I can hopefully fix those issues.

[JohnH]

I'm actually really glad I've had to strip this, as it's shown me what a terrible job I did the first time. All the areas that I was having issues with were the first to sand down, and were obviously raised. Since I first sanded this kit I've invested in a very flat work surface and a straight edge, and so now I've also found the right hand side of the back is dipped quite substantially.

[JohnH]

I've ordered more tru oil and some Aquacoat, so hopefully this weekend I can get this sanded down and actually flat, and can get the whole thing rolling again.

[ThatCluelessGerman]

Very curious what your experience with Aquacoat are going to be, I'll def. get some grain filler for my next build, too.

[Woltz]

So I somehow managed to sand through the finish AGAIN. There are no words to describe the frustration.

John I feel your pain. My kit tele was just as frustrating. Maybe one day I'll go back and redo it, although to be honest I'm considering offloading it because I have other scratch builds planned and it taunts me everytime I look at it because I never got the finish right. Plays ok though.