Maiden69 Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 I know is fine, but look at mine with a black stain and look at yours, it needs to penetrate nice and even so that when you sand back and wipe the next color, it stays in the grain, if it is weak, it won't bring that 3d look too much, and you run the chance or not sanding too much because you will remove it, then when you stain the colr you run the chance of wiping the black out or making it look too weak. Now this IMO, so what ever suits you best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CudBucket Posted April 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 I see what you mean. Maybe I need to mix it stronger. I may just wait for my Homestead stain to get here and mix that real dark for another coat of wash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CudBucket Posted April 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 Sanded the wash coat back to 220. The highlighted figure is much more pronounced in person than the pic shows but it's not black. It's silver/gray. I'm going to give it another wash coat mixed a bit darker. http://www.downinfrontht.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Sorbera Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 (edited) hey cud I was just looking at your website in the places where you test fit your trem and I can't help but notice that it doesn't look like the strings will go over the pole peices of the pickups. Are you sure you got everything centred? Might be something to check out before It's -too- late. It's this pic. It doesn't look like the trem is centred on the pickup. Edited April 20, 2005 by Godin SD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CudBucket Posted April 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 Hmm. I'm not sure I see it. It looks OK to me. Can you be more specific about what I should be looking for in the pic? The pencil line doesn't appear to fall on center on the bridge but I think that's just the angle of the picture. Does anyone else think it's off? Thanks. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Sorbera Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 look at the saddles on the bridge. The right saddle is set prety far into the pickup (like far left) And the left saddle is like right on the line of teh edge of the pickup. It could just be the picture angle but I just pointed it out too see if you needed to do anything about it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CudBucket Posted April 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 I appreciate your opinion Godin. I apologize for being so dense. Granted the lines I've drawn are not perfect but they are close and seem OK to me. But since you've brought it up, I'm curious to see what other people might think. You guys have been at this longer than me and would know better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooten2 Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 It's probably just the camera angle and/or some kind of optical illusion from the grain pattern that makes it look a little funny. As long as the bridge posts are the same distance from the center line, it should be fine. Great work, Cud! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CudBucket Posted April 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 Thanks ooten. That I can attest to. Everything is centered on that glue line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott from _actual time_ Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 your stuff looks pretty-well centered to me. even if it is off a little bit, pickups will still pick up string vibration from an area that is wider than the actual pole pieces. i've only ever noticed a difference in sound if the string was not overtop of any portion of the pole. even in that case, the pickup still worked fine, but there was a tonal difference between down-picked notes and up-picked, since one was moving the string closer to the pole and the other father away. the magnetic field also extends longer than the actual poles. the idea that a pickup would pick up no sound at the 24th fret node is untrue because the magnetic field is so much longer than the tiny length of the node. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CudBucket Posted April 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 Got my Homestead Transfast dyes yesterday: Turquoise Blue and Orange. Now I don't know what to use! Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Sorbera Posted April 22, 2005 Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 Go for orange! This guitar is just screaming out for orange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooten2 Posted April 22, 2005 Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 That's a tough choice. Both colors would look really good. How about a blue-orange burst? Just kidding! I'm leaning towards the turquoise blue. But if Godin says orange... he's the man ever since I saw that buh buh bubinga guitar. Cud, the wood work on your guitar looks so good, anything will look great (except paint!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoryKer Posted April 22, 2005 Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 I really hope you go with orange for this project! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CudBucket Posted April 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 My first choice ever was orange. Why? Because it's going to look so good against the fretboard. Plus, the mahogany back will look great with that stain. Then I saw someone post two tele projects where one was a yellow and one was a blue. The blue he used was the turquoise and I loved it. I'm thinking of doing orange for this one because it was my gut instinct and then the turquoise for my explorer. And thanks for the encouragement everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Sorbera Posted April 22, 2005 Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 But if Godin says orange... he's the man ever since I saw that buh buh bubinga guitar. LoL. I can't believe anyone thought that guitar was cool. In about a week I will make a new neck for it (the fret job on the old one SUCKED). And I will re finish it and make darn sure to fill the grain until I have a nice smoooooth finish. THAN it will be a force to be reconed with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CudBucket Posted April 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 Are there any pics of that guitar on this site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Sorbera Posted April 23, 2005 Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 There sure are. Here is the link to the topic, link =). Thers some pics on like each page so go through it and see all the pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CudBucket Posted April 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 Duh! I remember that one! It's a beauty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitman32 Posted May 6, 2005 Report Share Posted May 6, 2005 CudBucket - Hows the progress coming?? Cant wait to see her finished! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CudBucket Posted May 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2005 Hey man. I did a coat of black dye, sanded back, then a coat of turquoise and sanded back, then I diluted the turquoise dye by 50% and wiped on the the final color coat. I hope to grain fill and maybe start the Sanding Sealer coats this weekend. I've added a "Finish Stage" page on my site. Here's a pic of the body as it looks now. The I need to level my frets and then oil and wax the neck. But I need to do a decal logo first. Here's my fretboard as it looks now. There are more pics on the "Slotting the Fretboard" page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pibrocher Posted May 6, 2005 Report Share Posted May 6, 2005 Great looking turquoise. Its nice to see some good photos too. I hate fuzzy low-res shots. That light across the fretboard makes it look even more awesome. It reminds of something an artist friend of mine was saying about pedistals. If you take a sculpture and stick it on a table, then its a sculpture on a table. But if you place that same sculpture in a museum on a pedistal it becomes a work of art. Makes you question how much the surroundings and situational details afect a person's perception of beauty. The pedistal (and its affect on the presentation) is as much a part of the artwork as the sculpture itself. Too true, is that a well taken photgraph of an excellent piece makes our impression of the artist and his/her art that much higher. Know what i mean? Anyway, nice work man. Can't wait to see it SHINE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarMan686 Posted May 6, 2005 Report Share Posted May 6, 2005 Very Beautiful Work man I wish I could build something as nice as that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maiden69 Posted May 6, 2005 Report Share Posted May 6, 2005 It looks great, I just went to your site to look up, and you should have posted the pic that the stain was still wet, that will be as close to the finished paint as you can get. I would have left the mahogany natural with the black wash coat only, it looked amazing, I love the color of mahogany with the black accentuated grain. Like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CudBucket Posted May 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2005 Thanks everyone. Maiden, I did debate the issue with staining the mahogany or not. Then I really liked the way the mahogany looked when the turquoise was wet so I went with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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