whoofnagle Posted May 22, 2005 Report Share Posted May 22, 2005 Here is a pick of my first attempt at doing a blue guitar. I think it turned out okay. Pic turned out small : here is the link Blue top Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meegs666 Posted May 22, 2005 Report Share Posted May 22, 2005 pretty damn good for a first attempt bro. im a fan of blues and greens on figured tops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jehle Posted May 22, 2005 Report Share Posted May 22, 2005 That is good looking. I don't care much for green guitars, but blue is a great color. Is this a body you made too? Everything looks really nice and clean. Well matched top, clean routes. Now it needs a big chrome bigsby tremlo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setch Posted May 22, 2005 Report Share Posted May 22, 2005 Looks nice, even colour, and as Jehle noted, nice cleanwood working. However, you need to tidy up the natural binding, or you'll kick yourself later. IMO even width, clean, crisp, binding (real or faux) is a must on a nice guitar. If you settle, it'll bug you for ever. It's slow and painful to do, but it's the details which make or break a top notch guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoofnagle Posted May 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2005 Looks nice, even colour, and as Jehle noted, nice cleanwood working. However, you need to tidy up the natural binding, or you'll kick yourself later. IMO even width, clean, crisp, binding (real or faux) is a must on a nice guitar. If you settle, it'll bug you for ever. It's slow and painful to do, but it's the details which make or break a top notch guitar. ← Yeah - I know, It looks like a taped a little high in a few areas and some stain got through in others. I tried to make sure I sprayed enough sealer on the binding prior, but oh well. What is the best way to clean these types of mistakes? Here is another view of the binding: binding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setch Posted May 22, 2005 Report Share Posted May 22, 2005 I've had good results scraping strain off the top of binding, but have no idea how well this would work at removing stain from wood - not too well I'd imagine Maybe Drak will weigh in with some advice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maiden69 Posted May 23, 2005 Report Share Posted May 23, 2005 I'm trying to find that link that I had to Stew Macs blue tele that Dan finished. It had a natura lbinding and he had kinda the same problem, he fixed it by scraping the edge of the binding with a razor having a piece of binding taped up as a depth gauge. I did my guitar by sealing the edge with sanding sealer before staining, I still had a bit of stain on the edge, so I used a 320 grit sandpaper attached to a small block and sanded the edge of the guitar until it was clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksound Posted May 23, 2005 Report Share Posted May 23, 2005 Spray-finishing a guitar with aerosol lacquer: getting a glossy PRS-style finish in deep blue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maiden69 Posted May 23, 2005 Report Share Posted May 23, 2005 Thanks marksound, I try to find it on their site but no luck, and I have in on the favorites in my Laptop but it is in storage. Bookmarked again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksound Posted May 23, 2005 Report Share Posted May 23, 2005 I didn't have it at home this morning so I Goggled "stew mac trade secrets." Googled it, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoofnagle Posted May 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2005 Thanks for the link. I will try and clean up the edges a little. Most likely I will do some light touch up with 320/ 400 grit paper and then go back and add more sealer. Like another thread- when I was spraying the sides the mahag. seemed to coat much faster than the maple. You could see where the maple wassucking up the sealer. Some areas were nice and covered wile others still needed more. Hopefully I will post new pictures next week. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CudBucket Posted May 23, 2005 Report Share Posted May 23, 2005 Like another thread- when I was spraying the sides the mahag. seemed to coat much faster than the maple. You could see where the maple wassucking up the sealer. Some areas were nice and covered wile others still needed more. Hopefully I will post new pictures next week. Bill ← I found the same exact thing to be true. I'll be doing my fourth sealer coat today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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