pauliemc Posted December 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2013 I was dipping a few bodies today, a way I sometimes apply clear if Im doing a few flat bodies like strats or teles or the like. Everything was going groovy. 01) big tub nice & clean for dipping bodies - Check ! 02) 10 litres of clear good to go - Check ! 03) Bodies lined up, clean, hooks installed for hanging - Check ! 04) Previously dipped bodies from this morning moved to drying rack - Check ! 05) Camera laying in tub of clear - Check ! Wait, What ?? everything WAS going groovey. I didnt even realise Id knocked it off the bench, no idea how long it was in the paint, but im fairly sure its completly screwed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted December 18, 2013 Report Share Posted December 18, 2013 Depends, did you dip it in sealer first? Holy crap Pop, maybe you really do need a minder. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supplebanana Posted December 18, 2013 Report Share Posted December 18, 2013 Whilst it may not be saveable - I hope you got some good "CLEAR" shots before hand sorry Paulie - I couldn't help it even tho' I shouldn't laugh at other's misfortune. Try removing the battery, soak the camera in IPA for a couple of hrs & then leave it somewhere warm to dry out. maybe it should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted December 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 na, its totaly screwed, doesnt do anything. But the card might b ok I suppose. Ill know monday, getting a new camera so I can check if the piks on the card are OK or gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted December 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 it still works !. the finish just peeld away from most of it when it dried, Looks like it was too viscous to get into anything vital & it must not have been in the goop for very long. Cool Anyway, I have 3 king Mojos under way. A King Mojo is one of my tele models. I dont make many & hardly ever to order as I only do them when I am rebuilding / recycling a bench. I am replacing the bench at the end of the workshop where I work on my bikes. Its seen a lot of abuse, Oil, Paint, Petrol, degreaser, rust remover, electrical contact cleaner, gearbox fluid, you name it - its been spilled on this bench over the past 4-5 years. before that the timbers were part of a scaffold around an old church bell tower that was being restored. Up there in the rain snow & ice from 2001 till about 2009. So battered to hell is a nice description for the timbers here. I stripped out the bench & am building / botching a new one from some scaffold board I have been using as part of the shop floor this past two years or so. (those are being replaced with some poplar & pine I got this week) Kinda why its so cramped in the shop just now & why I keep bumping into things - like the camera. So over the past few days I have been going thru all of the blanks I made up from the church - bike pine. Or as I call them the "Gods Harley boards". Faced & glued a few up & then tested them to see if they would hold up to being a body. Drop them, stand on them. put them in a vice & try snap them in two, smack em with a mallet for good measure & if they survive they are good to go. If not - they heat the shop. I made 12, 6 failed the abuse test. But one of them was creaking & fighting so much that I decided to glue it along the rip & make it into a Mojo for myself. Duno why - but I just dont feel right about this one burning so Im saving it. So. Piks. This one wasnt glued when I took the pik. This one was This is a third blank after being rough cut on the band saw to the body profile. All of these blanks are cleared on the front to keep the years of dirt & use intact, then glued together & tested as per description above. If they are to be used they are cut into rough shapes with the fronts left in this terrible shape. The backs & sides get cleaned up to a helf decent standard, but not the usual pristene finish you would expect. They still have to look "iffy" so they are left a little rough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted December 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 I love these knots & cracks. Before the clear is put onto these, all of the cracks are flooded with water thin CA. Same treatment for the knots. But this is only done AFTER the testing of the blank to see it it will fail. Bit of a closer look at the cracked & knotted face. as you can see from the edges, these are realy only superficial & dont go very deep. the back of this one. similar treatment to the cracks & knots as the front. Except that this is planed to thickness first. Then CA is added & the whole lot is sanded to 320 grit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted December 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 This is the one I have decided to spare the fire. This will be mine, but the others are to be sold on to whom ever wants them. With 7 on the go, One for me & 2 sold to a customer - that leavs 4 to go to Evilbay & the guitar stores Body with clear on the face, neck pocket made up, edges slightly rounded for an almost faux binding look. The nice big gouge out of where the fore arm bevel should do on a strat The big mangly hole & cracks in the bottom horn. This is the back of my Mojo. you can see the big evil scar along the entire lenght of the body at the top of the guitar. from just above the location of the hook its hanging from. It took a lot of effort to snap this, so I repaired it & will keep this one for myself. Personally I think it looks funky as hell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted December 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 Last pik. Neck sitting in place with bridge plate. So to sum up. My King Mojo's specs are as follows It will have a genuine Fender hardtail with pressed steel saddels (part of the Mojo). removed from the prototype Black Lotus before it was sold a few years back (ptototype mojo) What I call a Guinness neck - Wenge & ash. I rekon Wenge is kinda like a black ash. It kinda looks similar, blunts blades & sands similarly - its just dark. So Black ash with a white ash top = a Guinness neck, Also both are made in Dublin Ireland (Gaelic Mojo) I worked on the refit of James gate years back & Im building this guitar (more Mojo) & the last drink I had, about 2 years ago was a Guinness (Guinness mojo) The last of my abalone dots for the fret markers. I had 5000 of these @ 10 dots a guitar = 500th abalone dot neck mojo Also - the fret board is made from the only remaining piece of the Ash from building the wifes wedding strat - so thats cool - More mojo, In fact - one for the ladies - Romance Mojo Baby !! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willliam_q Posted December 22, 2013 Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 It's a great way to repurpose wood and make some money for yourself at the same time. I like authentic relic look guitars so this is right up my street. Looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sancho Marino Posted December 22, 2013 Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 Holy crap that guitar should be oozing mojo for the rest of it's life, you're going to have to wash up after playing that one, you'll smear mojo on everything else you touch I love the look though man, it's very cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted December 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 Cool man, glad you like it. The guy that baught the other two had a cool idea for one of his. A hardtail bridge like the one above - but with piezos. no other pickups. so all thats on the front of the guitar is a bridge & a vol knob. I taught I was cool runnin with just one humbucker, but he says "F*@K THAT - I want no pickups visable at all !!" I am soooooo stealing that idea from him once his are done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted December 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 just for shits-n-giggles, i think ill GOTM mine for February - if its done on time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 These are very cool Paulie--mucho mojo! You should probably splash some Jameson on one of them just to whiskey up the tone a bit or use it to tint the back and call it a whiskey finish...... SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted January 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 Last year I had an order for a crap load of hollow boxes (acoustics) At the end of it I decided to leav the anti Tesla briagde out of it for a while. So - to start this years builds off guess what I have a nice rush order for. 2 Hollow boxes Anyway excuse the iffy photo quality. this is one under way. There was still a lot to do in these. The edges needed to be cleaned up and then the kerfing went on & everything had to be levelled. The side braces had to be trimmed & the neck block trimmed back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted January 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 Jumped ahead & forgot piks. but what the hell. The back is on & the neck is being tested for fit & alignment with the bridge. then the bridge can be assessed for height. then the neck & bridge can be glued into place. The final pieces of binding & the remainder of the neck heel will go on later this week, then finish sand & clear coat it. In case anyone is interested the timbers are - Zebrano back & sides. Bearclaw spruce top. Hard ash binding. Wenge / Flamed maple bridge. Ebony fret board, Birds eye maple / Wenge / Ash 5 piece multi lam neck. Abalone dot inlays. Mahogany neck & tail block. Mahogany Kerfing. Walnut side braces. Cedar soundboard bracing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted January 27, 2014 Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 That is going to be a good looking box Paulie. I'm getting this tiny little itch to try an acoustic.....but it's pretty to easy to ignore and not scratch it so far. The process looks to bit a bit more rigid with boxes. I can change my mind about details pretty far into my electrics, but acoustics do not look to be particularly forgiving. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted January 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2014 You should give it a go scotty. Its interesting & a nice challenge. If yer interested in working with timber its a must at some stage. Even just making up the body mould can be a job in itself. But if you have no access to a bandsaw the tops backs & sides can get kinda pricy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted August 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 Its been a while since I put up anything. So here are a few of my King Mojo, just to try figure out how to use the new camera. koz im totally lost on how to use it properly 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted August 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 the camera buffs among you might know how to stop the whites looking so sharp I could shave with them On the plus side. The gitir is playing real nice, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 Its been a while since I put up anything. I'll say! Things must be howling at your shop. King Mojo looks like it would sound like Tennessee whiskey. As far as the blinding whites go, are you doing any tweaking to the files after you load them into your computer? Reducing the contrast and/or the brightness a little will knock the edge off them. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted August 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 Hey scotty. Na, things are kind slow. been making binding & headstock facings, neck blanks & body blanks, cutting up bones to make nuts n saddles & inlay. some equipment maintenance on planes, planers, band saw, chisels etc etc. time consuming little jobs that are boring as hell but just need to get done you know. between all that, the family commitments & one of my customers being a tool I just have had no time to be poking about on the forum. Congrats on GOTM btw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Thanks for that Paulie. Family commitments tend to take on a life of their own with a little one running around. I expect he's up and about and getting into everything about now. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted November 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 back in the shop today for the first time in 2 months. An unfortunate altercation between myself & a toyota camry didnt go so well & has had me out of action since early september . pokin about the place, I cant beleive the amount of abandoned bodies & necks I have from builds that had changes too late in them to salvage the part. since im still a bit mashed up & not realy able to use my tools (you should have seen my attempt at plaining some cedar to make a body blank ) I rekon I should see what I can make up from the bits of guitar corpses I have here. some of which are actually fairly nice but fer now its time to clear out most of the junk to make way for my harley - who fared even worse than me in the drunk dipshit behind the wheel ordeal, starting tomorrow i will be replacing the forks, risers, handle bars, tank, primary cover, derby cover, clutch lever (foot), foot rest, both rear shocks, swing arm bearings, rear fender & light nacel, rear wheel, motor mounts & rear indicators. lucky I have mates that are even bigger petrol heads than me who are chipping in to help me do it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted November 27, 2014 Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 Dude,I feel for you.I have had so many bike wrecks in the last couple of years that i just don't want to get back on one yet.The last one left me pretty sore.I left my bike over at a buddy's house(after getting it back on the road with a lot of new parts)a few months ago and I haven't missed it too much.TBH I don't know if I will ever be comfortable on it again. Been toying with the idea of getting a Harley Switchback,but I feel like I just don't know if I should.My BMW will likely have to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted November 27, 2014 Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 Also,I burned a whole bunch of my unfinished projects a few months back.I needed a fresh start...it was like an exorcism of sorts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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