ScottR Posted October 21, 2014 Report Share Posted October 21, 2014 Because everyone likes pictures right? Well......yeah. And shiny guitars. And beer. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdshirtman Posted October 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 All three pieces sanded and buffed. I was leveling/polishing frets last night. While finishing up and removing the tape protecting the fretboard I peeled a sizable chip off the side of the neck. You'll have to forgive the sin of not taking pictures of it but I wasnt really in the mood. But I did miss a good opportunity to document the fix. I'm not so upset that it happened as much as I am about the extra time its going to take to cure the touch up. I was so close to installing the hardware on that one. (It happened to the spalt) I'll try and document the second stage of the repair. *Sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted October 28, 2014 Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 I feel for you buddy. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verhoevenc Posted October 28, 2014 Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 I've found a nice little way around that. What I'll do is put the tape on the fretboard but not press it down so it makes a perfect edge. More like sticking to the frets and lightly to the board. Paint flows under... but here's the trick. I've left the final fret edge dressing til now. That way when I run my file over the edge to finalize the angle at the fret ends I stop when it LIGHTLY hits the board. That's now the edge of my lacquer. I'll then go in with a fresh razor blade and with two quick passes any paint that hit the board's face it dealt with. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdshirtman Posted October 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Thanks for the info. That makes a lot sense and is a very pragmatic approach. Is that kind of a standard practice? For me I think that leaving that small bit to be beveled would hinder the method that I use to bevel my frets. Partly because I kind of roll the edges of my board before I apply finish. I'd be afraid of doing the roll with lacquer applied in fear of damaging it. Either way I have to come up with a better method that eliminates the possibility of that happening again. ANyone else want to reveal how they handle this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 I'm sure you won't find this helpful.......but I've gone completely to oiled necks. The issue is truely eliminated and the neck feels better. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killemall8 Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Man, i cant tell you how many times i have had something like that happen. The most recent being an explorer i had spent almost a year refinishing over and over. I had a buyer for it and it was pretty much done. I masked off the back area to re rout the control cavity cover recess of finish and when i took the masking tape off it took a 4" long chunk of clear coat with it. Biggest pain ever. I gave up and painted it after that. Those guitars look pretty dang awesome though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdshirtman Posted November 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Man, i cant tell you how many times i have had something like that happen. The most recent being an explorer i had spent almost a year refinishing over and over. I had a buyer for it and it was pretty much done. I masked off the back area to re rout the control cavity cover recess of finish and when i took the masking tape off it took a 4" long chunk of clear coat with it. Biggest pain ever. I gave up and painted it after that. Those guitars look pretty dang awesome though. Thanks Bro. A years worth of refinishing would drive me nuts. I have pretty decent patience but it has its limits. After a year of refinishing I think I would have turned it into a boomerang. BTW am I the only one here who absolutely hates wiring? Its my Achilles heel for sure. Not my favorite part of building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 BTW am I the only one here who absolutely hates wiring? Its my Achilles heel for sure. Not my favorite part of building. Nope. It's my weakest point and least favorite part as well. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killemall8 Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 I used to hate wiring. I dont mind it at all now. I remember when it used to seem like the hardest thing ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdshirtman Posted November 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Well its nice to know I'm not alone. It's not so much the simple stuff like basic bucker wiring. It's when I start screwing with push pull pots and the like. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdshirtman Posted November 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 I just raided my SD card so here's a photo filled lunch update. I've had this chunk of marble I bought for leveling frets sitting around for months. Since it was time to level frets I finally got around to slicing it up on the tile saw. It took over an hour to get cut but it yielded 3 nice 2" x 3/4" x 18" pieces. The weight of the stone allows you to just scrub without any pressure. It works the charm. Ahh the joys of crowning. As I said earlier I had some lacquer chip off the edge of the fretboard. To fix properly I sanded it down and reshot it. I ended up buying a single action airbrush for the job. This part on the opposite side needed quite a lot of coats to bring to the same level as the existing finish. It will be sanded down in the next few days. Nice new shiny frets. Clearing out the muck. No mas push pulls for now. Going for simple harnesses now. I took this before I noticed the error. Can anyone catch it? I should have some guitar pornography in the next week. Here's a sneak peek at some golden goodness. And thats all for today. Carry on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted November 7, 2014 Report Share Posted November 7, 2014 Your attention to detail is inspiring. These are going to be so hot! Wiring is not intuitive enough to me yet to see an error without a diagram in front of me. My first couple builds had push pulls and I found I never used them. I felt the changes in sound ended up being too subtle to mess with I guess. I think I'll be sticking the simplest wiring from now on......perhaps not as simple as RAD's, but straight up basic. I find the airbrush very usefull in finishing, especially for very smooth bursts. I think you'll end up being glad you added that to your arsenal. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdshirtman Posted November 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 Been a busy weekend. Heres an installment of eye candy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 That's gorgeouristical John, an absolute stunner! You neeed to GOTM that. Man oh man....... SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdshirtman Posted November 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 Thanks Scott. I might have to do that. *crickets* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 *crickets* Those suckers been pretty loud lately, haven't they? SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzz Posted November 21, 2014 Report Share Posted November 21, 2014 You know I was thinking the same thing, anyway cheers from Catalonia, hope everyone's projects are going well and the demons in the wood are not wreaking too much havoc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killemall8 Posted November 21, 2014 Report Share Posted November 21, 2014 Dang man. Your work looks like a better high end PRS type. Awesome work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwflyer Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 John: I like what you did with the flame maple top guitar. What tint/colored grain filler did you use for the neck, back and sides? The contrast between the top and remainder of the guitar is gorgeous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdshirtman Posted December 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 Dang man. Your work looks like a better high end PRS type. Awesome work. Thanks Killem. Thats a pretty nice compliment. John: I like what you did with the flame maple top guitar. What tint/colored grain filler did you use for the neck, back and sides? The contrast between the top and remainder of the guitar is gorgeous. Thank you. Go to post #58 on this thread. It shows the color of filler I used on this one. The mahogany on that one was pretty light so I used a thin wash of trans-tint mahogany brown to slightly increase the contrast between the maple and the mahogany. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwflyer Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 Very good I will take a look at the post. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwflyer Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 Did you mix the trans-tint med. brown in with your grain filler? I presume you are using a mahogany tint filler. One other question, did you seal the stained wood before applying the grain filler? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdshirtman Posted December 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 Did you mix the trans-tint med. brown in with your grain filler? I presume you are using a mahogany tint filler. One other question, did you seal the stained wood before applying the grain filler? Thanks. I used med- brown with a few drops of black in the grain filler. No sealer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdshirtman Posted January 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 On the computer today so here's some pics of the completed builds I left out. Heres the spalted carve top I did. I now know why I was warned against doing a carve top with this stuff. Boy was this a pain in the ass but with some persistence and the right piece (and a lot of wood hardener) its possible. Its also the first one I've ever done with all black hardware. I may or may not have mentioned it in an earlier post but the nut is bone that sat in a bucket of black trans tint for a week. And the blue one. And there it is. Geetars. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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