birch Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 Very nice finish. All the sore muscles pays off in the end. I can't stand the leveling stage. My wife thinks sanding is a great zen activity, I disagree. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMpleONe89 Posted June 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 Haha my wife thinks so too! Sometimes I make sanding a fun project and make her do it. : So I started repairing the chip with some lacquer drop filled. I also noticed these ugly little white dots in some places on the headstock. I've had this problem on a previous build where I used the same acrylic brand but with a black finish. Does anyone know the cause of this? I always made sure I sprayed on dry days (<60% humidity in my garage). The spots only came out after wet sanding and weren't there before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birch Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 (edited) 37 minutes ago, SIMpleONe89 said: Haha my wife thinks so too! Sometimes I make sanding a fun project and make her do it. : So I started repairing the chip with some lacquer drop filled. I also noticed these ugly little white dots in some places on the headstock. I've had this problem on a previous build where I used the same acrylic brand but with a black finish. Does anyone know the cause of this? I always made sure I sprayed on dry days (<60% humidity in my garage). The spots only came out after wet sanding and weren't there before. Pinholes, I've had the same problem with acrylic when I've sprayed the next coat too soon after ther previous coat. The coat underneath keeps off gassing after the second coat skins over. It seems to stick mostly to edges where wet finish tends to pool thicker than the rest of the flat areas. That's probably not the only cause but I cured it by leaving subsequent coats until the very end of the flash window to give the early coats as much time to flash as possible. Edited June 27, 2016 by birch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 That is usually caused by too much clear going on to fast.......ask my how I know that. See above. Blush remover can help sometimes, at least with nitro. Acrylic has it's own style of craziness. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMpleONe89 Posted June 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 Thanks for the help. Glad to know it wasn't an issue with humidity but my own impatience! I did wait at least 2 hours in between coats. Maybe there were days where I rushed things and it didn't dry enough. Lesson learned! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMpleONe89 Posted June 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 Oh but the surface is flat and I thought pinholes meant areas of sunken spots. Anyway I probably won't be spraying another finish for a long time, but glad I learned something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birch Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 1 minute ago, SIMpleONe89 said: Oh but the surface is flat and I thought pinholes meant areas of sunken spots. Anyway I probably won't be spraying another finish for a long time, but glad I learned something. The rattle cans put a lot of material down really fast and it tends to create a thicker ridge on edges of flat surfaces, something to do with surface tension in liquids I believe... High humidity does increase the drying time though so it could have just extended the flash time a little longer than the normal recoat window. Rattle cans are convenient when you're just doing a project or two but you can't beat the control of an hvlp spray setup. They are expensive initially however... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMpleONe89 Posted June 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 That explains it! Thanks for the help! So is there a way to get rid of the white spots? Scott suggests blush remover. I could try that but I'm tempted to leave it alone because I don't want to risk any more potential damage haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birch Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 6 minutes ago, SIMpleONe89 said: That explains it! Thanks for the help! So is there a way to get rid of the white spots? Scott suggests blush remover. I could try that but I'm tempted to leave it alone because I don't want to risk any more potential damage haha. I don't know if that would work on acrylic but it might be worth a try. Personally I would mask everything but the headstock face, scuff it, make sure any ridge is gone and give it a couple light coats to seal things up. Shouldn't take much material to fill and cover the pinholes. Or just leave it, it doesn't look like a huge deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMpleONe89 Posted June 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 24 minutes ago, birch said: I don't know if that would work on acrylic but it might be worth a try. Personally I would mask everything but the headstock face, scuff it, make sure any ridge is gone and give it a couple light coats to seal things up. Shouldn't take much material to fill and cover the pinholes. Or just leave it, it doesn't look like a huge deal. Thanks. I think it's probably wise for me to leave it! I can foresee many things going wrong haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SIMpleONe89 Posted July 18, 2016 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 Wow it has almost been a month since I buffed it out. I was working on the bass and was also waiting for a hard case but thanks to Auspost that hard case is lost and I don't know where it is. I was holding out for the hard case before assembling but enough was enough so I bought a gig bag locally instead. I think I have too many hard cases anyway haha. Of course I'll be getting a refund. So I hereby present to you, my second build. I will take better pictures with my DSLR on a better day of course. I just spent the last 2 days trying to wire it together, only to find out the problem was with the pot, not my wiring! Specs: Hardware: Gotoh SG318 tuning machines Kluson modern string retainer Wilkinson 5+1 contemporary tremolo Electronics: Seymour Duncan JB (trembucker) in the bridge Seymour Duncan Jazz in the neck 5 way super switch wiring: 1. bridge, 2. bridge (north) + neck (south), 3. bridge + neck, 4. neck (north) + bridge (south), 5. neck 500K audio Push pull volume pot, with a blower switch to bypass all electronics and send the bridge pickup straight to the output jack, plus treble bleed mod. 500K audio tone pot with Fender's grease bucket tone circuit. Sorry for the blur pics. Will take better ones soon. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 That is really very nice indeed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMpleONe89 Posted July 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 34 minutes ago, Andyjr1515 said: That is really very nice indeed Thanks! I'm glad it's finally done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMpleONe89 Posted July 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2016 Ok some nicer pics as promised. It wasn't a sunny day so I had to make do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SIMpleONe89 Posted July 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2016 I apologise for so many photos of the top - it's just too pretty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psikoT Posted July 21, 2016 Report Share Posted July 21, 2016 That's indeed a very nice top, and the rest of the guitar is very nice too, congratulations! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted July 21, 2016 Report Share Posted July 21, 2016 Very nicely done 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMpleONe89 Posted July 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 Here's a jam showcasing the clean, OD and dirty tones. Man this guitar sounds great! Apologies for the out of tune bends. I used 10s on this and I'm not used to it yet! Also sorry for the out of focused camera. I fixed this in the later demo videos to come. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zack Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 Very tasty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMpleONe89 Posted July 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Thanks Zack. Here's a more comprehensive demo of the different possible tones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 That is one to be proud of for sure! There is an eye staring out of the center diamond of your twelfth fret inlay. I'm pretty sure it is watching me. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMpleONe89 Posted July 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 7 hours ago, ScottR said: That is one to be proud of for sure! There is an eye staring out of the center diamond of your twelfth fret inlay. I'm pretty sure it is watching me. SR Thanks! I've not noticed it till now! Now it's watching me! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 That is as it should be! SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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