avengers63
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Considering how goof the Soapbox sounds, I'm contemplating getting a piece of molding-grade pine and making a flat-top Mockingbird body from it and covering the top with birdseye maple veneer.
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HEATING the linseed oil. There's a logical thought. I gotta try that one out. It seems reasonable that it should penetrate deeper if it's heated. Considering that I oil all of my fretboards and I've taken to oiling the necks whenever possible...
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I know exactly what colors mix to make turquoise. I have a heavy art background. As I already said, I did a bunch of experimenting with mixing blue & green dyes. I could get a dark teal - in the sea green range - but not turquoise. Thinning the dye to get a lighter shade didn't do the trick, and there is no white dye to use, so none of my experiments gave me the result I wanted.
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I just made a bunch of calls. I couldn't do it over the weekend because the streets roll up here on Friday night. Anyway, there's a place that doesn't carry it, but can at least order it! I'll be placing the order tomorrow morning, and it should come in on Friday. -giggidy!-
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I just made a bunch of calls. I couldn't do it over the weekend because the streets roll up here on Friday night. Anyway, there's a place that doesn't carry it, but can at least order it! I'll be placing the order tomorrow morning, and it should come in on Friday. -giggidy!-
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I LOVE it when they quack like a duck. Both the blade singles and the mini-humbuckers you made have a lot of quack in them, and I just eat it up.
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That's what I was wanting to do. I checked the websites for Ace & JoAnn's for Tints-All, and neither carry it locally. So, with the local unavailability of alternatives, plans change. I can still have the color I wanted, I just can't do it exactly the way I wanted to. I'm over it.
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Woodcraft carries TransFast dye in turquoise. It's almost an hour from my house. So... the option is either drive an hour each way to spend $11 as well as the gas, or spend $7 in shipping. Methinks the shipping is a better option.
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If you don't want the old ones..... I'm sure I could balance them out with a sapele bodied something.
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Even in St. Louis? Kansas City has at least a couple of good ones, so I always assume STL has more. I live 20 minutes East of the Mississippi, so the StL city limits is 20 minutes away, but that's downtown in the business district. It'd be more like 40+ minutes to anywhere that might carry those sorts of stores. The only decent lumber yard is an hour away. So yes, I'm sure there are a number of art/paint supply houses that might carry it, but they're not within a driving range that would allow me to just "pop in after work". I looked around on-line for Tints-All, and found it in Ace Hardware. We have a few of them around here, as well as JoAnn fabrics, so there are still a couple more options. In the meantime, I was experimenting with the dyes I have, but I can't get to a good turquoise. I can get a dark teal, but I want it brighter than that.
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Oh, he'd kick my a$$ every time. No contest. And I already lost with this one.
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But mine are home-made, and match the woods in both the neck and the body.
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I had some of that action going on too. Still copying me I see. The difference is that I MADE my purflings. I suppose I should be taking this all as a compliment.
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Whaddyall have against my roundover bits and shellac? They're both dang useful! Unless it's all just a convenient excuse to come over and have an impromptu get-together.
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Yep. Might be difficult as most of the carve has been shaped already. I probably won't be able to take a real good look at what can be done until Monday or Tuesday. In hindsight, the top is too thick. I went for a 7/8" base and a 7/8" top, which was way too much. A 1/2" top would have been MORE than enough. Thanks, guys!
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We DO have a few fabric stores. Worth a shot!
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Please elaborate.
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Michelob Ultra, please. Or just spike my tea with sweet tea flavored vodka. The more I look at this thing, the less I like it. The carve is too deep. It's too late to be able to fix it though because the control cavity has been routed. Taking the top down would blow through the cavity in 1/4". Help?
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The closest thing I have to an art house in realistic driving range is Michael's & Hobby Lobby. Nobody in their right mind would really call them an "artist supply house". We used to have a Dik-Blik, but they moved away 10 years ago. I tried mixing the dye into the mineral spirits, then adding that to the linseed oil. The result was almost the EXACT same as putting it directly into the oil.
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I agree that it's a bit fat & pregnant right now. Maybe I'll take the top down a bit.
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Yea. Mis-spell. It's only a 1/4" on the back. I know from the other one I made that the axe head jabs you in the sternum if it's not softened up. Plus, I like a rounded corner.
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COPYCAT!!!! ONE-UPPER!!!! :D
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Nope! Take the hardware off and sell it on eBay. I've had pretty good luck setting the opening bid at the cost of materials, so long as I explain in the details exactly what the actual cost is.
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Carmel pearl binding with an extra b/w/b inside strip. God bless eBay. I'm most likely going to ebonize the sapele. Black & canary will look great together. The carmel accent in the binding will fit right in.
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Working on this one pretty hard today.
