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andyt

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  1. Hopefully, I like the randomness of the paduk wood/sap rather than straight lines I thought the router was the easy way? - took 3 mins freehand routing the heal, then hit it with an anglegrinder Don't know why I made it a 7, I've got loads of 6 string trems but no 7's
  2. Sad half thickness top Got the frets bashed in today OMG its a hardtail I'm going to have to make a nut
  3. Started this one last week before the 'dawn of the new ice age' with a paduk glueup leftover. Long enough for a neckthru with a scarfed headstock. Lime wings, quit top Route down the heal Getting the body contours sanded Made a massive ballsup routing the pickups, due to random different pickup routes on the template started routing inbetween the two, wasn't even in the right place to make it a '3 pickup special' so had to thickness down the quilt top by about half its thickness. Cocobolo board glued on
  4. Random post - I've not tried it on a guitar, but now I've got a spray gun I thought I'd have a go refurbing my dinged up summer wheels last week as they were off the car. Just 2k Matt black, no clear, got half a tin left so might try on a body, The paint went on a lot smoother than the clearcoats I've done so far with the gun.
  5. Thanks all for you comments Johnny, nothing special, just put a bit on at a time & rub it in circular motion inwards to try to blend it
  6. Is a different colour everytime I take a pic of it, phones, cameras etc
  7. Long Neck 7 Couldn't think of a decent name.. wired this one up yesterday 27" Paduk neck Ebony board Ash back Maple top ZR trem & cosmo hardware Chguitars humbuckers build thread http://projectguitar...showtopic=45827 Youtube vid http://youtu.be/iB4C1J-rs_A
  8. Despite sealing the top a bit the 1st clear coats bleed the dye into the maple so scraped the whole thing off and started again,
  9. Had some bolts but they weren't quite long enough to attach anything to without being too close to the top of the guitar. The bandsaw cutoff gave good access to the top + had to spray while it wasn't raining. I like to give the posts some clear overspray it fills the threads up a little and stops the post rattling like using plumbers tape
  10. Sun came out for a couple of hours today so sprayed. Had to think how to hold the guitar when the only thing taped up was the fretboard. Used an offcut or a body blank as a handle screwed into trem cavity.
  11. Gave the back some dye and a rubdown
  12. Cheers all No just rubbed in on, might have to get an airbrush - never tried one Gave the top a quick spray to seal in the maple before I do anything to the back on Fri, then the rain came pouring down so had to stop Thought I'd string it up to check out Forgot how easy ZR's are with the thumbwheel tension
  13. Don't know, I'm thinking trying to match up the neck & the covers..& the back plate might look off Sat around trying to decide what colour & finally just got on with it. Needed to be something to go with the Paduk Brown sandback Coat of orange, then straight on top with yellow More brown for a burst
  14. Fretted today, strung up to test & started roughing out a plate for the headstock not sure about the backplate, might just go plastic to match the ZR cover
  15. Shinto action Not going for a massive no heal cutaway, as the maple top is so thick I'm leaving a bit more wood there. Roughed out neck shape, belly cut and cutaway
  16. Made up the ebony board pearl dots Check pickup wires fit before gluing the board on
  17. ZR route & posts in Jem jack socket control route and a quick test fit
  18. P&W Swirled basswood body 5piece flame maple and wenge neck with flame scarfed headstock & swirled logo Ebony board, Sintoms jumbo fretwire 2k finish body & neck Edge Pro trem, Dimarzio Blaze 2 pickups How it was swirled thread http://projectguitar...=0
  19. put down the pipe Wes! Out of the clamps & trimed it down Thankfully remembered to drill a wiring channel before gluing - 1st neckthru and all. Postie turned up this morning with 2 big bits of ebony, will cut one up and see if I prefer black or brown..
  20. Though I do a test carve to see if I like it, something different from a RGA First time I've ever used a hand plane as it was too big for the planer. 10 mins with an angle grinder, then a rasp for the places it can't quite reach
  21. Glued the ash wings on Then thicknessed down the middle of the neck blank to make room for the top & cut the neck pocket to fit
  22. Cheers for the spalt advice quys, got a load of thin CA coming from ebay, also waiting for some ebony to turn up, found some cocobolo in the shed so cut it up for a 27" board & cut out the maple
  23. Cheers Scott, just what I was looking for, thanks
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