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  1. Maiden69
    All is good! No building yet, too busy at work. Perry, you didn't took any video of that Opeth show?
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    It looks very nice, my only suggestion for next time is to finesse more the carve from the waist down. It looks very nice on the horns, but once you go past the waist it looks as if smooths out like a flat top.
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    WOW Matt is alive!!! Sweet sounding guitar Perry, no wonder Opeth wanted to acquire it! Perfect for their sound and style!
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    Yeah, I can see the difference now. I left mine very pronounced, I do like how your before looks close to mine before
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    I wish you the best right now! Opeth is one of my favorite bands right now along with Trivium. Opeth complexity on their playing is what draw me to them.
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    That top got me fooled from the get go! I thought it was going to be a solid color! Without the clear it looked like a plain old piece of wood. From what I can tell you have been and are very busy lately!
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    Thant carve is coming out very nice! Are you leaving the top flat like it is or rounding it later? I did that on my single cut guitar, I think it gave it more character and separate it from the rest!
  8. Maiden69
    Very nice, an Explorer with the features that I like! TOM string thru, a 24 fret neck. How's the neck joint? What scale Perry?
  9. Maiden69
    That guitar is beautiful, seen it at YouTube! Setting the bar pretty high Perry!
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    Study the grain up close. Replicate it. Credit me We discussed doing a blue candy over the grain, but in the end went with clear only. I'm glad we didn't do it blue now. Very hard to tell from those pics. I thought about a machinist scribe, to get the "hole and edge" from a grain. Anyway, about the finish, I do like it natural, but I can't say that I would love to see some tint on it. Kinda like my old ash guitar. Outstanding as always Perry! !
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    So will you leave it translucent natural or will it take a color coat? Very good work on the "grain matching". Will you be kind enough to post how you managed?
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    Titebond
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    Cool, that fretboard looks very nice, and the body size do balance nicely with the oversize neck!
  14. Maiden69
    Nice, can't wait to see it finished! And what's the "red button of death"like an Afterburner?
  15. Maiden69
    One thing you need to understand before talking about UV is were the guitar will spend his life. I painted my bike helmet with Colortone stain on 2 part DuPont clear. And I have left it in the sun for an entire riding season and there is no fade on the color. BUT, I did the same thing on my tail lights on my car, but with nitro and the things faded to nothing in less than 3 months. Most 2k paint have an UV inhibitor so that it will protect the base coat from discoloration.
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    So why the disclaimer on the Transtint about not using it on 2K. That was my only logic to it. Thanks for clarifying that!
  17. Maiden69
    Remember to check the bridge to neck position. Those Kahlers like the neck pretty tall, if not you will have to shim or give the neck pocket some angle
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    The only thing different, are the labels stuck on the outside of the bottle and StewMac gives some colors a different name. I think that they are not. If they were Transtint will be compatible with 2K paints.
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    That guitar was painted with a Preval can, the finish is so much better than any rattle can I have used! (I have not used the colortone from Stew so I can't comment on those) It is still cheaper than to buy a lot of good cans from Stew. Now I used a small compressor I bought, I think that if I had bought the compressor to begin with, I would had saved a couple of hundreds on cans.
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    Hmm... I'll consider that. Thanks Createx are pretty good too. As far as not having to seal the wood, it depends on the type of wood, Mahogany and woods alike will need to get sealed, maple and alder may be not.
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    Why don't you get the StewMac color tone stain? I used it on my bike helmet with 2K poly and I had no issues with it.
  22. Maiden69
    There is no need to go deep when scalloping. Whats the point? All you need is enough so that your fingertips don't touch the wood when pressing the string. Even by getting jumbo frets you can achieve that and the difference is thous of an inch. I used a Dremel contour sander from 1-12, and a round file with sandpaper for the 12-22.
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    Very nice! I don't like the recess on the toggle, takes away from the flow of the carve (IMO) but like you say about the heel, it is a matter of taste. On mine, I didn't bleach the top. Here is a link to my thread http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.ph...c=27786&hl= This maple was a little yellower than yours, I started doing some test pieces of stain and tinted coats, and I can tell you that the best finished pieces that I got were done with a hybrid approach. Staining the curls, sanding it back to the depth of color you want, sealing that with a few clear coats and shooting tinted clear on top. Somehow it made the grain look deeper. Overall I like your build a lot!
  24. Maiden69
    I just had to google that, a town in Austria, or putting a hat... w t f sorry for my spanglish, fixed!
  25. Maiden69
    No he is not! As you can see I didn't go thru the inlays. Epiphone Classic.
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