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if this is your first try, and really want a PRS, you might want to try using a kit from Grizzly, they have a couple , almost identical PRS kits, with quilted and flamed maple, i sure as hell would love to buy one kit and bring to life one of those guitars:)

http://www.grizzly.com/catalog/2005/luthier/036.cfm?

A Bc rich warlock , mhaogany neck and wings, 5A quilted maple top, bound ebony fretboard with paua abalone diamonds, single bridge humbucker, quad bridge, pointed 6 in line headstock, all chrome hardware, finished in trans cherry, like an SG AND:

A Bc Rich Kerry King Wartribe

Jackson Randy Rhoads RR-1

Hi Carl, i'm in Venezuela and i entered the same problem, i was told i could use PVC pipe cement( though i used cianocrilate i.e. Crazy glue) and what would you be using acetone for? acetone can be found in nail polish remover, but be careful: Binding and acetone isn't a good mix, so be careful, and good luck!

mahogany neck, mahogany body, ebony fretboard, period

although i am by no means an Ibanez fan, I do like how RG's look like ,and this one kicks ass, it needs binding though!

a mahogany neck would ne nice to it, if you want, laminated , mahogany, is IMHO, a the most tonally complete tone wood, along with Korina, i made an all mahogany 5 string bass and it sounds beautiful

OK i sprayed the last coat of cat lac on my guitar on saturday, i bought regular lacquer to spray the final coats, i just see it a bit too yellowish compared to cat lac...Also, there's another guitar i'm gonna paint, and i'll use automotive acrylic paint, will sanding sealer do as a basecoat? too many guitarsm too little painting experience! lol

Hmmm, if i was you, and wanted to use purpleheart exclusively, i'd make a laminate neck, an 8 string neck is way too wide, and you'd want the maximum stability, so i'd either make it a multi ply purpleheart neck, 3 or more pieces, or, i'd use a purpleheart/maple laminate neck, for both stability and aesthetic reasons, good luck man!

sure you can build a solid purpleheart neck, that's what i'm doing with a BC Rich warlock copy i'm building, solid purpleheart neck, mahogany wings, ebony fretboard, also, i read that purpleheart sounds like right in between maple and ebony, and that it makes a great choice for downtuned guitars, i'm gonna tune my warlock to B, so for an 8 string it'll be really good

venezuelan here!

yeah, just what i had thought, i guess i should look in the tutorials on how to do a translucent finish , i changed my mind ( because the natural mahogany look doesn't fit that guitar in my opinion) and wanted to paint it trans green.... pro finishers....i don't know, i don't think car painters here buff cars with stuff like that...but i'll ask, what else do you recommend me to do Drak? ( besides reading more on painting )

Ok I'm finishing a guitar with catalized lacquer, and i think it'll be hard as hell to make it glossy...my question is, could i do a clear coat of polyurethane on top of the catalized lacquer? or both aren't just compatible?

i don't have any power tools , all i have is a dremel, they work great for routing turss rod channels, maybe they don't go deep enough to make pickup and control cavities, but i have used for it, i also use them to cut fretwire, almost everything, very very useful tool

naw, not in 24 hours! hehehe i don't think it'd cure in 24 hours! i'll shoot a good nice coat on tuesday, how many days should i wait for the final sanding/buffout? a week? 2 weeks?

It's gorgeous!!! you should enter it to the GOTM, i love the color, that's the color i want for my Warlock

Clear coating with cat lac.... i have only used cat lac

that bass looks AWESOME!! makes me wanna copy! hehehe, naw it's a very original project, and i sure as hell would have loved to come with that idea first best of lucks man! it's gorgeous

Ok scraped that crap off , and mixed it correctly this time, it worked!! now, i have some glossy areas and some other that look satin, the grain is filled and the surface looks even, no pores. What's next? i was planning to start wet sanding with a 320 grit, wet sanding with soapy water, and then go to 600, 1000, 1500, and 2000, is this the way to go?

I just can't find maple here, but that doesn't mean there are not good looking woods down here in Venezuela, check this PRS copy i'm building, mahogany santos back, black saman top, which happened to have such an interesting figure

man, it's sticky.... it'll be such a NASTY job

where did you buy your neck thru blank? if it was from carvin and stewmac they don't have a neck angle, you can get away with no neck angle if you use a fender style hardtail bridge or a recessed floyd rose, for tune o matics, badass, quadmatics, schaller wraparound , gotoh warparound etc, you need a 3 degrees angle, i suggest, since you don't have experience with neck thrus, to use the hardtail, Neal Moser http://mcs.acidpit.org , www.nealmoser.com sells thru body neck blanks, totally handmade and you can have the option to order a neck with angle, can chose between maple and mahogany necks and can choose your fretboard material

yeah i didn't think it'd be nice I'll use and exacto blade an scrape it off tomorrow, then i will give it another shot with the right proportions it's a shame that coat came out very glossy...and the mahogany just looked gorgeous, thanx man

hmm another question: could i apply that cat-lac and then use this catalized automotive acrylic paint? I heard they couldn't be mixed, but since this isn't regular lacquer...

yeah i think i used way too much catalizer, i will ask tomorrow at the paint store if they have measures, but in any case, i just have to use 20 parts of lacquer and one part of catalizer, one question: since i think this won't cure, what sure i use to remove this coat? thinner? and then i should scrape it off with a blade? or should i sand it off ( if it cures)

hmmm well Drak, it says on the can that it dries to sand in an hour, also it doesn't need any thinner, it's been 4 hours since i gave it the first coat and it's not dry at all, not even to the tact, the proportions on the can for lacquer and catalizer are 20:1, i was using very little lacquer so i applied a little catalizer and i thought i applied too much, because it's better always to add more catalizer than less, also i cleaned my gun and sprayed thinner with it for a good while so i supposse the gun will be clean although i will be more careful for the next coat. The other guitar i'll paint with this cat-lac is another mahogany guitar and the color is light cherry i chose light because that i could control how dark i'd want the color, i want an SG cherry like color, another question( i should have asked this before) cat laq won't crack, right?