shinjiakari22

Haha, roger that!

I saded the fret board and now its just awaiting on me to get some money to order a new truss rod and binding.

**edit - Btw (even though this doesnt pertain to finishes) im making a pickgaurd soon, it will be made out of high laminate wood from a local hobby shop. I want to make it ebony to fit the theme of the guitar. Oh and question, how do I go about "ebonizing" a fret board?

Sometimes my impatience can be a good thing

I went ahead and put stain on a small area w/o removing the clear coat on the green...well it turned out exactly how I wanted!

(keep in mind this is before I do fine sanding on the body and all that good stuff.)

(its actually darker then it looks in this last pic...more like the 1st one)

Well, I applied the laquer thinner to a cloth and rubbed away with no result.

Heres the stain and laquer thinner im using.

And heres the edge of the guitar showing what i want to stay on.

BTW. the wood putty in the handle is a stainable kind =)

Ah, much help! Thank you...I shall try this today.

Sorry, this is my first time dealing with any of this stuff so you might have to dumb it down for me haha.

Ill check on the stain I have in the morning, alls i know is that my dad uses it on furniture and such.

Also on the original color on the guitar...should I sand the clear coating off it then stain the brown, then clear coat everything?

Ok well I have an old Ibanez RX series that I cut a handle in etc...

The finish on the body is a teal/forest green wood stain. I sanded down the front and back and left the sides untouched...it looks rather neat. What I would like to do is keep the edges that green stain (partley because im too lazy to sand it) and stain the front and back a brown to get a forest kind of look.

Now on to the question..

How do I go about doing this...do I just sand the clear coat off the edges and be careful about not goin all the way through the green stain then apply the brown and clear coat the whole thing for the finish?

Heres the pics:

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p...859&uid=3151883

Do you think you could send the full body template and such to me at

Shinjiakari22@gmail.com

I think i'm in love with this body styling. Very nice man *clap clap

This wont be bad..I removed all the old binding. The new binding seems pretty simple. Yay

And btw i doubt it would have come out the adjusment hole i had to pry that sucker out to get it.

I beleive this is te rod that fits.

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Truss_rods/Hot..._Truss_Rod.html

Im fixin to go measure it now.

Is there a tutorial anywhere on how to install binding?

Heres the truss rod, well the part that i think is borken. Notice the weld is snapped.

the binding is melted pretty bad...but the fret board is comming up quite nicely, a lot better then planned. Where can I puchase new binding and how would i go about installing it.

BTW, thanks for the tips.

Ok so I started the removal..Everything was goin fine (just a little bit of wood messed up under the begging of the board). But when i was using the Iron to heat the board i used a towel for the first part and all went well. In one of the tutorials it explained i didnt need the towel for dark fret boards. So I tried w/o the towel and now the white plastic trim on the board is melting...How can I replace this?

All this applies to acoustic correct? What about the white plastic trim around the fret board, will that come up with the board? And also...will i need to recoat the edges with clear to make it look new again?

Anyone have a tutorial on how to change out a broken truss rod in an acoustic?

Its an Alvarez AJ60sc

**Also, anyone know where I can purchase a new truss rod?

Glad you said that, knowing me I would have forgotten.

Anyways heres what the collage looks like so far. Im hopping to finish this weekend.

Helllooo??

Should I cut the neck opening to allow the Ibanez RX neck to fit?

The reason i ask is I want to fit a wizard (or rather a nice nect with a black fret board) neck on it...that has a rounded neck joint.

So what your saying is all the old JEM's are square neck joints?

Ok so I want to convert an Ibanez RX into a JEM style guitar. Theres a few issues though.

-The neck join on the RX is square...the JEM is rounded. Can this be modified?

-There is no recess on the neck joint of an RX like this http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/heal.htm

Can that still be done?

Well I received yet another free guitar...its an Ibanex RX series. Seems to be a cheapy but also looks like I could convert it to a JEM.

I already started on the handle.

The only major diff. I see is there is no recess on the back at where the neck joins...and the neck jount is square, not rounded.

Do yall think it would be possible for a full conversion using this body?

My friend gave me an Ibanez RX series neck today and I wann put it on this peavey body. The neck is like 1/4" to wide for the neck opening in the peavy body. Would it be safe for me to cut that 1/4" off the peavy's neck opening?

After much labor...heres the pattern ill be adding pics to.

I had to trace the guitar and scan in the paper...but had to cut the paper up first because it was to big. Then I pieced it back together and went over the lines to make it pretty and digital.

I traced the body on a large piece of paper...Im thinking i can either scan it in pieces (because its too big for the scanner) or head down to Kinkos and have them scan it. After I have a full size scan I can then go clean it up and make it into a digital line drawing and begin pasting pictures on it in photo shop. A little blending, drop shadowing, and burning here and there and it will be ready to be professionally printed and glued on the guitar.

Sanded the paint down today...all except the edges, I ran out of day light and my arms are about to fall off from all the vibration.

The Guitar strip link

*If anyone cares, im the skinny one with the blue hoodie.

Lol, I never thought about using photoshop...even though its sitting on my desktop. Im not sure where I would get a 1:1 template of a Peavey predator plus guitar body (yes its crap but free!)

Is there any specific glue I should use? And also...what kind of clear coats are out there?

1 more thing. I plan on doing the head too (just the front side). Pretty much just to cover up the peavey logo haha. Is there anything i need to know about that area?

Heres the pics of the guitar I'll be using.

The guitar link!

**Edit- What would be the best method of removing the paint/stain...Im thinking im just gonna take the sander to it.