snerdsville

Parts are in it now, and the guitar is on the way home with the new owner. He loved it. He came over today and played it for an hour, I played along with my harmonicas, and it was a good day.

No inlays planned, just a simple basic guitar. This my 13th build, I learn something new each time I snoop around here. Inlays will come someday.

I developed an allergy to wood dust recently, Cocobolo being the worst. I get a burning rash in all of the skin areas that fold, eyelids, armpits, crotch behind my ears, and around my neck. The same spots every time. I curb the sawdust with a shop vac attached to the saws, a fan box with a furnace filter that runs all the time I am working, latex gloves all of the time, and a decent dust mask and long sleeve shirts. That is the only way I can do wood work short of taking shots.

Yes, there is a blacked out chamber behind the sound hole, I put masking tape covering the sound hole from the inside, then trimmed the tape to the edge of the fish hook, before gluing the top on. I will take some lacquer thinner in a syringe and flood the sound hole to soften the tape and pull it out through the hole with tweezers when done finishing and buffing.

I apologize up front that I am not a regular here, mainly a random lurker and I do enjoy everything I have learned here, you guys rock!

I lost most of the start up photos of this build when they were mistakenly deleted out of my camera. So I will pick up with what photos I have. This guitar is for a friend that requested me build him one with his idea of a Browntrout skin pattern. He and I have a mutual friend that is a world renown fish taxidermist that donated his talent to paint the pattern. Due to time schedules and commitments, our friend had just enough time to paint and seal. I get to do the final gloss. So this is where I am in the project.

The body is Alder with a thin Poplar top. The body is semi hollow with a fish hook sound hole. I purchased a Mighty Mite Gibson style neck. I wanted to try the Stu Mac Parson Street Humbuckers, so that is what will be installed. And going with chrome hardware. The autographed back side has the name of our famous friend Rick Krain of Anglers Artistry (and don't dare ask him to paint you one, because he won't! )

Feel free to beat me up or boost me up, your choice.

In the raw

in the prime

back side

Top

TAH-DAH!!! The sanding worked out super well. Thank you for the tip.

Thanks for the reply, yikes, I will have to finesse it a little as not to sand off the decal. I'll try that.

This is my first try at a head stock decal, it is a black head stock and I am using Stew Mac rattle can lacquer. I have applied six coats of lacquer over the decal, and the edge keeps showing through, I understand how this happens, and am assuming that I need to hold a shield or something over the decal and build the lacquer up to the level of the decal? Any tips would be appreciated, or any links in the archive here would help, I did some looking back a dozen pages for some tips, thought I'd ask to save some time, thanks.

My first thought was Vox when I saw the shape,, really!.

I have been watching this portable planer for a few months,, just waiting for the right time to pull the trigger,,, when the Jeep and Van stop nickle and dime'ing me.

http://www.grizzly.com/products/12-1-2-Planer/G0505

Laminate over the refrigerator art.