piercefield

Hmmm What are you using for a hardner?

Chrome had a few pits in it i couldnt buff out. But I would have loved to have kept it... looked pretty nice hanging on my wall of guitars...

Figure looks great! I Have never been much on the sharp corners like on the NM... I could always see me about 6 beers deep hitting something and a huge chip cracking lol... Carve is looking very nice!

I could never get my kids interested till they were about 7 or 8... but then they learn so fast, by the time they are 20 they can far surpass the master

That wood looks freaking amazing!!!

I put 10's on it...It had a really small radius on the fretboart too... made it really ackward feeling...

After it was all said and done.. it didn't look to bad... But man that 24 inch scale sucked!

I didn't like it at all!

He wanted the original olympic white, I found some after some research...

Still laughing about the route with a rusty spoon comment... thats hilarious!

Decals under about 20 coats of clear...

doesn't look genuine to me.... routes look like they were done with a rusty spoon! never seen an original decal bubble either. date looks authentic enough but I've seen plenty of fakes that also look authentic. a good relicer can replicate it better than this easily. its probably worth less in its current condition than if it gets a GOOD refinish.

edit; extra pics - you've done a good clean up job but I've also never seen a decal as close to the edge of the headstock

Yeah i think originally it had singles... this was butchered severely!...

The guy said he has had it for about 30 years, got it when he was a kid I think he said.

Had to get out the dent puller for the body....

Trick i learned when i worked in a furniture factory about 8 years ago...

Not bad after the first sweat...

Spent 2 hours with a razor blade scraping the laquer and crud off the neck... cleaned and leveled the frets.

Got the white paint off...

Scuff sanded over the decals ever so lightly... The one gouge was already there...

All in all the neck cleaned up really nice!

Last year a guy asked if i would take a look at a 1965 fender mustang...

He said it had been refinished a few times but the finish was coming off. At first i was like man i don't know... Hate to mess up an old classic.

After I saw it i was like DAMN!

No way i could screw this up any worse. ( he only had 2 conditions. Don't remove the already damaged Fender decal, and don't remove the factory neck date....

It had set so long the strings rust stained the nut. And the frets have turned green... not to mention the huge divots in the frets...

Someone had laquered the rosewood fingerboard

Looks like someone cross sanded

They reassembled while it was wet

The decals he wanted to save were bubbled

Beat the crap out of it...

Looks like they used acrylic wall paint...

And they put that over some type of clear crap I can't identify. it you touched the white it rubbed right off lol...

That looks damn near like one i made from left over scrap maple...

My son was wanting to try and build one so i gave him some scrap maple that was too short for a body, but it was like 19 inches wide but only 14 long.... He glued (2) 1 inch slads together placing the clamps directly on the wood, then cuts it out with a jigsaw... It looked absolutely horrible lol.

After that he was pretty much done with it... It layed around for a couple years and one day I thought I would take a stab at it.. The grain is running sideways and i figured it would sound like crap but amazingly enough it sounds awesome...

Wood burned a rose on it and the vine goes all the way around the back...

Had an old imported china neck blank laying around with vine inlay and matched it up... (use to order those for $35 before i started making my own)

Turns out everyone that sees it is crazy about it...

imperfections just add to the character

Looks like yours is going to be killer!

Led's are prety cool.... tung oil finish really compliments the wood nicely too...

Yes this was done with my soldering iron... May do a lesson or two if there is interest... i have learned some do's and don't when it comes to finishing over a wood burning too... takes awhile to build up the laquer if you want the lines completely flush... and if you like the lines don't use compound its a pain to get out of the lines learned that the hard way....

had a request from a friend to wood burn a photo of his late grandfather, on his late grandfathers guitar, to give to his father for fathers day this year...

I tried to talk him out of it because it was a one shot deal....

Not to mention having to try and spot finish/blend it back in...

He was extremely satisfied...

Picture above is right before i polished it out...

I was there when he gave it to his father... he got choked up and said "thats my daddy right there straight up and down"

sigh of relief lol

thanks! wish i could figure out how to post a short video of it

Might not be a tone wood but found a unique sound that i like....

oak / cedar laminate... semi hollow oak core to reduce the weight....

walnut neck....

hand drawn and wood burnt fret markers....

with an old soldering iron