mistermikev

well thank u fer sayin' so. it occurs to me after the fact... that sand back is reall not much of an option after natural binding... and drawing the top color off with alcohol like I usually do might be problematic too. Off to research the effects of mineral spirits on nitro laquer!

well... took the tape off... hope to finish the other one with one last coat tonight and take the tape off that as wel... maybe dye this weekend...

well for the record... I think I may have answered my own question last night while I was cleaning up one of these bodies. I noticed the highest concentration of 'stuff' was in the f holes so wondering if perhaps this was all just sitting in there and got blown out when I sprayed. I guess i'll have confirmation the next time I use this sealer.

nothing really out of the ordinary anywhere... out of ideas. on the bright side... it would seem this indicates your neck building is perhaps better, not worse!

jeez, wrong at every turn here. It would seem that more vibration = better... but if it's rattling that much... how does that even happen? Do you use dual action truss? Is your neck carve super thin/thick? is your nut cut with a sharp angle? I'll quit poking but just dumbfounded.

so... admittedly this was my first time spraying anything with my compressor... and perhaps this is not the right product... I bought some mohawk vinyl sealer as it was recommended to me somewhere to work with mohawk nitro lacquer (looking back this seems like an odd combo). I sprayed my two bodies last weekend but out came all these fine hairs and other particulate. I figured i just needed to add a filter to my compressor... so added a spray filter right at the gun and an inline filter 15' back on a line. sm issue! I got enough sealer on that it was fine, and I spent the time and cleaned/sanded the bodies. Then sprayed nitro clear just to see if I'd have the sm issue... no issue whatsoever. Now I'm left scratching my head... it could be that since the sealer sprays sort of opaque... perhaps it just magnifies any debris? Perhaps I sprayed out all the crap (I did clean the gun with some acetone between sealer and clear). what is your guess? I'm afraid to ever use this sealer again because it was such a pain to clean. Would love to hear any/all experiences with it!

jeebus, would not have guessed that. have to wonder what any other guitar looks like comparatively. that one - just looks like an awful lot of movement. My guess is that neck must be ridgid as all f and the vibration has no where to go but the string?

nice work. nice and clean. good job.

wtf? if you had set out to do that... it'd be awesome! perhaps put some massive strings on it? r u using .008's??

"he's just ambitious" very ambitious build, very cool. Instantly had this song in my head lol!

Wow, adding green really brought this to life. Nice call.

wow, once you smoothed it out that figured just jumped out at me. still... i love the look of your guitars when they are in that 'rough carved' state. is really neat.

lovely!!

hubba hubba on that top. lovely build!

true. this is only my second time doing it and what I've learned is that I hope I never have to do it again! seriously tho... maple is really a dif animal than ebony or rosewood -if it chips you are not going to hide it at all. I took great care to not pull any chips out... it was slow and a lot of work. ended up buying those step mac chip preventers and they worked pretty good altho I didn't use the sm puller - just heated em up and worked the edges slowly with a razor blade.

well thank you very much for saying so!! for the record (and those who care about my progress) I was working this morning on putting frets back on as I had a bit of a snafu when leveling and am now back to a point where I can reinstall them. Hope to move to finishing after I finish fret install/leveling.

Right on... relic Tele around b nice for sho.

ok... yeah i'd probably have probs playing those in tune.

"nailed it" hehe, there's some beauty there... but def a bit 'out there'. transparent neck or just... no neck?

yes, quite a departure for you it would seem. it would be hard to pass up such a lovely figured neck... genuinely interested to see you restore it. putting some "right" back into this crazy world. I'd plane it down and toss a nice top on it. I'd find some grain matching wood and see if I could cut plugs to match. Perhaps do a mary k finish so I could hide the match. Either that or a matching laminate for the back side - pancake style. if you haven't played a tele you haven't played guitar IMO and a tele is not a tele without a tele bridge and tele bridge pickup. IOW I'd probably turn it into a nice tele. the thought of turning it into a metal machine or humbucker guitar... well... just reminds me of that scene in 'gran torino' where clint asks the kid not to put a spoiler on it! (hehe - you do you tho) does the neck go flat? (EDIT: read your post - u say it's flat) that would be my first suspect as I wouldn't think anyone in their right mind would turn a neck like that into a chair if it wasn't warped or otherwise problematic. that said... crazier things have been done in the name of art.

congrats brother - well earned.

yeah, lots of butt joints. I would think cutting them at a 45 on chop saw with angle not visible would make shorter work and better joints... but either way gonna be a lot of work. you go!

well I knew kirk/steve vai but learned larry today.

I also save all the plastic bags I get in my truck and use them for garbage bags... and napkins lol... but that's more because I'm utilitarian. hehe.thanks

you caused me to research the origins of larry lalonde... he was in a punk/speed metal band before primus: (just thought you'd find it interesting)