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  1. God I love Wenge. I love how it takes on such a nice shine with fine grits of sandpaper. Looks lovely too...like chocolate. Cracking build so far!
  2. So far so good! Nice woods. I’m interested about something though. If it’s 28 to 26 scale then I imagine that finding a suitable string gauge might be a little bit more involved than it usually is? Because of the different tensions involved. Maybe a custom set?
  3. I can see the gap in the relief now. But it’s like the height of a hair. Like a numpty I think I was measuring it incorrectly. Hopefully a full string change to 12’s will improve things further. Slightly tempted to get these, although maybe they are overkill. Will experiment a bit! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ernie-Ball-Slinky-Nickel-Wound/dp/B0002E1J3Q
  4. Talking of which, I followed Susie years back. Would be cool to see more videos from her. It was/is a cool channel.
  5. Based on my calculations using the stringjoy website, there is an added 27lbs of tension with a set of 12s on there (22.7 scale). This is apparently the same as 11’s on a 25.5 scale. Certainly doesn’t feel like it though! Although I have only changed two of the strings, so judging on the feel of those alone. Anyway, feels a bit more like 9’s to me. But maybe my fingers have got stronger from playing the acoustic for so long. Which skews the feeling somewhat.
  6. I didn’t go ahead with the wacky body shape, but I have made one major change to the look, so it looks different…again I will post up a photo once I get my finishing process sorted. Strung it up recently and it turns out that this guitar really needs quite heavy strings in order to get the low action that I desire. Obviously this has no truss rod, and on top of that is short scale (22.7). So in order to pull the neck in to a tiny bit of relief then a plan was in order. I was disappointed with the “skinny top, heavy bottom” set that I had on there. So I put the E and B string from a 12 gauge set on and it seemed to do the job of letting me lower the action. I’m assuming that it has pulled the neck in to a little bit of relief, although I can’t see any, it must be there. Main thing is, that it plays nicely. It’s not tough to bend on at all, even with this gauge. Although the scalloping obviously helps. I also put in some fall away (first time doing that). It’s amazing how clear the notes sound up on the dusty end. Almost forgot to mention, it’s now 20mm at its thickest point. So still very much waif…but not to the extent where a McDonalds is in order
  7. Looking forward to how this turns out! What a transformation!
  8. I will be honest here and say that part of the thought behind the design, was born from an indecision regarding what to do with the bottom half of the guitar. So I thought “what if I just chop off that section”? The original thought was to use a panel, but whilst thinking of a material and colour scheme that complements and contrasts with the rest of the instrument. That has proved to be a bit of a head scratcher. This particular revision has a somewhat iconic look to me, because of its ‘uniqueness’ (a subjective metric I know). But I fear that the overall look of it is a bit like marmite for many people…you either love it or you hate it! I may spend a bit more time photoshopping and seeing what refinements I can come up with. Failing that I will just continue with the original shape.
  9. Still working on the finishing process! Had quite a mishap recently with some epoxy that I hadn’t mixed correctly. Anyway…Really not sure about this idea that I mocked up in Photoshop. It's weird for sure. I kind of like it…but hmmm…what do you think?
  10. Thanks for the replies guys. I really appreciate it as always! I’ve figured out that part of the issue is simply because I wasn’t getting rid of some of the scratches from previous grits. I also hadn’t properly got rid of a few imperfections in the epoxy. Back to 600 grit and working my way up! Using only wet sanding now, as I have a feeling I was pushing material around that had been in bedded in to the sandpaper and causing the more undesirable type of scratches. Maybe I was using too much pressure, so working on close to zero now. Also, I’m going to do a different sanding direction on each grit now, so I can gauge my progress a lot better.
  11. So…I seem to be getting a gloss now. But I think I might need to get some higher grits than 2500. Maybe I should get something like this? https://www.axminstertools.com/micro-mesh-soft-touch-pad-abrasives-211364?queryID=797b7e222982afa92a144bedc48ebc65 There’s some tiny scratches in there. Will try some machine buffing instead of just doing it by hand like I have been doing, and see how that goes, maybe that might get rid of the micro scratches. Failing that I will try getting the higher grit papers.
  12. Thanks I went up to 2500 grit. I may work on it more to get that shine. Or I may keep it a satin. I seem to have a huge problem getting rid of scratches though, still lots of tiny little marks if you look really closely…it’s the bane of my life Interestingly, in the past I’ve noticed that fine wire wool does not show up marks in the same way that sandpaper does.
  13. Turns out that I did indeed need to level etc, and a few anomalies did occur. Probably the environment I was working in. Anyway, went through all the sandpaper grades and it refuses to fully gloss…maybe the powers that be are telling me to keep it that way. Or maybe I need to work on my buffing I think this requires a scratchplate. It’s a bit bare without I think. Mocked up a quick idea with some paper.
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