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The best way to fill that crack up would be fill it up with glue using an insulin syringe and needle. The scar would be very fine but you could score it with a scalpel and surface fill with something that will take stain (if it is going to be stained). I love neat repair scars on guitars.

PM before you go, I'm going with you. John will be all NOOOOOOO but we will calm him down with a few beers and he will realise we did it for his own good.

Wow after seeing so many guitars sanded back to reveal crap wood or even plywood it is great to see this one sanded back to reveal such subtle but lovely grain, It will look great in natural, but it wouls also look beautiful stained candy apple red, with a few coats of red lacquer. I'm enjoying this one whichever way it goes.

Yep it took me a few moments to see they were co-joined Great work PT, wanna show us some more pics of those geetars?

Anyone tried one of these?

There's a remote for women, and it has a volume button that turns down, but not up. I was attempting to turn the remote into a guitar, as you referred to the guitar as "curvy like a woman." So I figured the guitar would be a woman with some attitude, as attitude seems to be something everyone wants in their guitar. Since the woman(guitar) has an attitude, a volume knob would be handy so you could turn her down if she (the guitar) was getting too loud/obnoxious (bitchy). I think too much sometimes Wow. Ok back to reality. John, I guess you are need that surface mount pickup soon... You do not need a volume control, just go to the fridge and get a bottle of listening juice

Behringer don't make the VAmpire any more but if you can find one second hand, snap it up Great amp tones, all the effects including harmonizer and a tuner in one box. 45 watts, great for practising in the house but if you hook it up to a 2 x 12 speaker cabinet heaps of power for studio practice. You could easily play smaller gigs with it. But if you want something even gruntier, try out a combo like this And try feeding the modeler/effects unit into the preamp rather than the effects return (yes there is an effects loop in that JCM 800) why miss out on all that 12AX7 goodness? I haven't tried the Vox out, let us know how you go

Great to see so much use of hand tools, craftsmanship.

Good job Tom, that colour does look good on those stripes, that guitar is going to age really nicely.

What a silly question. Y'all would have known about it had I bought a spray setup. Just making sure Silly? You did buy a spray set up and you did tell us all about it

Great looking guitar, the horns look wicked.

Good job, hope you gave the luthier who helped you a great present

Fantastic, love the strat headstock and 22 frets, are you going to put your logo on?

Your project could turn out fantastic. Try a syringe with fine needle to get glue under the fretboard and then clamp it till dry, PVA glue should be fine. Red stain on the body might look cool.

hey padbug, when you go to the hardware store just ask for some PVA wood glue like Selley's Aquadhere interior or get Titebond on line, cheers

On the two times I have done it (TOM. Floyd) I have drawn it out life size on paper and set the bridge so that the strings are 1 mm off the 22nd fret with the bridge fully lowered.

*raises hand* I would be really interested to hear from the folks with fretboard repair experience on this one, I have never repaired a fretboard but I have used 2 part decoupage varnish to fill big dings in finish. I spoon the goop into the crater and cover with greaseproof paper, this contours the top of the repair with the area around it. Here is the technique used on my bass neck. The repair is neat but apparent, probably because of colour changes over time in the old finish and sharp edges on the damage. Whether it would work on your situation Avengers, with smooth transitions and new finish, I don't know. If it did work you could mask off every alternate fret space and do the fix in two goes. Good luck with it

This is looking fantastic, love the shape of the body especially with that headstock.

This just gets better and better.

Fantastic guitar, lots of originality that works.

Alrighty, that qualifies you for the Joyful Panda Brand Whammy club

That looks good, I didn't buy a Floyd Rose, I bought a Floyd Rosd instead

Hey Scott. Its still fading The back is holding up realy well, Including the black. Makes me think there is something up with the maple on the front. But Oddly enough, the sample piece I done up is still strong as ever. Green & black are still good I just dont get it. has me totally stumped. Im gona get some more done on the neck, you know - radius, frets, oil, bla bla bla. Then I rekon I will just strip the body & start over. You said you have a couple of coats of clear on the body to seal it. Do you have any clear on the sample piece? If not, do you suppose therre is some kind of reaction between the dye and the clear that's leaching the color out? SR Na, both totaly the same. Not like they are even different pieces of timber, The sample is an offcut from making the top for this guitar. has me totaly stumped, cant figure it out at all. Yep, Here's my stain try outs, you can easily see the stain fade at the side of the bit that has had some lacquer on it on the red piece. looks like stain doesn't have much resistance to fade until its sealed in.

Yep the Mockingbird kit looks great.

It certainly does, and like something I would want to play, keep going MP, you are going to be working like the clappers to get it finished in time but everything is lining up so batteries to power, turbines to speed