Yamaha SG-3 tear-down and restoration
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Re: Yamaha SG-3 tear-down and restoration
Lovely job, as usual.
Just to echo everyone else's sentiments, the best of luck with your surgery.
Just to echo everyone else's sentiments, the best of luck with your surgery.
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Re: Yamaha SG-3 tear-down and restoration
Hey Ben, like everyone else here hope all goes well with surgery. Did not realise this was on the cards when I saw you and you fixed up the Buickmaster... enjoying playing that again. Take care of that skilled hand man!
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Love it so far!
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dude... any updated on yer health?
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Yeah, I'm ok, Pat, thanks - had a very serious cancer scare after an MRI scan on a strawberry-sized lump in between my little and ring fingers and out onto my palm. Was diagnosed as a soft-tissue sarcoma, but biopsy results came back with something unexpected and very rare, but not life-threatening. Will still need surgery etc., but won't know much more 'til next week.Pacafeliz wrote:dude... any updated on yer health?
Apart from that, I have a shed-load of pics to update on this...
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Ben, great to hear that it is better news, and crossing all fingers and toes that the news keeps improving.theworkoffire wrote:Yeah, I'm ok, Pat, thanks - had a very serious cancer scare after an MRI scan on a strawberry-sized lump in between my little and ring fingers and out onto my palm. Was diagnosed as a soft-tissue sarcoma, but biopsy results came back with something unexpected and very rare, but not life-threatening. Will still need surgery etc., but won't know much more 'til next week.Pacafeliz wrote:dude... any updated on yer health?
Apart from that, I have a shed-load of pics to update on this...
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Re: Yamaha SG-3 tear-down and restoration
+1 - sending good thoughts your way Benjimboyogi wrote:Ben, great to hear that it is better news, and crossing all fingers and toes that the news keeps improving.theworkoffire wrote:Yeah, I'm ok, Pat, thanks - had a very serious cancer scare after an MRI scan on a strawberry-sized lump in between my little and ring fingers and out onto my palm. Was diagnosed as a soft-tissue sarcoma, but biopsy results came back with something unexpected and very rare, but not life-threatening. Will still need surgery etc., but won't know much more 'til next week.Pacafeliz wrote:dude... any updated on yer health?
Apart from that, I have a shed-load of pics to update on this...
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i love delay SO much ...that i procrastinate all the time.
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Terrific news, Ben. Thanks for the update, and stay well!
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Go Ben. So many sick guitars in this world need your help.
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Still sorry to hear about the need for surgery. Best of luck and get well soon!
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Re: Yamaha SG-3 tear-down and restoration
Ok - whole heap of pics of where this is up to now.
Pressing in the frets:
Filling the ends of the slots with superglue and rosewood:
Filing the ends down:
I'm not sure I could have been any less consistent with the pressing, but I wanted them quite low anyway - here leveled prior to crowning and polishing:
Ok - enough of the neck...this is the state of the back of the guard...
...and the front:
And the pickup covers are super-gnarly:
Too gnarly for me...so this is the complete antithesis of the usual coffee/Guinness/rat's piss/bag of spanners relic chicanery.
I started on the single pickup cover with a toothbrush and T-Cut, scouring pads, very fine wet&dry paper and eventually my buffer wheel:
That worked fine, but I couldn't think how to do it on the double cover without destroying the Yamaha logo. This was as far as I got before I had to stop:
Then I stumbled across a whole bunch of vintage PC freaks who found a way to reverse UV damage to old keyboards - the trick is a very strong clothing stain-remover powder mix, counter-intuitively left in direct sunlight for a few days:
Result!
The pickups were particularly nasty:
Complete with maggot...
I gave all the steel hardware an electrolysis bath to remove all the rust:
And buffed the knobs!
Shiny box of bits:
And now the body's freshly primed. I have a couple of days to try to get some pearl on this - I have one random rattlecan of pearl white I picked up on the cheap from Rothko&Frost, but I'm going to try to do this manually with some slightly tinted oly white and pearl powder:
Pressing in the frets:
Filling the ends of the slots with superglue and rosewood:
Filing the ends down:
I'm not sure I could have been any less consistent with the pressing, but I wanted them quite low anyway - here leveled prior to crowning and polishing:
Ok - enough of the neck...this is the state of the back of the guard...
...and the front:
And the pickup covers are super-gnarly:
Too gnarly for me...so this is the complete antithesis of the usual coffee/Guinness/rat's piss/bag of spanners relic chicanery.
I started on the single pickup cover with a toothbrush and T-Cut, scouring pads, very fine wet&dry paper and eventually my buffer wheel:
That worked fine, but I couldn't think how to do it on the double cover without destroying the Yamaha logo. This was as far as I got before I had to stop:
Then I stumbled across a whole bunch of vintage PC freaks who found a way to reverse UV damage to old keyboards - the trick is a very strong clothing stain-remover powder mix, counter-intuitively left in direct sunlight for a few days:
Result!
The pickups were particularly nasty:
Complete with maggot...
I gave all the steel hardware an electrolysis bath to remove all the rust:
And buffed the knobs!
Shiny box of bits:
And now the body's freshly primed. I have a couple of days to try to get some pearl on this - I have one random rattlecan of pearl white I picked up on the cheap from Rothko&Frost, but I'm going to try to do this manually with some slightly tinted oly white and pearl powder:
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Love the maggot shot & that electrolysis bath looks like lasagne!
Great work on the pickup covers too.
Great work on the pickup covers too.
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the unstoppable work of fire! really enjoying your process, man.
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