What's on your workbench right now?
- Rgand
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
That looks really good. I like the black. Even if it is slightly off-black, it'll look outstanding. Nice choice.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
. . . OK it just left the work bench . . .
My boy wanted a sword . . . OK it's more a gladius . . . turns out that guitar making is a transferrable skill . . . .
My boy wanted a sword . . . OK it's more a gladius . . . turns out that guitar making is a transferrable skill . . . .
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
After the three applications of black dye, I applied Old Masters Spanish Oak stain. This is a deep black stain and gets into all the pores that the dye doesn't work on. It's really starting to look special now.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
That black is nice and rich. I've often entertained making a body like that with a deep gloss finish and still allowing the grain to show. Looks great already.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
This one just left my bench
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
Beautiful, Toots. The pickguard and fretboard are almost a perfect match.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
nice Bison inspiration Toots !
a neck
cause one of my guitar is neckless
(i stole it for my rehearsal jazz )the back one
a neck
cause one of my guitar is neckless
(i stole it for my rehearsal jazz )the back one
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
Watching the corners turn corners
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
That's awesome! Gladius is my favorite sword size. I'm 5'5" and love short swords. Back in December, I ordered a short (24") lightsaber blade with my short-handled lightsaber hilt from Ultrasabers.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
Ok, I'll post a separate thread.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
It's now back on the guitar . . . and I still have to make 2 modifications but I'm DONE with it for now (took 2 solid days of work from bare to finished BTW). The good news is that the coil selection on the pRails works flawlessly now (yes the problem was a wiring fault in the neck switches which caused a intermittent ground fault ... and a scratchy pickup). The bad news is that I'll have to go in at least one more time to fix the tone part of the circuit . . . there is seemingly a (intermittent . . . again) bad switch and I have to figure out why it isn't behaving apart from that . . . OH . . . and I 'lost' the trim pot (I'll likely find it when cleaning up my workbench ) for the treble bleed so that has to be 'fixed' as well . . . .
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Sorry double post for some weird reason . . . deleted
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
i am thinking to black matching headstock and use it with my black jazzy in fact
i have binding for but i am lazy to put one and dot only are cool to (and before 1965 vintage correct )
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
Here is the body with the first few coats of tru oil:
Unfortunately, as I continued to apply tru oil and the grain began to fill in, it started to disappear.
If, after the first few coats, I had applied a grain filler, I would have been good.
Or if I had used a stronger top coat that wouldn't need as many layers, that would have been good too.
But, I hadn't done those things and I couldn't live with the grain disappearing. So I sanded the entire thing back.
At that point the grain was pretty well filled with black, so I knew I needed to change direction.
I have a pile of artist oil paint leftover from a college oil painting class, so I decided to use some as a wipe on color coat. I used a combination of Pthalo Green and Burnt Umber to get a dark green color inspired by the Thurston Moore signature Jazzmaster. I'll let this cure for a few days, then proceed with the tru oil again.
I'll try the all black thing again another time. Using my new knowledge, that one will turn out fantastic.
Unfortunately, as I continued to apply tru oil and the grain began to fill in, it started to disappear.
If, after the first few coats, I had applied a grain filler, I would have been good.
Or if I had used a stronger top coat that wouldn't need as many layers, that would have been good too.
But, I hadn't done those things and I couldn't live with the grain disappearing. So I sanded the entire thing back.
At that point the grain was pretty well filled with black, so I knew I needed to change direction.
I have a pile of artist oil paint leftover from a college oil painting class, so I decided to use some as a wipe on color coat. I used a combination of Pthalo Green and Burnt Umber to get a dark green color inspired by the Thurston Moore signature Jazzmaster. I'll let this cure for a few days, then proceed with the tru oil again.
I'll try the all black thing again another time. Using my new knowledge, that one will turn out fantastic.
Doug
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
Ludo or Ludon't - there is no Lutry !
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