D28 #13 Guitar blog:
Feb 14th 2014
She is all pore filled and prepped ready for spraying
Feb 20th 2014
I have the body sprayed. I still have another day with the neck. After the first day of spraying, I found a small but noticeable area that somehow I had left without zpoxy, a sand through, so it was lighter than it should be. I scraped all of the finish off and have been re-spraying it. Looks good now.
16 coats (leveling at 4, leveling and drop filling at 8 and 12 finished with 4 coats. All sprayed as close to 3-4 mills wet as I could spray.)
The top is 10 coats total (leveling at 4, leveling and drop filling at 8 finished with 2 coats.)
Feb 20th 2014 - Waiting for the finish to cure
I find waiting for the finish to cure the hardest time during a project. I need to wait until Wednesday before I can start to buff out the body and Thursday before I can buff out the neck. Luckily I was able to buff out the head stock veneer as it has been sitting a week.
While waiting I also bolted on the neck to verify that the neck angle was still good. I set the bridge and pick guard on top so I can have a preview.
With Flash
No Flash
The real look is somewhere in between.
Feb 26th 2014 - Waiting for the finish to cure
I have waited long enough I will start sanding and buffing tomorrow. While I waited I did fret the neck, added the position markers and roughed out a nut.
Once buffed out I still need to place the bridge. I waited until the end on this guitar. I will slot the bridge while on the guitar. (living dangerously) I have filled and reslotted a bridge on an older guitar that needed a neck reset.
Feb 27th 2014 - All buffed out
All buffer out, ready to start on the bridge.
Next Page
|