I didn't think I'd stick with the blogging of this thing that long! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel ... I just hope it's not a freight train coming my way! (I will buy a pint for anyone who comments the source of that! Honestly. If you don't live where I can do so, I will PayPal you the money for a drink. No BS! :) )
So, what's going on then. My trials with my old Warlock have told me a thing or two. I obviously need some more time to work out the wet sanding finish ... and that's fine. That's why I did it.
I was ready to lacquer the twelve string neck, so I decided to go ahead with that. I was re-finishing the head-stock of my Workhorse Warlock at the same time, but that's for a different post.
Propped up and ready to go :)
(Actually, this was after coating, but I put it here because I didn't have a "before" pic ;) )
What happened next? Well, at first I was pissed! Then when I figured it out I was even more pissed.
I was supposed to leave at a minimum 24 hours between painting and lacquering, so I gave myself a minimum of 48 hours. I forgot that I gave a very quick touch-up spray to two parts of the 12-string neck. The end result? The frak-up mentioned in the title (A pint, as mentioned above, is also available for the source of this one. Again, no BS ;) ).
I hit about a 22 hour mark from painting and the result should have been expected. The lacquer hit the paint and reacted.
It's only a small point, on the neck, and could be ignored ..... but I can't ignore it. So now I need to wait a week for the lacquer I've used to "settle" so I can rub it down, re-paint, and re-lacquer. Not a big deal, but an un-needed pain in my ass.
That's the twelve string neck done for now. The six string neck had an imperfection (drip) that needed seeing to so there's no pics at this stage. It had a touch up spray at the time of doing the body.
THAT leads me seamlessly into the body part of this bit.
I decided that I wanted a THICK coat or two on the front of the body of my build. I wasn't going to get that with the body hung or standing. For this reason I decided to lay the body flat on it's back and put a good coat or two on the front and sides is this position.
So, I propped up the body flat and did two coats. Here's the end result of the first coat. (There are pics with flash and on ISO (low light) settings)
Well, the end result? I'm very hopeful of this looking STUNNING! There will be work needed on components and whatever to make it great, but it will be a good guitar and better than the value of it's parts....I hope :)
I didn't realise just how much the lacquer makes a difference to the look of the colour. Bearing in mind that there has only been one thin coat added here. I tried to take some different pictures to get a good comparison, but as I mentioned above I just can't get pics I'm really happy with. If any photographers have and advice, drop me a mail :)
To finish off (no pun intended) some shots of the dried thick front coat.
Again, a few attempts to put across the colour.
So, I'm going to do two more thick coats on the front and a couple of thinner coats on the back. Luckily for me (and my head and my solvent buzzing pets) a friend has agreed to let me commandeer his his garage for a couple of days so I can hang the body by it's neck holes and do the body lacquering. That means I need to get the painting finished THIS WEEK as I want to have it lacquered, built and ready for wiring the weekend of 14th-27th February. That's right folks! I'll be spending valentines weekend romancing a soldering iron.
Started writing a track to record when the guitar's up and running.
So ... onward and upward.
Oh, and the no BS was BS ... unless you live near me and we can meet for a pint. I won't PayPal cash for one beer ;)
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