Building a twin neck guitar - Part 11: Odds n' Sods ... and a major rage!

So, this has some good and bad things. Positives and negatives. I'm in a rage right now! Just a rage!

Here's the good stuff first.

I fixed the problem on the 12-string neck paint job after rubbing down the lacquer layer and re-painting. I had a small problem with the paint, I assume, reacting with the flakes of lacquer from the rub down. Another layer of paint  fixed that.

I was about to lacquer the 6-string neck when it fell over. This chipped the paint on the point on the head-stock. Unfortunately, I didn't get a pic of it before I touched it up. This picture is actually from after the touch up! Damn. I need to re-touch this again. I know it's a really small chip and would be barely noticeable, but it annoys me that much! It's like a dead pixel, but worse in my head.

I did think about just going ahead an ignoring the lack of colour there.... but I couldn't do it.

In terms of the necks, what I did do was bring it to what I wanted this build to be. It's something that Aidan and I can do together ( to a point. He won't be soldering anything) and be something that is for us. So, here's what I did. With paint dry, things ready to finish ( and with a test lacquer spray before re-doing the 12-string ), I got my red Sharpie. Aidan has written his name (and HE did it) on the back of the 6-string head-stock, and I did mine of the 12-string.

I decided to test stuff on my BC Rich Warlock. The reason? It's the oldest and cheapest of my guitars. Despite the sentimental value it made the most sense.

I was going to strip it down, re-do the finish and re-do the wiring. Literally, in terms of the wiring, I was going to strip all the soldering and do them from scratch.

I decided to just use this as practice as my soldering is shit! :0)

Here's the back before I did anything. The "after" pictures were corrupt, and after tonight I can't be arsed re-taking them now. Suffice to say, the after pictures weren't great. It didn't work as I expected. I'll put pics up another time.

I had hoped to renew the back, but it turned out to be a testing spot.

Due to the failure of the back I decided to not do the front of the guitar. I decided just take a remedial approach to the front. After a simple polish and buff the front of the stripped guitar looks STUNNING! I forgot how great this guitar could look.

In the back of this guitar I decided to practice and refine my soldering. I'm not going to commentate it all, but here's what I did. I removed all the current solder and re-do it. This is way better than I used to be! :) I didn't takes pic before ... sorry.

So .. what had me in a rage?! Paint. That's all, paint!

Here's the back of the guitar after I put the "last" coat on. Now, let's be clear, I don't care how the back looks as I will be using that as a testing ground.

The problem? The front (While taking pictures of the back ) got imprinted by the towel the body was rested on. ****!!!! I'm so annoyed. I'd left it more than two days to make sure it was ready.

So ... here's my Facebook comment about these pictures (after I'd seen the body) ....

"DAMMIT! ****! ****! ****! FRAK! ... I'm running out of expletives!I'm going to have to put ANOTHER coat of paint on the front of my guitar build. THREE days I left it since it's last coat and it STILL took an imprint of what it was resting on while taking pics of the back I'd just done. ****! ****! ****! ****!"

So yeah. Little things. I'm glad Aidan got his name on "his neck" and the necks are ready (apart from a chip to fix again) to get lacquered.

It just means I might have to re-do my lacquering plans for the body.

..... I'm going to bed.

Oh ... here's the wiring diagram I'm using. Why not? At least it's positive.