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Post by gumbo on Dec 12, 2013 6:31:25 GMT -5
Shoulda, coulda, woulda bought one of these: (eBay# 110765015271) ...30 ft of SCREENED 13-core Roland-style guitar synth cable... Cut one 13-pin plug off , cut what cable you want off and sell the rest and the disconnected plug back to sumgai at a price he can't refuse...
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Post by dannyhill on Dec 15, 2013 18:15:55 GMT -5
Filing, sawing and chiseling...... I think people got out of Alcatraz faster!
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Post by dannyhill on Dec 17, 2013 4:51:55 GMT -5
We're through! Gotta make sure the wires are not damaged and its on to the next job of filling that rogue hole and then feeding the wires through followed by the pickup wires. Need to re-wire the pots first though and the final job will be to re-cover the rogue hole on the back.
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Post by dannyhill on Jan 16, 2014 13:31:02 GMT -5
OK, so this week I have been filling with wood filler and then I tried to tessellate the pieces back into place. They didn't seem to fit into place. Anyway I ended up breaking some pieces to fit and.... So not as neat. With the aid of red and brown felt tipped pens for the 'gaps' and a wet mesh sanding of a thin super glue layer after 3 attempts I got the below: Not brilliant due to different colours, odd forms due to the tessellation and then colouring in in-between. It also looks darker under flash, here under lamp light it looks better, I guess daylight is the best test: I think I need to go back and apply another coat of superglue as the previous one was rubbed so low it I removed it in areas and some areas are pitted, in an attempt to 'tattoo' the area with brown dye rather than strip, colour and then reapply the superglue. Its too large an area and with grained material to ever look remotely ok, but it would be nice to have a similar colour and be level. What do you think? Probably going to just warm up some glue and apply an ultra thin layer of glue and then rub down tomorrow. Maybe touch up the light coloured area with the felt tip before.
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Post by dannyhill on Jan 27, 2014 5:17:36 GMT -5
I re-worked it a few days later and I think without higher skill and better materials it wont get any better unless I get lucky. Well I think it looks less worse now at least ;-)
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Post by ux4484 on Jan 27, 2014 9:36:29 GMT -5
Danny, That looks better, if you're going to keep it, and you're happy... you're done. There are some guys that would eat away at their souls knowing it was there against their leg even though no one could see it. At least you didn't do what this guy did...
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Post by dannyhill on Feb 18, 2014 4:50:00 GMT -5
Thanks UX4484!
I'm fairly happy with it. If it was a 1000 dollar guitar I would get someone to do it or could justify spending a lot more time and buying better materials to do it. At the end of the day if at some point I want to improve on it I can just go back and remove it all and start over. :-)
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