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Post by thetragichero on May 19, 2020 15:55:37 GMT -5
i don't know why but i had a feeling this was going to happen  thankfully my plan is to do a black-to-blue burst so filling this with sawdust and wood glue and then artfully spraying should hide my boo boo |
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Post by thetragichero on May 19, 2020 17:14:58 GMT -5
this is both dust from the sander and shavings from the floor  mock up with pickups in  using those paper labels as a barrier for the repair. whatever doesn't come off I'll hit when i go to sand smooth |
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Post by thetragichero on May 21, 2020 10:14:27 GMT -5
okay repair appears just as strong as surrounding wood time to finish sand and dye  lesson learned: my largest forstner bit, which feels dull, stays in the boss until i either figure out how to sharpen it or throw it in the scrap metal bucket |
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Post by blademaster2 on May 22, 2020 7:14:54 GMT -5
Oh man! That has got to hurt after all of the careful work you did. I feel your pain.
Needless to say you are going to use an opaque finish, which I hope was your plan all along.
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Post by thetragichero on May 23, 2020 0:51:14 GMT -5
cascading failures led me to basically stripping the body. of course i ran out of blue dye. what's a boy to do?  i did not run out of promotional pens from various businesses. so i mixed in into some denatured alcohol and brushed it on. bad picture but it's pretty friggin blue |
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Post by blademaster2 on May 23, 2020 5:10:21 GMT -5
Well that is not bad at all - still such a shame about the bust-through.
[Incidentally, your tiles are the exact same as my home had, so I gather your house was built in the 1950s?]
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Post by thetragichero on May 23, 2020 12:51:03 GMT -5
52 or 56
also when replacing the floor and some other tiles that chipped out i went on a mission to find rounded tiles to replace. since they don't make em much anymore i had to go with a different color and suckers were expensive
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Post by thetragichero on May 30, 2020 1:18:07 GMT -5
well i was all excited to at least start working this tonight only to discover my neck pickup has multiple (that i have discovered so far) broken coils. unwound a ton of wire until it disappeared so maybe I'll use it as a super expensive antenna and use some of these aa5 tubes to make a radio... aggravating as hell  |
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Post by blademaster2 on May 30, 2020 22:24:29 GMT -5
Looking terrific. Nice luster on the finish, too.
Looking forward to seeing the completed item.
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Post by thetragichero on May 30, 2020 23:38:57 GMT -5
so i found the first issue with building 1 1/2" thick bodies and that is that the cavity is too shallow for my 5 way super switch so it's a 3-way with a push/pull for series connection overriding the 3 way (this is how my #1 strat is setup as well, although that is volume tone (for selector) tone (for series)... this I'm thinking volume neck (and series tone) bridge tone... will have to do some figuring but that's part of the fun!)  |
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Post by thetragichero on May 31, 2020 0:42:53 GMT -5
decided on a toggle switch instead. I've really been turned off push/pulls  |
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Post by thetragichero on Jun 1, 2020 11:26:24 GMT -5
wired up as much as i can without a neck pickup (pickup sent for rewind it expected to land in new york Wednesday, ordered a fender Texas special tele pickup that's supposed to be here Wednesday in the interim) started on a bass build. all i had to purchase was an eb0-style mudbucker for the neck (which i will try some magnet swaps and series/parallel wiring to maybe coax some character or if it). had the bridge, bridge pickup, neck and tuners (although the neck had a twist which made it difficult to play after i ripped out the frets so it's currently clamped to a 4x4 post to try to straighten it)  going to try a ceruse finish. black dye with the grain highlighted by bright green. will make the face of the headstock green to match |
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Post by thetragichero on Jun 1, 2020 19:29:59 GMT -5
too dark to continue but so far the shaping is moving along  |
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Post by thetragichero on Jun 9, 2020 19:09:33 GMT -5
rough shaping is done. routing for pickups and neck pocket. then forearm contour, tummy contour, and shaping "horn" on the neck pocket  |
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Post by thetragichero on Jun 17, 2020 23:55:20 GMT -5
finished the rhino horn. need to do tummy contour, clean up the neck pocket, then start drilling for controls  |
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Post by unreg on Oct 30, 2020 17:45:19 GMT -5
love your blue color thetragichero! You mixed ballpoint pens with denatured alcohol! That’s the coolest thing ever!  Nice problem solving! Would like to see the finished blue too.  |
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Post by darrenvox on Nov 7, 2020 9:01:06 GMT -5
wow well done!!
everyone seems to like this
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Post by thetragichero on Oct 30, 2021 17:02:27 GMT -5
 okay back on this bass. flame maple veneer on both sides of body and headstock. probably can't see it very well but died purple and sanded back. used flat black spray paint for the edges of the burst (one application instead of 50000 with black dye added to the poly). probably a little too heavy around pickups but that's okay. local big box store doesn't have the Watergate waterbased varathane i use so I'll have to take a trip to next closest one |
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Post by frets on Oct 31, 2021 13:55:23 GMT -5
Trag,
I really like how it turned out around the pickups, etc. It looks real ‘70’s. I still want that neck😺.
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Post by darrenvox on Nov 1, 2021 17:18:17 GMT -5
looking good
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Nice problem solving! Would like to see the finished blue too. 
