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... new week starts yay

Let´s fret some!!!

 

Fender oldschool Strat like frets

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small ones rather

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are my slots deep enough... i need like 2mm

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dedicated fret slotting saw

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cut his hand off!

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and the other one!!! and the leg!!!

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Hah..... now to something i have been soooooo waiting for 😄

I think before fretting is the best timepoint to oild it down once, ain´t it 😉

let´s go.. I decided to use the fancy stuff for first layer... i hope it doesn´t add too much own-color

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looks damn transparent on the paper

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yay, just one glimpse

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time to use that wonderful tool for the first time

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supeglue or standard glue.... i had decided superglue already but ultra-last minute switched to standard wood glue for it might be a lot easier in the re-fret process....... will i regret that????

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nice

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the upcoming moment of fear

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halfway...

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and it´s in and good

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working from both sides... to devide the tension... probably totally unneccesary

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ahhh... fine!

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that´s fun work

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approaching XII

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and imprison him!

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Yeah i like that a lot... better than expected

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shorten those ends

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filing those ends down

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What a good flowing afternoon!
This is how it should have ended!

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On 11/8/2016 at 8:32 PM, Vodka said:

I hated Royal Republic prev. time. I hate it this time too.

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... it did not however.....

when i was filing down the sides i noticed that some of the frets were moving. Not much, but noticeable and thats a NONONONONO!!!!!! Yes - potentially the woodglue could have fixed that when cured, but thats way too much risk on a point where we are handling playability. Just a NONO!! So...

 

first i noticed that only at fret V - so i removed it, cleanded the slot, used medium visc. super glue, hammered it in and just to make sure clamped it down properly...

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.... of course in the curing time i couldn´t stop thinking and the thought that it´s unoptimal kept pushing my stomach harder and harder.... so i went down and started testing really intense on all the frets, and i found a 2nd one and a 3rd one where my pressure resulted in .... felt movement. Nothing to be seen and captured on a pic, but noticeable for sure...

 

So.... i started removing all frets of course...
I got lucky cause i only had one little tear-out spot and even that is mini and would be hidden almost completely or completely under the fret, and in no way a optical issue, i am gonna fix it with sawdust and glue i think before refretting.

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and to prepare the slots - even better that time with a small triangular file so less breakout at refrets

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Good thing ... i am very skilled in fretjobs by now i think, at least i am very satisfied with the results but i was scared of having to do or doing refrets. I´m not no more.

 

it was sunday - so no hammering ...

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.... but will today or tomorrow....

 

In fact that´s my first major drawback and that´s good. I´m a problem solver, i like to quickly develop sollutions and learn from processes. It would be half the fun if it just went too smooth all the way, plus it makes aware to not develop sloppiness.

Life is cool. Rock!

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On 11/8/2016 at 8:32 PM, Vodka said:

I hated Royal Republic prev. time. I hate it this time too.

UPD: OK. I hate every song. I guess I need to stop.

 

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It was tuesday - so hammering...

 

 

starting on the 12th fret... that one was extremely problematic cause i had fixed the one end already... but managed to get it loose without damage....
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fixed a few with superglue and hammer and just to make sure... i clamped them down while fixing from the other side

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that went very smooth and the frets instantly built a unionlike state with the board

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the last hammer to go down

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i was afraid that the removal would have destroyed the frets, but all seems like perfectly in place...

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looks good to me... let´s have a few closer looks

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oh yes!

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clamping also the other side while haveing to fetch my boy from school

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back and... fileways

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that old file is perfect for the job, i shall keep that in mind

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let me dare some.... dead straight, yeah... of course i shall use a fretrocker of some sort for details, but it is not getting any better

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also on the frontside

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finishing that filing till i am leveled with the board and then like 60 degree angle

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fine.

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On 11/8/2016 at 8:32 PM, Vodka said:

I hated Royal Republic prev. time. I hate it this time too.

UPD: OK. I hate every song. I guess I need to stop.

 

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Very nice. It all worked out in the end. I admire your patience to back track and do it right. I've always used super glue to stabilize the frets, and have always been tempted by wood glue. Did you give it enough time to cure? Titebond gets really hard when dry. I've heard of people using epoxi resin too...  The important thing is that that fretboard is looking really great. Love the grain on the wood. Well done!!!

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On 10/16/2021 at 3:26 AM, GoatHerd said:

Very nice. It all worked out in the end. I admire your patience to back track and do it right. I've always used super glue to stabilize the frets, and have always been tempted by wood glue. Did you give it enough time to cure? Titebond gets really hard when dry. I've heard of people using epoxi resin too...  The important thing is that that fretboard is looking really great. Love the grain on the wood. Well done!!!

Thx! Had i given it enough time to cure? No and yes... No when i decided to refret, that was right after 1 or two hours... But yes when i removed the frets again - that was over 24 hours later and it still did feel a bit moveable on certain points.
Assuming and fingers crossed that superglue will give in to heat in many years when there is the need to refret for me superglue is the way to go there. Of course epoxy will work fine, but with the curing time it must be clamped down and i don´t think there is a real benefit over superglue. I am happy with the result 😄 and have run in my next issue 🤣

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To remove superglued frets, you just need to use superglue remover. It will dissolve cyanoacrylate enough for you to pull out the frets w/out too much damage to the fretboard. But if you're using stainless frets you probably will never have to do it, as they're virtually indistructable.

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Yeah - hope so 😉

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On 11/8/2016 at 8:32 PM, Vodka said:

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The Quest goes on!

 

Dedicated fret end file .. i love ultra smooth fret ends with no chance to hurt yourself and no chance for the string to stick beneath

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... some sanding and some fret rubbers to finish the finish there

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that is absolutely what i am talking about

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cannot wait to play those

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... ans one wants to know where the fretboard s/he is playing

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really was unsure if those plastic dots are really what i want to use... did a test and they look ok... just the way we all are used to.. slight problem - i must have broken my 2.0mm drillbit, hatd a 2.2mm - and decided to use it and fill the minigap - if any with sawdust and superglue

.... drilling

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.... went well and here we go with inserting the first ones

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quite straightforward

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well.... i always need to know quickly where is my 5th and 15th fret... i hate quickly landing on 7th when i wanted 5th ... that´s rare ... but it did happen... so no not in my masterbuild - here 15 and 17 are white

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sharp blade and sandpaper

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useing the so produced sawdust with superglue to liff it all

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sanding again

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and on to another point of no return 😉

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as the sidedots where a bit hard to drill with no guideholes ... i used my knowledge from there to not make the same thing again but create guideholes with that sharp drillbit

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then go all the way with a small 3mm

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and finish from both sides with the 10mm... unluckywise it was too old and just not good enough - see the tearout! Ugh...  Yes... of course that will be covered by the washer... but still having done something with great caution, even drilling in reverse before starting the real hole and resulting in a subpar manner... that´s unsatisfying... so....

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... on to the fix with sawdust and superglue

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yes, quite a good fix

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on to sanding the body by hand a bit

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Just had to try my machineheads there... i am planning to use those wonderful D´addario locking tuners with string-auto-cut

HAH... as i left the head 15mm wide thats just just just slim enough to make it fixable

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Argh.. will have to file that hole a bit to have the tuners sit flat there... it might look like i coudn´t even drill a straight hole ... maybe yes, but that is caused by the fact that i added (or left) the upper side a lil bit curved for extra fancynesswhich led to that 1mm offset on the back... quite an easy fix that will not be seen later on ....

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I am happy about that progress there.

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On 11/8/2016 at 8:32 PM, Vodka said:

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Let´s .... make sure it´s  even less complicated next time

 

... those guys will help with that, also the 2mm precision drills for sidedots
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... and let´s do what i do best and like most  - fix some

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one hole down

hmmmmm.... stilll .... what am i going to do with that connection line there... it will be covered or taken attention off by the tuners of course... but .. i dunno... we will see

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almost at least shows the test

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that is good

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after a lil sanding to make it a tad smaller it will be a great headstock i think

 

 

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Very nice job with fret dressing. Those ends are really smooth and round. The drilling of the headstock is a real pain. Tear-out is really difficult to evoid, no matter how much care you take. Everything is looking really nice!

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On 11/3/2021 at 3:47 AM, TeaCuppBaggins said:

SO COOL, and the amount of accomplishment you must feel!

Yeah, it´s all only fun. Every minute. Thx!

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on to some sanding!

 

The headstock is a bit too fat .. my tuners will look better at a depth of 14.5 than 15.5 like now

that´s a way powerfull machine - it´s very hard to get a very even result - i will finish by hand later

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the body... i am going to a 240gr - 320gr final sanding before finish.. starting with 80gr

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yeah, that´s already nice!

I love how the wood behaves on the trasition of that lines

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80 and 120 done.... next will be 180, and handsanding. YAY!!

 

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On we go... let´s create some dust!

 

 

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those imperfections can no way be left to stay

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a lot lot of work to do

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between each picture there is a reasonable amount of sanding by hand....

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... so if you feel that are a lot of pictures imagine sanding 12 mins between each 😄

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oh yeah.... i was hoping the corners will be good, but it´s just feeling great

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such scratches from rough sanding/carving - real beasts to get rid off - they go deeper than they look

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move away paper - that´s a job for the file

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and it does it well

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Scrapers again, extremely helpful

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nice and clean

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and some finer sanding on the sides

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had to fix that line with a small file there

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that´s better

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on to the back

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the wood moves a lot still... backcover had to be sanded to move easily (and look good)

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edges to be rounded over

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all is good

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frontways is rightways now
120

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a long time later ... 240

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and 400..

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yes - 400 is gonna be too smooth for any finish to penetrate the wood but my theory is ... i go all the way to 400, and in the end one final sandingprocess with 240... should give me the best result !? or is just overdoing it

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it does not look like it... but it´s so much fun seing that wood to get into life

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one body, 400

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And on to the neck

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a long time later - one neck, 400 (still not done there on certain places)
 

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Scary things coming up

 

... so let´s be sure it´s straight

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and let´s mofo go

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fits in place nicely

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away with the excess glue (just very little) and

CLAMP CLAMP CLAMP

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what would we all be without the best helpers in the world?

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20 hours of clamping

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hah!!! that´s already not too bad a joint

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let´s finetune that

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that is good enough for me

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headstock

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ah... lil bit more

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now that´s fine

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and more scary things..... testing for some control positions

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We will see...

Very very happy there

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Oh boy.. from the beginning i was afraid to tackle that step...

 

...and i hardly mean putting a ruler on top of the body...

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no, rather that one... taking a drill and destroying that wonderful surface.
The ruler is to show me the correct angling, though the other option of having the controls straight up unangled would be ok also, but i like it better that way

starting with the tiny 2mm from front - will i hit the cavity?

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a hole or two

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phhhhhhh, very much where i want those

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after that bad bad breakout drilling the headstock a short prayer and let´s go

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i don´t dare to clean that up and see the result.... so let´s take pictures

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going bigger from the back for the switch. Remember to mark which hole you want to get bigger!!!

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hmmm

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not too bad

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of course i left far too much wood there so there needs to be more drilling... and that drill works "best" if the tip has a place to settle

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but we are not going for a beauty contest inside the back cavity

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that hole is wide enough after filing

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looks good to me... let´s test some

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yieeeha

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and the volume one..... i don´t do tone pots ... so useless for me. My standard design would have no volume pots also, i´d just use the middleposition of the switch as "off" position, but for that setup i just coudn´t sacrifice the option to have the HB and P90 on at the same time.

 

more drilling

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and chiseling

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and filing

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a tad short

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that will do, yay

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and the jack hole... a lil off center - totally gives me the creeps, i had measured a lot of times precisely and i had used a drill with a ultrasharp tip - how did that happen? there i really have no explanation. Just gotten lucky that it´s not worse. In the end absolutely no problem cause it has got to be a lot larger for the final result and i am gonna do that by filing and it´s end up in the exact middle. Still a mistery.

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That has only taken me 90 mins and was a lot more straightforward than i was fearing.
The one hole missing there for the ground i will drill when mounting the bridge.... oh there might be 6 more holes missing then, but we will see.
I didn´t destroy it. I got holes. Very happy.

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Let´s get closer to the finish 😉

 

Coffee and Guitar ... what a combo
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more finesanding - here getting rid of the middleline markings

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protect the board

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have a clean clean working space (and very clean hands

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no idea what those wonderful things are gonna do to that wood

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very very untypical way to start, but that time, really i start at the back

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let´s go

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First a layer of penetrating finishing oil, rubbing in with 600gr wet and dry paper

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i really like that, as expected ... a bit of darkening, but also a lot of bringing it to life

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can hardly be caught on camera

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let it dry and cannot wait to do more of that awesome part of the build...

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Looks well ok dry 😄

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I really like the accenting of that pattern

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the Makro does not really show how it looks

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BUT!!!!!!! Oh my .... what is that O_O ... i completely forgot ..... i ordered some grain enhancer in gold also back in april.... i think that shall be applied with no oil on.....

 

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Some quick testing ... a throwaway piece, sanded to 240 and 400 on the other end... a part with and without oil each side... let us go

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yummie

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also a testpiece for the neck....
 

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description says it shall be applied, left for drying, 2nd coat, drying, sanding, oil....

PHHHHH... i don´t have time nor motivation to delay my work for tests... not my way ... let´s go without

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ugh.... that´s very golden and absolutely looks so much worse than the original wood

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phhh, i dunno... here it´s frontside done, left for drying

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i don´t think that was the best idea at all

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what do you do when you are not sure if what you are doing is any good?

 

- exactly .... you apply it on the whole guitar...

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.... and you go for another coat of course 😉

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golden girl?

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oh my ... that sticks.... there is gonna be a lot of sanding ... and i hope i will like the grainfillked result!?!??

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we will see ....

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... and we do ...
sorry for the spamload of pics, was a weeks work, so there are a few

sanding that down

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yes, as wished - gold seems to stick on the grainpattern while the wood returns to the natutral beauty

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a lot of work but it starts to pay

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not everything can be caught by the machine, a lot of handsanding... that´s 120

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oh my.... why oh why did i paint the inside of the bat....

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that´s 240 on all the surface

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DONE...... oh yeah

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very very happy... see the carving of the horns facing the neck - there is no grainfiller - huge difference!

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And now for the fun fun fun part 😄

 

Penetrating Oil

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oh see that come to life

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already love it

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applied with 600gr sandpaper - i should have gone 1500 maybe

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first coat dried

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on to the back of the neck

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and headstock

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and back - here is no grainfiller to have the difference for good

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makro for the grain

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that´s with 2 coats

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already a bit shiny

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I could not be happier with that

4 Coats of Oil done (2 penetrating, 2 high build)


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On to final coating with Rainaissance Wax

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applied by heating the tissue to melt it a bit and then rubbed in

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yay

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Let´s go for the first part here i have actually done before!

Permanent marker on those fret-tops and let´s go!

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Levelling beam 320gr - you gotta be ultra watchful with that cause it takes away a lot of material

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moving to 600gr

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using the greatest luthiers trick of all time

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quite some material removed to reach the same level

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fret rocker 3 positions each position

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Fallaway from 12th for better playability and less buzz

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that´s good

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On to crowning... i use triangular crowning files with smoothened edges... this one is brandnew and huge compared to the tiny one i am used too, that one works too

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that´s what the result shall be - just a slim slim line about .3 mm wide or so

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doing that for all frets

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Done in like 40mins or so

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finalising starts with like 800gr paper wrapped around a card ...

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thats nice

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working up 1200 - 2000 - 3000

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already shiny

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polishing is possible in a dozend of ways, i go for like 4 here... 1st already was 3000gr paper, now fretrubbers Fine and superfine

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Yes... don´t forget to fretrock to make sure all is perfect!!!!

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Wash that dirty hands and clean up the workspace!!!

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any dirt will lower the result from now on

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patient is alive

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shiny

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let´s clean that fretboard

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2400 up to 1200gr

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of course the frets are harmed again... let´s go for final (?) polishing

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that´s way 4 and by far the quickest 😉

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useless stuff there

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great stuff there

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after like 8 coats of fretboard oil... happy

 

 

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The grain in the neck looks amazing. You gotta give it up to the tree here, it gave you an amazing base to work off of. This post is really making me want to build my own guitar, you're doing an great job and I love the documentation.  Lack of time, tools, and money is more than a little of an impedance for me at the moment, but I got a garage and a workshop so hopefully one day I can give it a whirl.

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On 11/25/2021 at 11:06 AM, GeoAbraxas said:

The grain in the neck looks amazing. You gotta give it up to the tree here, it gave you an amazing base to work off of. This post is really making me want to build my own guitar, you're doing an great job and I love the documentation.  Lack of time, tools, and money is more than a little of an impedance for me at the moment, but I got a garage and a workshop so hopefully one day I can give it a whirl.

First - thx! 2nd - You gotta go for it. Lack of time is relative, i bought the stuff in march for my bd early april... No rushing in no way. As with learning to play also here the way is the target completely. The tree is my friend here, yeah! I´m trying to honor it for good. You don´t need a lot of money or tools to start. Just try to grab some wood and start designing your guitar 😉

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On we go

 

The Fretboard dried. Will get more coats before stringing of course, but it looks ok already i think.

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yay, a guitar... on to more finish-work

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there is already quite some gloss after 4 coats of wax

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more wax, applied with heater and paper

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final coat with lots of buffing to polish it

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i love it... such a good looking and even more feeling finish.

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i think that grainfilling really pays

 

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never thought i could create something like that... sometimes in life you need pure luck

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