"Vinyl" Inlays

New neck inlays finished! Two days until the guitar goes back together :D

Lacquer: A looooong time later

After nearly two months of letting multiple clear coats set the guitar is ready for a final rubbing down before polishing. Here's the neck...

Neon Particles

Tentatively sprayed the first coat of paint with the incredible Montana Gold range of spray cans. So far it doesn't look anything like the colour its meant to but hopefully that will come with a few more coats. Quite liking the kind of camouflage style as it is.... like fluorescent yellow more though!

Prime work space

Found a great space to spray in a completely empty loft above a shop. Can't get in there very often but better than spraying in the street. Three coats of grey acrylic primer done and hung drying ready for colour...

Primer Problems

So I was going to get the first coat of primer on today until I read a little about the primer the nice lady in the shop recommended. Turns out Gesso primer (generally used on canvas) goes rock solid and with all likely-hood would sap all the resonance and tone from the wood. Trip back to the shop to get standard spray acrylic primer tomorrow!

In the mean time here a nice snap of the tubes glowing in my new Marshall DSL100 (just before the fuse pops signalling dead valves :(

Some days later...

After slaving away sanding by hand I borrowed a hand sander and paint stripper :D

Day 1

So I've started a project on my 1987 RG550 to restore it to glory.... today was mostly sanding... by hand... ouch