Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

[coldbrightsunlight]

Wow that finish is excellent, even if it was horrible to do!

[Zork]

That looks great!!!

[repoman]

I bought some water based lacquer a while ago trying to move away from VOC/solvent based stuff, unfortunately working with it is kind of a nightmare. It sprays horribly, pools up in giant fisheyes at random, and dries in the gun when you are shooting it, leaves a surface like sandpaper when it doesn't fisheye, then clean up is a giant pain in the ass because once it's dry it needs paint stripper to clean up. The color I managed to get with some of that Didspade pigment on this 25.5 scale Firebird I built a while ago is kind of nice though, still needs more coats.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Wow it looks good though!

[repoman]

I bought a smallish bench mill so I could do some more stuff with this Wandre baritone build, just loosely fitted some stuff on the headstock to see how its looking.





Will have a zero fret, brass string guide that was milled and then matching milled slots



I was able to put a -2 degree angle on the neck with the mill



Tremolo handle replaced with one I made out of pen blank stock on lathe/mill

I can polish the aluminum and then fit everything soon hopefully.

[repoman]

[backwardsvoyager]

Wow, I love that finish

Wandre looking fantastic too. Amazing work.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Woooahhh looking great there repoman

[skullservant]

Amazing

[Blackened Soul]

I've started on my "big" repair project.
I got an Aria AC-75CB https://ariaguitarsglobal.com/product/ac-75cb/ with case last year on eBay for $65.00 + shipping
It was dropped on the bottom edge of the top, separating the top/ and binding from the tailblock and along the sides for about 4", the cause the string tension to crack the the top over 2 of the braces. the idiot that did this and the one that sold it did not take off the strings... which made the issue worse.. so I've been letting the top settle back with no tension on it for a year.. Because I do not do major top crack repair all the time and even fixed the finish will look shitty I am removing the finish from the top. and then will fix with hot hide glue and refinish the top. I am using a citrus based finish remover to get the finish off because this being a classical guitar.. and a bass VI I don't want to remove any more wood than absolutely necessary.. more later..

[frodog]

This was not a ground-up project or finish-related one like the cool shit previously posted, but......just remind yourselves how cool the Jag-Stang is.

Belongs to a friend who's gonna give it to his daughter, i only replaced a busted switch (the top right/neck pu, couldn't find white so it's black) and the loose volume pot to a healthy 255k one. Also a bushing was needed for the last tuner. After that another buddy who has all these guitar cleaning/polishing agents cleaned it up excellently. Everything else stock though the vibrato arm is not here, man I would have loved to play some with that aaahhhhhhggggg

Now 100% playable, s/he/it sounds sooooo nice. I used to play this guitar at rehearsals a lot, before I had an SG, so it's real awesome to hear it in top shape again. If only I didn't have to pass it on, but at least it's for a good cause.

[repoman]

Closer....

[Chankgeez]

[Dandolin]

luvv dat

also - I'd love to have one of those Aria contrabass classicals, blackened...I will watch with interest

[Blackened Soul]

repoman, that is looking more and more slick with every update

frodog, that's cool! I always liked the way those look, sadly when you are over 6' tall and not small they make you look like a disney bear..

also - I'd love to have one of those Aria contrabass classicals, blackened...I will watch with interest

fucking orange classical instrument varnish.. this is not my first battle with this crap.. we hates it! It's almost all off the top.. so glad I masked under the top binding and am not touching the B&S&N... Also the top was not very level when they put that finish on.. it's like they did it after they stated adding coats of finish.. under the finish the top is pretty wavy.. On a positive note getting this shit off the top seems to have helped reduce the distortion that was happening with the top being broken under tension..

Also finish wise... Thinking on either just leaving it natural [it's western red cedar], graying it like I did on my 12 and my Les paul, or, black violin varnish.. kind'a want a dark top.. kinda like....