Dub's Wacky Project Guitars Thread--we're baaaaaack

[dubkitty]

i started sanding the headstock. i’m pleased to note that the medium-weight CA dries to a nice consistent density that is hard enough that it’s a bit of a chore leveling out the irregularities in the dried glue. i think it will polish out just fine, perhaps needing a coat of brush-on poly if it won’t buff out on its own. i’m taking this very slowly because i don’t want to have to do this again.

ordered more CA-related stuff from StewMac: aerosol
accelerator for the glues so i can work more quickly in thinner layers and avoid unevenness, a plastic mixing palette CA won’t adhere to, and a bunch of plastic dropfill toothpicks which i trust more than pooting glue out of the bottle via a “whiptip.”

once the black headstock work is reasonably “done,” i’ll build out the ding in the white-painted side of the headstock. this will be my testbed for mixing the correct tint to match the Vintage White i.e. slightly yellowed hue. when the headstock is sorted i’ll use some of the fingerboard grain filler to build out the ding on the left lower bout, which was helpful when working on the damage to the Kondor, till it’s close to the necessary height. obviously i’m leaving the neck for last. i don’t know if it would be better to work CA into the finish cracks, or to sand that area down and use the CA like repair paint. leaning towards working it in, which i think will preserve the neck contour best.

i’m eager to have the Jetstar in full service. i’ve been playing it in between work sessions and with the new Stetsbar handle and the pickups swapped front-to-back and cranked up it’s an absolute beast if a well-mannered one. the trem has a Bigsby feel but is a bit more precise…it’d be perfect for playing “Marquee Moon.” it’s kind of like a Firebird’s cousin that goes to continuation school, huge on the bass pickup and snarly on the bridge especially through the AC15 with Top Boost on. i’m slightly tempted to add a third LB-1 as Guild calls them nowadays, but i can resist.

it’s kind of amazing how the idea of taking pickups from what for all intents and purposes was a dead guitar to put in the sparkly blue DeArmond wound me up with two guitars that work so well for me that i have a non-tremolo M-75 coming in.

why do i not just use filler and rattlecans? because i live in a small 5th floor apartment, have nowhere i could go to use spray paint, and am a terrible spray painter.