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Well, another basswood build, another dye attempt, and another clear-coat fail. There seems to be a curse on the Holgate man-cave. This bui...

Jeremy's Les Paul has finally cured to the point where I can start looking at it again. Unfortunately, after flattening the clear with ...

Big strides forward on the Ash Mosrite build the last couple of days, with the body finally cured and the polishing completed. To get the c...

There's not much happening in the man cave at the moment, what with 3 builds hanging with un-cured Acrylic clear coats. Luckily there i...

Some more progress on Jeremy's Les Paul today. With the acrylic clear coats having hung for a month of more drying, it was high time I ...

It's first weekend of the new year and today (Sunday) was definitely a day for levelling and clear coating, with my Ash Mosrite joining...

After 3 days worth of clear coats with White Knight gloss acrylic (3 coats per day), the 12 String Telecaster was ready for a couple of wee...

A week has past since my last post on Jeremy's Mahogany Les Paul build. In the intervening days, the body has been receiving regular c...

I finally got a new pickguard in the mail today from my mate Craig (pablopepper) on the Buildyourownguitar forum . This time it's a bla...

Was finally able to get back into a little building today. With travel for work followed by a couple of weeks holiday OS, there 's been...

Well, she's finally finished - the Ash Surf-abilly Thinline Cabronita. I'm very, very happy with the final results - much better th...

After a few sessions baking under the IR lamp, the chemical smell has finally gone from the White King Acrylic clear coats and my Surf-abil...

After a few hours on the IR lamp, and with no discernible smell of chemicals coming off the surface, I guessed that the acrylic lacquer on ...

After a day of rain and no way to spray outdoors, the weather was bright and sunny today and I was able to get the can of White Knight clea...

More levelling and clear coating today on the Ash Stratocaster. Firstly, I took the acrylic clear back with 800 grit wet-sanding until bot...