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Showing posts with label Colour Coats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colour Coats. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Thinline Cabronita: Wired and Making Noise!

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Well, she's finally finished - the Ash Surf-abilly Thinline Cabronita. I'm very, very happy with the final results - much better th...
Saturday, 25 April 2015

Cabronita Thinline: Clear Coats & Assembly

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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...
Wednesday, 8 April 2015

Cabronita Thinline: Hot Rod Flames

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OK, it's decided - subtle hot rod flames it is for the Thinline Cabronita. Here's how I go about adding simple flames to a paint jo...
Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Cabronita Thinline: Hot Rod Flames?

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I've been looking hard at the Thinline Cabronita build over the last few days with its large expense of seafoam green and only a very s...
Friday, 27 March 2015

Thinline Cabronita: Colour Coats

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With the Ash Stratocaster still on the bench awaiting a bone nut blank, I had a chance to get back to the Thinline Cabronita which has bee...
Friday, 8 August 2014

James' Les Paul Jnr: More Butterscotch Wudtone, Custom Pickguard

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James' Les Paul Jnr Double Cut is continuing very nicely indeed. Today I got the second coat of Butterscotch Wudtone on the body and th...

Surf Monster Telecaster: Colour Coats Take #4

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Well, yet another clear coat fail on the Surf Monster Telecaster. That makes 3 attempts so far, although the blue dye job can't really ...
Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Mosrite Ventures Mk II: The Paint is On!

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Well today I got the painting finished on the Johnny Ramone Mosrite Ventures Mk II (fingers crossed!!). In the end I put 4 coats of ...
Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Stone Roses Tribute: Second Pollocking Complete

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Well the last dollop of colour went onto the sides of the Stone Roses RC-1 today. It's looking pretty good - definitely different from ...
Friday, 4 July 2014

Stone Roses Tribute: Pollocking Almost Complete

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After two rounds of colour I'm happy with the results of the my second Pollocking attempt. Maybe not as awesome as the first time, but ...
Sunday, 29 June 2014

Stone Roses Tribute: 9th Colour Layer (Second Coming)

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Well, the Pollocking is coming along (again) and hopefully I'm creating something that will come close to what we had before. The 9th c...
Sunday, 8 June 2014

Surf Monster Telecaster: Seafoam v2.0

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The first coat of seafoam green went on to the Surf Monster Telecaster v3.0 today. The primer levelled out nicely with 800 grit sandpaper a...
Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Surf Monster Telecaster: Paint Going On!

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The Surf Monster Telecaster is really looking like something now. I sanded the body down to 400 grit, filled the pores with Timbermate and ...
Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Solid Body PRS: Headstock and Control Cavity Cover

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A bit more progress on the PRS today. I traced the control cavity on the back of the guitar and cut a cover out of a pickguard blank for i...
Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Stone Roses Tribute: Video Build Diary #6

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The sixth installment of my video build diary for the RC-1 Stone Roses Tribute is now on YouTube. This installment deals with the actual Po...
Sunday, 13 April 2014

Stone Roses Tribute: Psychedelic Pollocking Complete

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Well today I finally finished the Pollock inspired colour coats on my Stone Roses Tribute build. With the last splatter coat in place on th...