Colour spray done. I think the template worked well enough.
I gave the body a light buffing to get rid of the over spray and help with blending the inner edge.
Here's the back.
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Working on the top.
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Filled the missing colour on the side of the repairs.
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Removed the electrical tape and cleaned of the sticky residue with Ronson fluid. A little bit of scraping was needed on the binding.
This is where I'm at.
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The binding repair is a good as I can get. Note the offending patch near the bridge that I'm hoping the touch up pens will fix. I can't do any more with the finish until that's dealt with.
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Drop filled the chips on the headstock using a toothpick.
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Cleaned the neck and put the tuners back on.
Removed all the masking that was in place for the spraying then re did it for the fret cleaning.
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Buffed the frets with the Dremel and jewellers rouge.
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The frets are not too bad on this one, here is one half done.
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Cleaned and lubed the tuners before refitting.
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Oiled the fretboard and wiped the gunk off.
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Lightly buffed and wiped down the bit of spraying I did on the sides.
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It's now ready for touching up and the clear coats.
I imagine you're starting to see a bit of light at the end of the tunnel now
...hope he appreciates the work gone into it
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Yep, almost there. Two more weekends and it should be compete. I want rid of this now, it's overstayed it's welcome.
looks like a nice colour finish....
out of curiosity when you say you sprayed it what did you use ?
Halfords auto paint (taking the cue from the likes of Fender who used car paint back in the day), I will finish with their clear lacquer later.
I would have preferred to use semi transparent nitrocellulose paint but that would been an expensive and long job.
thought that was the case ..
looks good though....plenty of lacquer needed I imagine
reckon you want to come round mine and sort the dent some 'see you next Tuesday' put in my passenger side car door put in with a bike pedal
Amazing job, your mate doesn't realise how lucky he is. Love to see his face when you give him it back
The touch up pens did a decent job. I coloured in the missing bit a few times and then buffed lightly with Meguiars on a cloth. If should be lost under the clear coats and and the eyes will also be distracted by the strings once they are fitted.
The pens.
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Before, not a great pic.
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After.
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Now the clear coats of lacquer.
Masked off the neck and fretboard again, before spraying in the garage.
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Spraying is not my forte. Sprayed a bit too much at once this time.
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Confirmed by this run when I hung the guitar to dry.
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Improvised for some horizontal drying. When its dry I'll hang it for a week then see what's what.
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