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Thread ID: 126603 2012-09-07 04:44:00 So... what does your work desk look like? ronyville (10611) PC World Chat
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1299495 2012-09-10 11:09:00 4240 Metla (12)
1299496 2012-09-10 11:57:00 Eventually got around to posting a sorry pic of my desk.

Been busy with a design and photography portfolio, musical performance and Art History essays. Good stuff is Level 3. Seems strange but it looks a lot tidier in the pic than real life :p

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Cameras have moved on a little these days.;)
mikebartnz (21)
1299497 2012-09-10 14:06:00 That can happen if the paint is too thick as well.

Good possibility of that too to consider. I usually try to get 6-10 coats of color after the required number of primer applications then all of it followed with about another 10-15 coats of clear polyurethane.

Up until the Gibson replacement body that I built, that has been a great formula, but this time I was using an untried catalyzed primer made for marine applications. I've used the same name-brand-spec paints before, but never their primers - so that may be the mitigating factor here.


Nice :) Do you do Acoustic guitars?

Acoustics are a different animal, and as yet I haven't built one although I've repaired a lot in that design. Right now I've got a bridge to reattach and relieve the upwelling on the face from someone putting standard steel strings on a classical guitar that is designed for nylon/classic composite strings.

I like working on them and in the near future I'll attempt a full-on build - but not right yet. I've been doing fret leveling jobs and neck repairs, and frankly they are easier but more delicate items on which to work; I have to use soft hammers.
SurferJoe46 (51)
1299498 2012-09-10 22:32:00 Good possibility of that too to consider. I usually try to get 6-10 coats of color after the required number of primer applications then all of it followed with about another 10-15 coats of clear polyurethane.

Up until the Gibson replacement body that I built, that has been a great formula, but this time I was using an untried catalyzed primer made for marine applications. I've used the same name-brand-spec paints before, but never their primers - so that may be the mitigating factor here.
Certainly sounds like the primer as when I mentioned about the paint being too thick I meant as in one coat going on too thickly.
mikebartnz (21)
1299499 2012-09-11 10:59:00 Acoustics are a different animal, and as yet I haven't built one although I've repaired a lot in that design. Right now I've got a bridge to reattach and relieve the upwelling on the face from someone putting standard steel strings on a classical guitar that is designed for nylon/classic composite strings.

I like working on them and in the near future I'll attempt a full-on build - but not right yet. I've been doing fret leveling jobs and neck repairs, and frankly they are easier but more delicate items on which to work; I have to use soft hammers.

Haha, I put some steel strings on my $50 guitar which was meant to be used with nylon strings. I knew you aren't meant to do it , but I was bored and the guitar tuning peg was broken anyway, so went ahead. Super hard to turn the tuning pegs with metal strings - and with the broken peg, I had to use a wrench to turn it! Next day the neck was slightly bent and the bridge came out a bit! Probably sounded better than nylon strings though ! :D
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