Maude

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine - Stan & Ollie 

Hocus Pocus - Focus 

I'm not going to mention the resonator ukulele that I've just been given in pieces for many reasons.... oh bugger! 🙊

One down, fifty-one to go. 

I've given the body a misting of black flake this afternoon. 

I found an aerosol of black flake in a clear suspension to make life easy (I've got full on flake going on on another project), it's a very fine flake but that's OK as I didn't want anything too mad. Whether it'll be worth it time will only tell, I can't see the flake until it's properly lacquered. I had to put a couple of coats of aerosol lacquer over it to seal it in to allow me to flat it for the proper lacquer coat. The flake coat went on really dry and as such the finish is now horrific, I'll give it some time to fully dry, flat it back and then I can put the wood effect sides on and the faux binding, then give the entire thing a good couple of coats of lacquer. 

What's it they say nowadays? Trust the process. Hmm, it definitely looks far worse now than it did this morning. 

Delicate - Terry Derby 

Nobody's Dairy - Yazoo 

Hips Now Or Never - Elvis 

I'm never going to last, it's my birthday this year. 

19 hours ago, neepheid said:

Take comfort, @AndyTravis - I checked back and last year someone was out on the 2nd Jan...

19 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

A Sansamp FlyRig. Technically a gift from Mrs T, but I’m not going to try to worm out of it. It’s gear.

 

I could’ve bought some new trainers or something.

I was hoping for a fretless Ripper or something 😁

12 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

I’M OUT.

 

Good. Glad that’s out of the way.

How spectacularly are you out? 😁

Short clip to try and show the depth and colour of the pearl celluloid. 

Excuse the terrible work radio. 

Leave it Alone - NOFX 

43 minutes ago, rwillett said:

Looking at them again, the two outside ones are so similar and so complex, that I'm pretty sure they are 3d printed. They are too similar and too complex to be hand carved IMHO. 

 

Any information welcomed as I like them 

Do this work for you? I never know who can see what on these Facebook groups. 

This is where the post originated but there's little info about the guitars. 

As you say they must be printed rather than carved. 

I've just knocked up a pickguard out of some red pearl celluloid sheet I had. It's too thin really for a pickguard but it has a crazy depth to the pearl. It's almost black until the light hits the pearl blocks, then a lovely deep red. I've never seen any of the newer pickguard material act like this stuff. 

The shape needs refining as I just did it quickly to see if it would look OK being so thin, but I think the depth of colour makes up for lack of thickness. 

Also will need a good polish but I don't want to put the polisher on it indoors as if it gets too hot it self combusts. 

It's hard to catch the colour 'popping' but here ya go. 🙂

Oh yeah, the black has been flatted ready for some fun and games. 😉

8 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

I did a Acrylic P once. Was 15lbs

Bargain!   

1 minute ago, neepheid said:

 

I think it's when money first changes hands dictates whether or not it counts as this year's intake.  If you have to put a deposit down to secure it then I'd say that's an out - people use the same argument to justify things ordered the previous year but won't arrive until the current year...

 

If you can pre-order it for free then I don't think it counts.

If a card or PayPal is used then nothing is taken until they have it in stock. Once in stock they take the money and send it. 

I'm probably not going to order anyway as (for me) it's obscenely expensive... But if I sell some stuff 😉. 

Go on, count me in. Although the last two years have been spectacular failures 😂. 

I have enquired about a bass but as stock isn't expected before April 2025 and the money won't be taken until it's in then I assume that won't count if I do decide to order? 

I love the look of a clear bass but I just couldn't live with the routing and drill lines. Completely ruins the look. I know you could hide it all behind a pickguard but even the strap button holes bug me. 

The weight I could live, the routes? No way. 

This picture was posted on the Underdog-Obscure, Trashy and Kool guitars and Amps group. 

It doesn't say how they constructed but could these possibly be 3d printed?

It would be a heck of a lot of work carving them. 

What's going there? I mean, I can clearly see it's a BB but who made that? 

It's a Family Affair - Sly and the Family Stone 

Kung Fu - Ash 

On 28/12/2023 at 18:57, kodiakblair said:

Early Mosrite basses had 20 frets and the baritone had 24.

 

Solution, remove the excess neck.

 

 

 

I love the seemingly rashness of this 😁. 

I'll just chop the excess off! 

It's looking great now though 👌