Hayling Island

Hayling Island

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

New headstock ...

I am a little proud of the way this turned out ... waterslide decal, layer of varnish over the top .. oh, my ...


Wednesday, September 11, 2019

HP LaserJet 2100

Replaced my laser printer with a newer one from that auction site. Paid £15 delivered. Scary what you can buy these days for pennies. It even came with a Jetdirect network option I wasn't expecting ..

Time for a bit of guitar painting ..

My favourite guitar from the collection is a Peavey Predator .. it looks a little old, jaded and beaten up around the edges so I have decided it's time for a remodelling. It has a grounding issue as well, so time I took the faceplate off. I have a couple of slightly hotter pickups for the neck and middle as well, so hopefully this will be an improvement.


Tobacco sunburst original (meh)

So we are in the business of respraying body and front of the headstock in a nice traditional surf green, nitrocellulose paint.

I sanded down the body to mostly paint, but some of the sunburst left. It is a proper paint job, not plastic coated so once sanded it makes a good surface to paint on. The first job is to give the body a complete priming - this is three thin coats followed by one last one.



Once the primer has dried overnight, I gave it it a light wet and dry sanding with 1200 grade paper, and then began putting the colour coats on. This is after about six thin coats. It's now hanging in the garage for a week to harden nicely before I give it another wet and dry, probably with grades up to 2000 and then it will be time for about six coats of clear gloss lacquer. Then, it will be a good month of letting it harden properly before final sanding, polishing and re-fitting all of the hardware. I've a little extra thing to do; I have some waterslide decal medium for the inkjet, so I need to make up something to go onto the headstock front, which is Surf Green as well now.



I am looking forward to this a lot - it's difficult to be patient!