Drilling my H/H Jaguar body for a tremolo. Ensuring the tremolo and neck are fitted straight and true.
Candy Apple Red H/H Fender Jaguar. Setting the neck, and test-fitting the tremolo bridge
Candy Apple Red H/H Fender Jaguar. Sealing and priming the body for nitro lacquer
Prepping a two-piece, alder, "reissue" style Jaguar body - ready for spraying a candy apple red, nitro lacquer paint job
Kurt Cobain “Jag-Stang”. Body prep, and primer coats
With a lay-off fast approaching - I need to push on with a few spray painting jobs, so they can cure in the meanwhile. First-off - I'm priming the Warmoth JagStang body, ready for it's Sonic Blue, nitro colour coat
Custom Fender Jazzmaster. Re-painting, Stage 1 (of 2). Candy Apple Red basecoats
Finding a way to apply a really smooth and consistent metallic basecoat, for a Candy Apple Red re-finish job, on my Custom Fender Jazzmaster
Paint it black.
It's a refreshing change, and the pressure's off - not having to get everything finished to the best possible standard. Since I'll eventually be beating the finish up to simulate age, there seems little point in worrying about minor imperfections. But then, those little imperfections only ever seem to show themselves when I'm really, really trying hard to keep it perfect.
The Strummercaster pickguard. Shortcuts to a history of wear and tear.
It's an odd sort of way to go about things - trying to replicate years and years of guitar work. Literally hundreds of thousands of guitar strums probably - and I'm trying to do it as quickly and efficiently as I can.
Primer coats for the Strummercaster.
There's little point trying to recreate every coat of paint, every mark of the original. Instead, I'll try to focus on applying paint in the right places, and then focussing on a general ageing process to bring out specific details.
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