Leaderboard

The intention today was to make some templates for the cavities holding various forms of electronics going into both guitars. I did really well with the Kahler trem cavity, OK with the 9v battery compartment and the mid boost circuitry PCB cavity under the scratch plate. I spent the entire afternoon trying to rout the Sustainer PCB cavity and a template for the lid recess. I really should have stopped at the PCB cavity. It was clean, it was square and it was the right size. But oh no, I got cocky as an excuse to use a new rebating bit with a variety of thrust bearing sizes. What I didn't notice was that the router bit had came loose as I was using a copy of the PCB cavity template to rout the slightly bigger lid recess and ruined both. And to add insult to injury, I managed to ruin the original one as well (see pic, top right) for the same reason because it was only then that I realised what was really causing the chattering. Grrr. So I started from square one again and stopped while I was still ahead. I'll rout the lid recess directly into the body with the rebate bit. Need to keep an eye on that in future. The rush today was because today winter arrived like Kramer making an entrance in Seinfeld. Eight degrees and a cold, heavy rain. Next week will be back up to 23 though which is near perfect painting weather so I wanted to get the cavities done, body sanded and pore sealed with superglue. I've done all my necks in superglue and it's a great finish. Easy to repair and fill in the case of dents in the future. I did apply with a lint free cloth previously but this time I'll probably try a credit card on the flat areas instead just to see what difference it makes. I'm in two minds about an undercoat because I'm basically going to spray bomb with dayglo acrylic paint. It can pretty much go on anything regardless of prep. Anyhow...that's something for the future.