Leaderboard

This weekend was a bit mundane. Coating, sanding and recoating one of the bodies in superglue. It works well as a pore filler but not as well as epoxy. Experimentation on both bodies so far suggests at least two coats are needed to fill the pores and it takes a lot of work to build up a finish for use as a primer, even when I use an accelerator. It might be simply more convenient to use two-pack epoxy. For the next buid, I'll check out pre-catalysed lacquer instead. But for necks it's worth using CA glue for a premium and versatile finish. I also broke out the new Makita orbital sander and it's doing fabulous work, so much more controllable than it's no brand predecessor. However when I ran a white base coat over the 2 point trem body, all sorts of bumps and sanding imperfections revealed themselves that I swear were invisible before. So note to self: Check the surface up against an oblique light source next time. The base coat turned out to be gloss rather than matt - I think they made a mistake with the order but no matter. I roughed it up with some 320 grit and after a few days to harden, hopefully should be good for the dayglo graffiti colour next weekend. I also marked out the location of the rout for the Kahler bridge which is taking the sustainer. That went a lot more smoother than I thought...I checked the markings, cross checked them and measured again, everything seems lined up as expected. I'm still bracing myself for some oversight. It makes the decision to rout a little harrowing. Over the weekend, I also dabbled in a spot of electronics. My preEB MM Stingray preamp opamp has died but can't be replaced due to being covered with epoxy. I have a replacement Retrovibe one coming but thought I might investigate the possibility of doing one myself. The cost of parts is peanuts here. The only issue is getting reverse log 1 meg pots, they aren't available in China. So I have ten coming over from Switch in the UK as well. Not cheap but...well, y'know. That experience also got me wondering about effect pedal circuits and then I found myself going down a rabbit hold trying to find a circuit that might get close to the Yamaha E1010 delay (with 4 BBD MN2003 chips). Nothing out there after a day of intermittent searching...