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Old February 7th, 2012, 11:55 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Old February 7th, 2012, 12:17 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Old February 7th, 2012, 12:23 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Need a few more pics before I say for sure. Not too keen, but it could be the angle and/or lighting.
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Old February 7th, 2012, 12:24 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Need more pics please!
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Old February 7th, 2012, 12:25 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I like it! More details would be nice. Is the copper buried in clear? How hard was the finish to do?
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Old February 7th, 2012, 12:37 PM   #6 (permalink)
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this is during the build under better lighting. it looks 3d when the angle changes. 22 coars of clear with lots of wet sanding between coats.
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Old February 7th, 2012, 12:42 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I love it! That is one cool looking guitar, nice job.
What brand of clear coat did you use?
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Old February 7th, 2012, 12:49 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I started with Nitro from Reranch but quickly discovered it would take 10 cans! I wound up using catalized urethane.

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Old February 7th, 2012, 02:21 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Very cool. I really like the fretboard shot. Can we see more of it?
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Old February 7th, 2012, 09:57 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I'm liking it so far, need natural light pics though. You didn't use copper for the frets did you? Nah, you wouldn't...
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Old February 8th, 2012, 02:34 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Guess you don't have any problem with the 60 cycle hum on that thing.

Bet it looks good in the lights.
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Old February 8th, 2012, 03:30 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Man, that's gorgeous. Would love to see a step by step of that.
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Old February 10th, 2012, 01:48 PM   #14 (permalink)
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If the sun ever comes out I'll put some natural light photos up
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Old February 10th, 2012, 01:55 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Very intresssting, that's copper foil I'm guessing?
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As they say in the Old Country, that's totally bitchin' and fully rad, man.

Beautiful guitar. Is catalized urethane particularly good over nitro?
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Old February 10th, 2012, 06:19 PM   #17 (permalink)
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copper shielding foil from stumac... 3 entire rolls!
The clear works fine over nitro and provides far superior protection over nitro clear.
If you want to do any relicing though, you have to use nitro.
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Old February 10th, 2012, 06:20 PM   #18 (permalink)
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I'm going to do another one in a month or so and I will document the whole thing.
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Old February 12th, 2012, 07:42 AM   #19 (permalink)
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I'm going to do another one in a month or so and I will document the whole thing.
Cool. Look forward to that one.
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Old February 12th, 2012, 07:54 AM   #20 (permalink)
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looks like a kit-kat.
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