Yet another amoeba-caster

[tvvoodoo]

or paramecium, whatever My Bio 101 days are well behind me ... and you know, I haven't had to once fill anyone in on exactly what the function of the endoplasmic reticulum is.

So, I've manged to hook my leg onto the bandwagon, to take a stab at a paisley fabric finish, only with a bit of a twist. Normally the advice seems to be to glue the fabric down on wood or a base colour, but I figured I'd experiment and skip a step by saturating the fabric in sealer, to ward off the blotchy blues which often seems to happen with the glue-down method.

started with a little tele-bondage and an angle grinder...



That left 'er a bit rough around the edges



touched it up with 50 and 220 grit



much better now



As you may know - that particular pukey-green vintage white, it started as an SX STL alder body - did a bit of route and channel filling, primed with off white. Then later I changed my mind to pure white (this is before I went to pure white). I went to white because the fabric was looking a little strange coloured behind, though later on with the sanding sealer on the fabric, I'm kind of wishing I'd stayed with the off white.



Saturated the fabric, a white ladies blouse, with a bit of texture, now repurposed.



plopped it on



This method gives you about seven or eight minutes to futz with your pattern placement. Glue, as I understand it, is much less forgiving. Mod podge? I've experimented with it. Run Away. Way to soft IMO





Above is the fabric trimmed as well as an interesting closeup of how the fabric texture kind of gives a tight blond grain effect to the finish.

Thinking a thin metallic nickle type burst around the edge, to pick up the silvery grey in the colours. That is after the required umpteen million layers of sanding sealer. Still not really sure if I will paisley the back. I'll keep updating as I go along. Oh, and here's a bonus shot of a terrible Xav headstock about to be proper-ized. The b tuner hole is slithtly out of whack, because Jay at GF maintains it adds extra sparkly tone.

[adirondak5]

Looking sweet tv , I like the material
:)

[teletwang67]

In the first pics it looked like you were making it a Jeff Beck Esquire.

[SixShooter]

I really dig your contours. I have been looking for some inspiration for contours that are a little different from the norm. May have to borrow....

[sjohnbruton]

Originally Posted by SixShooter

I really dig your contours.

+1

I liked the look of the two-tone paint and wood after you contoured the body! I may have to borrow THAT!

[tvvoodoo]

Yeah I thought about stopping right there, well actually contouring the whole damn thing... but then, I realize i can get easily distracted... got a little further over the past day or so... seven coats of sealer on the front, with a bit of levelling after five, then I flipped it and flopped fabric on the back, have three coats down and will trim the fabric tomorrow. Few more coats after that, then I'll have to clean up the sides from all the drip-over, and figure out what to burst it with.

here's the front laying with coat seven and some cavity trimming.



The more I look at this thing, the more it seems to be whispering antigua-ish to me
That's probably unique, antigua paisley - I'm thinking something along the lines of this digital mockup with much less scratch plate, and a rosewood fretboard .

[garytelecastor]

Very nice guitar.

[tvvoodoo]

umpteen coats of sealer, lots of sanding, drop filling, more sanding etc... here's where we were yesterday or so..



next time I will wait until about eight or nine coats of sealer before trimming the fabric like I did on the headstock. Worked MUCH better.

Tried sanding the sealer with a bit of paint thinner dabbed onto the body, it worked very fine for heavy duty levelling, but it got a bit scary for me so I did the front and back only, getting the big work done, then reverted to more traditional sanding. I will never use a foam brush with sealer again.

rattlecanned some nitro today... in preparation for burstitude..., there's a few issues, but she's coming a long pretty ok




if anyone is interested, I keep a much more detailed project thread over at AGF,
http://www.agileguitarforum.com/showthread.php?tid=255, where I detail all my various muck-ups and mental anguish

[adirondak5]

Looks great tv , the paisley fabric build I did last year I think I had close to 9 hours wet sanding in , its is tedious but worth it .

[dtermined2play]

Looking great. I like the antigua burst around the edges.

[horsespatoot]

Did yourself proud right there.

[R. Stratenstein]

Really great look.

[tvvoodoo]

thanks!- cleared the headstock today, pics sometime. Still need to come up with a name of some sort, won't be amoeba caster....

[thorton077]

Very cool

[tvvoodoo]

yeah, not super creative, but good enough to go. hoping to burst this weekend.

[Bentley]

:O You're bursting this? THAT WILL BE SICK

[tvvoodoo]

Well.... we're gonna try. picked up some charcoal metallic, see what happens anyway. Very thin burst.

[adirondak5]

Originally Posted by tvvoodoo

Well.... we're gonna try. picked up some charcoal metallic, see what happens anyway. Very thin burst.

Air brush burst tv ?

[J Lacey]

I've enjoyed watching this..........great job


Jeff

[stinkey]

Nice!!! Really like it.