The Emeraldcaster Project (aka Son of Meloncaster) - Page 11

Chaparral · November 3rd, 2007, 12:05 AM

Buckster,

Since you're the Henry Ford of partscasters...let me ask you this. What do you think the difference is, if any, in the sound one of your sparkle guitars with the thick fiinish as opposed to one you might build with a "normal" finish? Thanks.

Buckocaster51 · November 3rd, 2007, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Chaparral

Buckster,

Since you're the Henry Ford of partscasters...let me ask you this. What do you think the difference is, if any, in the sound one of your sparkle guitars with the thick fiinish as opposed to one you might build with a "normal" finish? Thanks.

'enry Ford?

'enry would make them in any color you wanted...as long as it is black.

But you want to know if I think there is a difference in sound between the guitars I have put together with "thin" nitro finishes and the ones that I have applied with a spatula?

Nope.

Once I get them painted, I forget what wood they are made from.

The onliest difference I can tell in the necks is shape, radius, and fret type and I can't tell a difference in sound caused by any of them...it's all tactile. (But then I spend a night each week standing next to the drum riser!)

Pickups, cap & pot values are where it's at with these babies.

'enry Ford?

Taipan · November 3rd, 2007, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Buckocaster51

Pickups, cap & pot values are where it's at with these babies.

Care to share your recipe?

Buckocaster51 · November 3rd, 2007, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Taipan

Care to share your recipe?

no secret

Keystone pickups
250k volume & tone pots
.047uF caps
and that other little resistor and cap for the low volume things

of course Nocaster pickups are awfully good too

no telling how you would like this setup, but it certainly does everything I want it to do

one of these days I am going to put a humbucker in the neck position...but you know, somehow, those never LOOK quite right to me.

Buckocaster51 · November 3rd, 2007, 12:53 PM

Nice day today.

Shot another coat (went over everything twice) of preheated DEFT.

Now she's hanging in the sunlight.

Nothing like sunlight to dry stuff.

The plan, and you all know how long plans can last, is to shoot another coat tonight, and a couple more tomorrow. Then I will let it dry for several weeks and see what it looks like.

Don't worry though. I won't be bored. This afternoon I am going to route a double-neck and single neck for binding.

Gonna try to do something a little like this here...

emailhot · November 3rd, 2007, 03:44 PM

Hey there Buck. she looks fantastic. just a few Questions. are the rubyflakes that you have the same size as the emerald flakes? and are you going to shoot a test strip (like the one you shot at the end of themeloncaster) through your fancy new spray gun to see if it will work and give us all another taste to wet our appetites even more?(not that we need them wet anymore than they already are, but it doesn't hurt to ask. does it??

Buckocaster51 · November 3rd, 2007, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by emailhot

Hey there Buck. she looks fantastic. just a few Questions. are the rubyflakes that you have the same size as the emerald flakes? and are you going to shoot a test strip (like the one you shot at the end of themeloncaster) through your fancy new spray gun to see if it will work and give us all another taste to wet our appetites even more?(not that we need them wet anymore than they already are, but it doesn't hurt to ask. does it??

Thanks much.

Flakes are the same size. 0.015 hex as the emerald.

10-4 on the test strip.

Painted the flipside of the purple test chunk with red KRYLON and these are the flakes we're gonna use.

Oh my!

The flake lays down nicely!

The people who know what they're talking about, knew what they were talking about when they told me to do it this way!

But like every sparkle finish...it is darn difficult to photograph.

Of course, it also looks like I might need a $29.95 sprayer for each color of flake I ever do! That stuff gets EVERYWHERE and it is VERY difficult to clean up.

Oh well, I guess that is just the cost of doing this stuff.

By the way, I left the small (1.4mm) tip in and it seemed to work pretty well.

Also got an idea this afternoon for the ULTIMATE Buckocaster. If I can pull it off, it will flat out have everybody drooling!

Buckocaster51 · November 3rd, 2007, 08:28 PM

While I was out in the garage today I grabbed some bodies from the rafters and cut the channels for the binding.

It went pretty well. But I'll tell you, if I do much more of this, I am going to have to get a better set of cutters. Wrapping sticky aluminum tape around guide bearings to adjust the depths of cut works...to a limit...but it sure chews up time!

The outer bodies are destined to become Rubycasters. Checkerboard on the front, plain back.

The body in the middle is going to be a silver (or champagne - maybe) sparklecaster with checkerboards on both the front and the back. I have done one of them yet. It sort of scares me, there are some AWFULLY sharp corners on the back. The front is nearly impossible, the back is going to be a challenge.

If you look real close, you can see that the ash body (the lighter one) is double cut for binding on both the front and the back.

Should be fun!

ehawley · November 3rd, 2007, 09:10 PM

BUCKO!!! Your a WILD MAN!!!

THE KING OF FLAKE!

andy__woods · November 3rd, 2007, 09:32 PM

you gonna make some red slippers to go with the ruby tele?

need2retire · November 3rd, 2007, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Buckocaster51

Also got an idea this afternoon for the ULTIMATE Buckocaster. If I can pull it off, it will flat out have everybody drooling!

Can't wait ... what is it? Let us in.

Taipan · November 3rd, 2007, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Buckocaster51

While I was out in the garage today I grabbed some bodies from the rafters.

I wish I could say that "While I was out in the garage today I grabbed some bodies from the rafters". I wonder how many of wish they could say that, "Hey while I was out in the garage I grabbed some bodies from the rafters" Or Kinda like "Hey grab me a beer when you are in there "it could be "Hey Bucko while your in there grab me one of them there bodies....."

emailhot · November 3rd, 2007, 11:16 PM

Holy cow Buck!! when I said wet our appetites I didn't think I would drool this much. three bodies? man you're killin me. (the kind of death I don't mind though)

Buckocaster51 · November 4th, 2007, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Taipan

I wish I could say that "While I was out in the garage today I grabbed some bodies from the rafters". I wonder how many of wish they could say that, "Hey while I was out in the garage I grabbed some bodies from the rafters" Or Kinda like "Hey grab me a beer when you are in there "it could be "Hey Bucko while your in there grab me one of them there bodies....."

Yeah, I know what it sounds like...but I spent a couple of 90/90* during the summer making them. Only have one more single neck out there now. I may have to round up some more wood and try to make a few more before the weather closes in.

It's not like the rafters are FULL of them...

*90°F & 90%RH = a nice upper midwest day!

Buckocaster51 · November 4th, 2007, 10:12 AM

Hmmmmmm...less than 2 months 'till Chrismas...

gets me to thinking!

emailhot · November 4th, 2007, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Buckocaster51

Hmmmmmm...less than 2 months 'till Chrismas...

gets me to thinking!

hmmmm... the santacaster?the Christmastreecaster? the sleighbellcaster? anyother clues as to whats running in your mind?

urizen · November 4th, 2007, 10:34 AM

OOOoooohhh man, suddenly IT hit me!!!

Stop me if you've heard it b4, but....COPPERSPARKLE----is there such a thing? Since someone else awready brought up Sandy Claws, LIE to me if you have to, because I WANT to believe!!

COPPERCASTER?

Buckocaster51 · November 4th, 2007, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by urizen

OOOoooohhh man, suddenly IT hit me!!!

Stop me if you've heard it b4, but....COPPERSPARKLE----is there such a thing? Since someone else awready brought up Sandy Claws, LIE to me if you have to, because I WANT to believe!!

COPPERCASTER?

I think I might actually have some copper flake around here...and if I don't I know where it can be found!

How's that for tempting?

I agree, it would look great.

Buckocaster51 · November 4th, 2007, 02:01 PM

One thing that I notice between the green and the red, is that the flakes in the green are much more specular. At least a few of them, because of the way they were applied, are lying at really crazy angles. That accounts for the random glints in the pictures.

The red flakes, because they were sprayed on, are all laying flat. Much less specular. Much less glintzy.

Need to figure out a way to get some more depth to that red finish.

Ideas anybody?

getbent · November 4th, 2007, 02:09 PM

do them the way you did the green ones, no?

Taipan · November 4th, 2007, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Buckocaster51

Call me goofy, but I am going to see what this does with those big flakes.

Worse case scenario is that I have to get the acetone out and take it all off.

"That's Goofy!"

Maybe that wasn't so Goofy after all !! Sift um !!

November 3rd, 2007, 12:53 PM	#405 (permalink)
Buckocaster51 Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Iowa USA Age: 56 Posts: 4,960 1 Photos	Nice day today. Shot another coat (went over everything twice) of preheated DEFT. Now she's hanging in the sunlight. Nothing like sunlight to dry stuff. The plan, and you all know how long plans can last, is to shoot another coat tonight, and a couple more tomorrow. Then I will let it dry for several weeks and see what it looks like. Don't worry though. I won't be bored. This afternoon I am going to route a double-neck and single neck for binding. Gonna try to do something a little like this here... __________________ "If you can't say something nice... don't say nothing at all." - Thumper the Rabbit "An awfully lot of time can be wasted waiting for the right time." - Gunsmoke's Doc Adams

November 3rd, 2007, 03:44 PM	#406 (permalink)
emailhot Tele-Meister Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Leduc, Alberta, Canada Age: 35 Posts: 198 3 Photos	Hey there Buck. she looks fantastic. just a few Questions. are the rubyflakes that you have the same size as the emerald flakes? and are you going to shoot a test strip (like the one you shot at the end of themeloncaster) through your fancy new spray gun to see if it will work and give us all another taste to wet our appetites even more?(not that we need them wet anymore than they already are, but it doesn't hurt to ask. does it?? __________________ Ed Mailhot Modded Squier Vintage Mod now w/4-way and gfs pickups Aria Ad-28c W/b-band nady wireless Vox DA-15 &Crate Palomino V3212

November 3rd, 2007, 08:28 PM	#408 (permalink)
Buckocaster51 Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Iowa USA Age: 56 Posts: 4,960 1 Photos	While I was out in the garage today I grabbed some bodies from the rafters and cut the channels for the binding. It went pretty well. But I'll tell you, if I do much more of this, I am going to have to get a better set of cutters. Wrapping sticky aluminum tape around guide bearings to adjust the depths of cut works...to a limit...but it sure chews up time! The outer bodies are destined to become Rubycasters. Checkerboard on the front, plain back. The body in the middle is going to be a silver (or champagne - maybe) sparklecaster with checkerboards on both the front and the back. I have done one of them yet. It sort of scares me, there are some AWFULLY sharp corners on the back. The front is nearly impossible, the back is going to be a challenge. If you look real close, you can see that the ash body (the lighter one) is double cut for binding on both the front and the back. Should be fun! __________________ "If you can't say something nice... don't say nothing at all." - Thumper the Rabbit "An awfully lot of time can be wasted waiting for the right time." - Gunsmoke's Doc Adams

November 3rd, 2007, 09:32 PM	#410 (permalink)
andy__woods Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Michigan Age: 23 Posts: 1,139 60 Photos	you gonna make some red slippers to go with the ruby tele? __________________ -- Andy "Woods" Crowder --

November 3rd, 2007, 11:16 PM	#413 (permalink)
emailhot Tele-Meister Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Leduc, Alberta, Canada Age: 35 Posts: 198 3 Photos	Holy cow Buck!! when I said wet our appetites I didn't think I would drool this much. three bodies? man you're killin me. (the kind of death I don't mind though) __________________ Ed Mailhot Modded Squier Vintage Mod now w/4-way and gfs pickups Aria Ad-28c W/b-band nady wireless Vox DA-15 &Crate Palomino V3212

November 3rd, 2007, 12:05 AM	#401 (permalink)
Chaparral Tele-Meister Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Kentucky Posts: 133	Buckster, Since you're the Henry Ford of partscasters...let me ask you this. What do you think the difference is, if any, in the sound one of your sparkle guitars with the thick fiinish as opposed to one you might build with a "normal" finish? Thanks.

November 3rd, 2007, 09:10 PM	#409 (permalink)
ehawley Tele-Holic Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Keyport, New Jersey Age: 55 Posts: 958 48 Photos	BUCKO!!! Your a WILD MAN!!! THE KING OF FLAKE!

November 4th, 2007, 10:12 AM	#415 (permalink)
Buckocaster51 Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Iowa USA Age: 56 Posts: 4,960 1 Photos	Hmmmmmm...less than 2 months 'till Chrismas... gets me to thinking! __________________ "If you can't say something nice... don't say nothing at all." - Thumper the Rabbit "An awfully lot of time can be wasted waiting for the right time." - Gunsmoke's Doc Adams

November 4th, 2007, 10:34 AM	#417 (permalink)
urizen Tele-Meister Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: SoCal Posts: 298	OOOoooohhh man, suddenly IT hit me!!! Stop me if you've heard it b4, but....COPPERSPARKLE----is there such a thing? Since someone else awready brought up Sandy Claws, LIE to me if you have to, because I WANT to believe!! COPPERCASTER?

November 4th, 2007, 02:01 PM	#419 (permalink)
Buckocaster51 Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Iowa USA Age: 56 Posts: 4,960 1 Photos	One thing that I notice between the green and the red, is that the flakes in the green are much more specular. At least a few of them, because of the way they were applied, are lying at really crazy angles. That accounts for the random glints in the pictures. The red flakes, because they were sprayed on, are all laying flat. Much less specular. Much less glintzy. Need to figure out a way to get some more depth to that red finish. Ideas anybody? __________________ "If you can't say something nice... don't say nothing at all." - Thumper the Rabbit "An awfully lot of time can be wasted waiting for the right time." - Gunsmoke's Doc Adams

November 4th, 2007, 02:09 PM	#420 (permalink)
getbent Moderator Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: San Benito County, California Age: 48 Posts: 9,132 37 Photos	do them the way you did the green ones, no? __________________ Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.

November 4th, 2007, 02:30 PM	#422 (permalink)
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