The Emeraldcaster Project (aka Son of Meloncaster)

[Tommy Tourbus]

Originally Posted by SatelliteOrders

Chris Isaak's guitarist has a mother-of-pearl covered Tele. I think it had a pickguard, if only to have those curves on the front. I hesitate to think of what a clownbarf-on-clownbarf Tele would look like. Maybe white-on-clownbarf?

I'd do a clear guard

[Buckocaster51]

I keep telling you kids, when the entire top is made of a pickguard, you don't need no steenkin' pickguard.

[Buckocaster51]

With the binding pretty much looking pretty, it is time to put caution (or in this case, high humidity) to the wind and see if I can start putting some clear on this bad boy.



By golly, I can.

The binding "gap" is beginning to go away.

The left side of that picture looks eerily like a close up photo of the surface a Mercury I saw when I was just a little Buckocaster.



It is building nicely.

This is what I am working on between coats.



Remember, paisley is the new beige!

My 10 minutes is up.

Time for another coat.

[doster]

I never really liked black teles...until now. Wow, you guys blow me away!

[Buckocaster51]

Originally Posted by doster

I never really liked black teles...until now. Wow, you guys blow me away!

I tell you, somebody here has some real talent. All I did was take a photo of a checkerboard Tele in black primer...and Shazaaaaammmmm!

I hope somebody tries one of those.

It would be nice to see it come to life.

It's alive!

Alive I tell you!

[Buckocaster51]

Speaking of stripper dust...



Remember a television show where a dysfunctional family argued and fought while they assembled motorcycles?

One season, everything they did was "sick."

But in a "good" way.

Well, this body is SICK!

As it hangs there it has three coats of blender over the flake with two coats of 2-part catalytic goop. Everything doubled up over the binding.

Bob the Painter would not be happy with all of that clear. There will probably be two more coats.

Pook alla zarny, Einstein, Newton, rah, rah, rah...I'll tell you one thing buckos...the Bunny Suit is warm out in the paint "booth."

Now if Allparts would just get a container of TMO-V necks over here.

Unless somebody has a better idea.

Or something like that.

[Buckocaster51]

Just picked up the first suicidal bug of the day. I think I got him out with no serious damage.

Poor little fellow was dead though.

My flake supplier told me once that many people mix some holographic flake in.

I am going to do that on the next one.

That will be sick!

[axmaker]

Originally Posted by Buckocaster51

We're starting to gather up some "long lead" items for a couple of projects that are coming up that are going to be way outside of the box.

The color of flake is up for grabs. Time to make a test card.



I've painted half of a piece of 80 card stock with some of that vintage KRYLON Gloss Black.

Then I spray on a REAL THICK COAT of DEFT and sprinkle some sparkles on it from a little sieve.



Shake the extra off and goop on some more DEFT.

No I can see what it looks like against both WHITE and BLACK backgrounds.

Kelly, the neighbor girl that keeps track of my sparkle guitars for me likes 44P.

It looks like a bright shiny penny.

My mind is still out. (Gee, what a surprise! Might have to do one of each!)

And now you know.

got the samples in the mail today. 27P is definately the match...

[Buckocaster51]

Can you imagine how SICK that is going to look with the checkerboards?

Way sick!

Too sick to talk about actually.

[Nick JD]

Originally Posted by Buckocaster51

My flake supplier told me once that many people mix some holographic flake in.

That will be sick!

The DEA need to crack down on your supplier, your sparkle addiction is out of control!

Okay, it is pointy - but OH YEAH, look what Google found. Holographic! Holographic! Holographic! Go Bucko!

[hondo76]

Originally Posted by Nick JD

The DEA need to crack down on your supplier, your sparkle addiction is out of control!

Okay, it is pointy - but OH YEAH, look what Google found. Holographic! Holographic! Holographic! Go Bucko!

i will forgive that it is on a pointy guitar but that is SICK to quot the rich motorcycle buiding family

[hondo76]

oh my god it is almost 4:30 in the morning iv been reading this thread since 11.30 but i cant seem to leave thers so much to learn

buckocaster have u embedded mind control on this fourm
if so please give my mind back i need it for things like playing chords other than A,talking to wemon in words besides grunts, and remembering what all those knobs on my amp are for.

[Buckocaster51]

Originally Posted by Nick JD

The DEA need to crack down on your supplier, your sparkle addiction is out of control!

You have no idea how out of control it is.

I was at the bank he other day.

When I left, I took a look at the counter.

Little sparkles dancing in the sunlight.

I had left my mark!

That is some pointy guitar.

I've always wondered what they (pointy guitars) play like.

Cheers!

[robt57]

Originally Posted by Buckocaster51

That is some pointy guitar.

I've always wondered what they (pointy guitars) play like.

Cheers!

Fast necks, chunky frets, strings locked down at both ends, the balance of the dinky style body, basswood [usually] and hot humbuckers...

I never tried putting different PUPs in the Heartfield Talon Shredder when I had it, But sparkly it wudant...

Played well, It sure did!

[Vizcaster]

Waiting for a C.S.I. episode where they track down the source of trace evidence stripper dust.

How would you go about getting a stenciled pattern like J-Twang suggests? Would you have to hand-carve the edges clean like you do with the purfling cutter on the checkerboards, or is there some way to cleanly mask off an intricate pattern with this stuff before applying the sparkles? Or would you have to sparkle the entire top then mask off and shoot black over it?

[Buckocaster51]

Originally Posted by Vizcaster

How would you go about getting a stenciled pattern like J-Twang suggests? Would you have to hand-carve the edges clean like you do with the purfling cutter on the checkerboards, or is there some way to cleanly mask off an intricate pattern with this stuff before applying the sparkles? Or would you have to sparkle the entire top then mask off and shoot black over it?

Now those are some good questions.

The guy that does the paint for the motorcycle family that argues and fights on the electric television all of the time uses lots of stencils.

I think they are cut much like vinyl signs at sign shops.

If I were going to try something like that I would hang around a motorcycle painter (like Bob) for a bit and do some brain picking.

The binding, I would do like all of the other binding.

I'm a Luddite at heart.

[Buckocaster51]

I had to go in to work today and could only think about working on this. Maybe tonight, between the thunderstorms, we will able to get the last clear on it.



The silver flake picks up every color around it. Inside the paintbooth it is the color of fine OSB. Outside it turns sky blue. (When the sky is blue that is.)

Upon closer inspection



we see that it is very rough.

It needs to be smoothed out. I'm not sure I can really do much sanding to it.



So we will get out the 3M green pad and scuff it up so we can put some more on it.

New goop won't stick to the shiny finish of the old goop. It depends upon a mechanical bound. If we leave it shiny, the next coat will all fall off the first time it gets hit by a rock or bug.

If you know what I mean!

[Buckocaster51]

Even the sides get scuffed.



You can see how the bindings are leveling up with the flake.

Like we said, it will work itself out.



It surely doesn't look like much right now.

But like Scott says, "It's all good."

[Nick JD]

Originally Posted by Buckocaster51

I've always wondered what they (pointy guitars) play like.

Cheers!

In the days of my hormone-raging, pimply youth (late eighties, early nineties) I must admit to being the owner of a pointy guitar or two . In that world, tone seekers look to electronics for that particular crunch - that perfect tone comes not from the wood, or the humming pickups and fencepost saddles. The pickups should be hot, because it's easier to get the corresponding distortion. But the guitar's number one attribute is that it should be easy to play ... low action, stable tremolo, flat fretboard, thin neck. I don't think I ever had a tonewood discussion and I thought twang was something 14 year old boys did in the bathroom.

I find pointy guitars easy to play, but rather soulless. Somehow I just can't imagine Bucko playing:

[robt57]

Maybe if it had a pound [or two?] of sparkle on it, Buck WOOD. ;)