Whats on your work bench?

[LightWingStudios]

I finally (I turned 52 last December) put together the Flying V kit my kids got me for my 50th birthday!

Yes, my kids painted the design.

Miraculously, my soldering job took. It still needs a setup and a few finishing touches, but it works.

One part of the setup will be new tuners. The ones that came in the kit are inaccurate and alternately tight and loose, with a hint of grinding. In short, they suck like a sextet of Shop Vacs.

I got mine off Amazon for the slew of Firefly Guitars I have now. Cheap and pretty good too!

https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/C3F4 ... f_=ast_bln

[solteroblues]

This one scratch build is taking me forever, mainly because i can only work on it a few minutes at a time. Now it's to the stage where there's a lot of waiting in between steps, like letting coats and epoxy cure.

Here's the top after a seal coat of shellac. I'll sand this back before I do any clear coats.



Next is the headstock. I did the fretboard inlays by hand with a router and just tracing the shape of the inlays onto the board. I think it came out pretty well, but I thought, "That's a pain, let's try a laser!" so I did the headstock with a laser. First the outline just to see if it looked good...



Then filled out



Then I bought some mother of pearl in a super thin sheet so the laser could cut it out... First attempt didn't go as well as I had hoped, the "Solteroblues" was too thin, so the laser disintegrated it, and the eagle feathers broke off around where I let the laser overheat the material...



So while I work at fixing the burn power of my laser, I decided to do an epoxy fill with mica powder... still waiting on that to cure

[deeaa]

Wow that's a real nice axe! Gorgeous!

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[andrewsrea]

An amplifier that 'got away' from me, was a Marshall small-head 2553 Silver Jubilee 50w. Well, I decided to build my own starting with an Alexander Jubilee clone PCB (which is really just a modified Guv'nor pedal). My mods include 50w / 100w mode (like the real amp) with a bi-color LED to indicate on/off and mode, asymeterical clipping and interstage filtering like the real amp.

I call it 'AMI 2553 Silver Jubilee'

Today was the functional test and this thing goes from John Sykes' Whitesnake tone, to Slash's AFD tone depending on the IC I use. Lighter settings will easily comp AC/DC, Zeppelin, etc. Dead quiet, until I hit the volume and then it roars! Like a real amp, it can be boosted by another pedal. Really sounds authentic. Musch better than the Alexander Jubilee videos, which are great.

Doing the Cerakote grey paint and laser graphics this coming week and will post when finished. in the meanwhile, top and gut shots:

[glasshand]

Finally got around to replacing the cheapy tuning machines on my taxi tribute guitar with some Grovers. One of the nice things about a guitar with a lot of wear on it is that you don't care too much if your work is neat!

[deeaa]

Decided to improve one of my Vs...it was eggshell white, with a Yamaha 24 fret half scalloped (towards the end) neck. Never was quite happy with the finish quality, and there's barely enough room in the bridge to intonate so I got a wider bridge for it and refinished it in red. Also the scallop work was a little ugly so I put in new SS frets and reshaped the scalloping to be pretty and a little deeper past 14th fret.

Hard work, with the scallops removing the frets ripped out nasty shards from the board, so I spent hours working on it to fill the holes with a rosewood powder/baking soda and superglue mixture and filing and sanding it nice...now just need to file the fret ends and do a final leveling and fixing up some crowns where I need to level them a bit, and I'll also do a few coats of tru oil on the body to deepen the color and protect it, and then buff and polish the whole thing. It was a very nice guitar before but now it's gonna be superb. Probably I'll have to make a new nut too.

Besides that, I have a superstrat that has a fractured neck, very very thin neck and it's not fractured open but pretty nasty...I'll have to use a super thin drill to make a few holes in the fracture area and inject titebond into the fractures, and apply some pressure in the area and then hope it'll be firm and then sand and refinish the neck. An interesting project for sure. Not 100% sure it'll succeed but the neck is scrap as it is now so I can only improve on it really. If it fails, well, nothing lost.

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