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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