thanks! i'm looking forward to getting it completed, only thing is it's getting a bit chilly to be painting nitro in the shed. i'm hoping i won't have to hang on til spring to get it painted...Thom wrote:Looks really good so far Stewart.
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it's a 22.5 i think.mage wrote:yea, that looks really great.
what scale is the neck?
and dang, if I'd known you needed some conversion bushings, I could have sent you some I was using with those tuners (the ones I gave you were the originals that came with those tuners).
um, yeah, the conversion bushings i ordered fit the holes in the neck but the heads of the tuners don't fit through the bushing! i'm flummoxed, as they were listed as being for klusons. i checked with a vintage kluson thinking maybe the measurements were different, but nope- didn't fit either. will see if i can get a refund.
could i have the conversion ones you were using? i'll sort you out for cash/postage etc.
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robert(original) wrote:you shouldd have asked me! i have.... 29 vintage sized coversion bushings! and i only need 5 of what i have! i would have basically given them to you!!!
still very ace!
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ah well, never mind. they were pretty cheap anyways.
i got them on eventually, i had to enlarge the holes in the headstock ever so slightly to get the bushings in, and for some reason the third tuner overlapped the one next to it slightly, so i had to file the sides down a fraction. i suspect whoever drilled the bigger holes in the first place made a bit of a cunt of it and one of them was ever so slightly off.
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i'm hoping to make a start on the colour coats on monday, depending how cold it is in my parents' state of the art spray booth shed.
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That is really good, possibly a cheaper outcome than Halfords actually. Is that in Aerosol form or are you applying it with an air sprayer?stewart wrote:got it from manchester guitar tech. pricey (£30 all in for the colour and clearcoat) but i think the results are generally much better than halfords type stuff.Fran wrote:Where d'ya get the Nitro from? <3 Dakota.
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glad to see you are back on this one! Lookin' good!
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