Here's to doing stuff twice

[DGNRepair]

I am doing a Paragon Jr style instrument. I grain filled it with a really dark filler, and the mahogany got dark. Ok, no big deal. Start doing hard oil finish, and it then turned into this deep dark chocolate brown that more or less hid the grain. Just finished sanding down the whole guitar to start the finish process again.

So here's to doing sh*t twice.

 

[dougk]

Welcome to my world buddy. Seems like every fawking guitar the last 3-4 months have been finished AT LEAST twice. LOL ask Steve! LOL

 

[ihavenofish]

i dont have the patience to do things twice. if i screw up, i just put it on the shelf for a while. then again, i dont have waiting customers.

 

[DGNRepair]

I'm already down a guitar for MGS because of pickup route screw up. That ones on the shelf for when I get back from Montreal. Lets just say, its gonna be a goldtop now.

Nature of what we do I guess. The Jr is grain filled AGAIN and drying. Sand and one more coat of filler, sand again then oil............

 

[ihavenofish]

my friend down is building some guitars for the show as well. ive never seen him screw up, but he said he had to strip and refinish one because he hated the colour. something about a green burst the client wanted. i never saw it. it was painted and stripped in one day when i was out. haha.

all my guitars get no grain filler and a clear wipe on finish so its hard to screw that part up. its the REST that i usually make a mess of!

 

[dougk]

I'm already down a guitar for MGS because of pickup route screw up. That ones on the shelf for when I get back from Montreal. Lets just say, its gonna be a goldtop now.

Nature of what we do I guess. The Jr is grain filled AGAIN and drying. Sand and one more coat of filler, sand again then oil............

Mike Potvin starts twice as many guitars for MGS as what he think's he'll need... then they slowly get whittled down to the ones he's happy with. Its like Survivor for guitars

 

[ihavenofish]

Mike Potvin starts twice as many guitars for MGS as what he think's he'll need... then they slowly get whittled down to the ones he's happy with. Its like Survivor for guitars

he can make them faster now at least, he bought one of them cnc routers like mine

(why is guitar building such a small world even though we all live so far away from each other?)

 

[DGNRepair]

Relaxing and having a whiskey now. This is sooooo much better than the turd brown it was this morning.

 

[emoney]

Heck, it could be worse. You could be me. I'm just working my butt off trying to get
good enough to only have to do something twice before it's done.

I'm down to about 5 times right now, but I'm hopeful to crack 4 in another month or so!

 

[Barnaby]

Well, I'm currently putting lacquer coats on the top of mine for the second time, so yeah - I hear ya!

Of course, I'm as amateur as amateur can be. Nice to know the best of the best pro builders are mortal too.

 

[Bob1]

Well, I'm currently putting lacquer coats on the top of mine for the second time, so yeah - I hear ya!

Of course, I'm as amateur as amateur can be. Nice to know the best of the best pro builders are mortal too.

You built a guitar purely from hand tools.

You are not amateur.

 

[DGNRepair]

You built a guitar purely from hand tools.

You are not amateur.

My thoughts exactly. So Cheers to you Barnaby ---

 

[dickjonesify]

I'm embarrassed to tell you how many finishing attempts my crummy SG project has had! I just put it down and walk away... after multiple times of trying to "quickly" fix what I had just done. One of these days I'll get it right or go completely postal!!

Cheers to doing things AT LEAST twice

 

[Claymore]

Relaxing and having a whiskey now. This is sooooo much better than the turd brown it was this morning.

I wish you would have posted the turd brown to compare against this - It looks great! I LOVE mahogany filled with darker filler. It really pops the grain. I'm gonna do one with black filler one day just for s&g.

 

[xsouldriverx]

i like how the grain "wisps" away at what seems like its the forearm cut.

 

[Reverend D]

Looks great now and I can relate as well. The stupid Tele I'm finishing now has had three different paint jobs and taken 25 years... (ok, so I'm not a fast learner, if I don't get it right this time, my Grandkids will need to finish it..)

Regards,

Don

 

[TKOjams]

I'm not posting my screwups anymore, I'ld be posting 3x as much as I do now.

 

[DGNRepair]

Screw ups happen to the best of us. Most don't like to share. This was a frustrating vent for me. I think I had too much dye in the filler because I kept adding mixing and changing the color. It got to the point where it was just dark. The extra dye in the filler stained the mahogany and you couldn't see the grain like you can now. As with most things, especially dye in grain filler, less is more.

Unfortunately I didn't get any picks of the turd brown version. This is how I pictured it in my head anyway. I ultimately put 3 drops of tobacco into a cup of mahogany colored filler and that was perfect.

 

[ihavenofish]

Screw ups happen to the best of us. Most don't like to share. This was a frustrating vent for me. I think I had too much dye in the filler because I kept adding mixing and changing the color. It got to the point where it was just dark. The extra dye in the filler stained the mahogany and you couldn't see the grain like you can now. As with most things, especially dye in grain filler, less is more.

Unfortunately I didn't get any picks of the turd brown version. This is how I pictured it in my head anyway. I ultimately put 3 drops of tobacco into a cup of mahogany colored filler and that was perfect.

the screw ups are the parts i like to see in threads from "pros". only because i want to see how they unscrew it. otherwise it gets a little boring with every build thread being the same - skip to the end and look at the pretty finished guitar.

 

[mdr40z]

looks good now, I do everything twice always looks better second time around