Finishing the Singlecut

The top is dyed and the first clear coats of finish are sprayed on
Because its top will be sunburst I dyed the maple top. After that the first coats of finish were sprayed on.

After spraying on a few coats of finish, the final colour is put on the control covers and the back
Then the top was masked and the back of the guitar was coloured. The photo shows the wooden control and tremolo covers. If you want to see what they looked like before, go back to the top. They are in the bottom right hand corner.

The top got its final sunburst finish
Finally I sprayed the sunburst on the top. After that the instrument was sprayed with clear coats of finish. Between spraying the coats have to be sanded which is why the headstock looks kind of misty.
Now it only takes a couple of coats and the instrument is ready for its hardware and pickups!

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Fractured Collarbone

collar bone with bolted on plate

Maybe you wondered why I haven’t posted anything in such a long time.

Thing is, I couldn’t really work for a while. In spring I broke my collar bone. Though the fractured bone had been fixed with some heavy metal the surgeons bolted to onto it, I wasn’t allowed to lift more than a kilo with it.

How do you work on a guitar if you’re not allowed to apply more force than 10 Newton with one arm? First you think: ‘What the heck!’, and you do as much as you have work. Then your shoulder starts aching and when you visit your physiotherapist the next time she tells you not on keep on going like you did ’cause it might take even longer to heal. That really scares you, so you fiddle around with your 3d printer instead and you update your website…

Luckily that’s all in the past now and I’m back at work and hopefully adding new posts more often than I did.

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