Moyra and Doreen continue to build…….

Doreen and Moyra live locally so are able to come for 1 day at a time. Most people live too far away, so they have to take a train or fly in, and so they prefer to come for 5 days at a time. Carol is brilliant at fitting everyone in.

This is just 1 day from an ongoing ‘build your own acoustic’ course they are on which is spread over 12 days. They have already done quite a lot and will return to finish their guitars soon. I’ll keep ya posted.

Rosie completes his second guitar-BYO 284

Rosie bought one of them new fangled variax things from ebay so we could use the electrics for his BYO. He took great delight in ripping the bits out, and building them into his new guitar was a worthwhile challenge. It’s a shame they don’t supply the kit separately, so custom builders could use them without resorting to vandalism like this, but hey….anyone want the old body and neck…it’s yours….anyone else want to do this on the course? Thanks to Rosie we now have all the patterns…..B******d.(joke)

The guitar is able to replicate all kinds of guitar sounds humbuckers, single coils, acoustics, archtop, 12 strings, resonator…..and loads more…..even a sitar! Hmm……almost sounds like ’em as well (not joke)…….there are some weirdy ones but quite a lot of them are really excellent. Great job Rosie – it was a pleasure ‘avin ya, and thanks to Billy who sprayed the guitar.

Rosie’s guitar

Rosie made this guitar on the Bailey BYO course, he wanted a full gloss paint job. As there is only enough time for a matt or oiled finish on the course he left it with me to spray. I had to do a little final sanding before sealer coats and I masked the binding before applying the colour coats. Then I masked off neck ready for front of headstock colour. After Spraying the colour I removed the masking and hung it up to dry. It is now ready for headstock logo and final coating of clear lacquer. I will be doing this next week.

Rosie’s Guitar

Following on from Part 1 – after removing the masking tape  a little work is necessary to remove any of the colour which has bled onto the binding. This is done by scraping with a blade.

After this I flatted the surface of the colour coat with 400-800g sandpaper, then the guitar body is ready for gloss.

The neck is also flatted back and then the water decal logo is applied.

The guitar is then sprayed with lacquer. Although it looks nice and shiny the guitar will benefit from a final sanding with really fine paper (1200-2000g) before being polished to a deep shine. The guitar will then be ready for Rosie to come back for the final assembly.