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[COMPLETED] Custom Explorer (Precision guitar kit)

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  • ChrisMusicChrisMusic Frets: 1133
    Congratulations to you and your good lady.

    Welcome to the world Chloe   :)

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  • RocknRollDaveRocknRollDave Frets: 6527
    Excellent news! Congratulations! =D>

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  • jd0272jd0272 Frets: 3867
    Great stuff!!! Congrats to you both and hope all are well.
    "You do all the 'widdly widdly' bits, and just leave the hard stuff to me."
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  • randomhandclapsrandomhandclaps Frets: 20521
    Congratulations and great to have a guitar to mark it.
    My muse is not a horse and art is not a race.
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  • guitarcookie1guitarcookie1 Frets: 464
    Congratulations :)

    It'll now be a good couple of years before you have the spare time to fit the logo mind ;)

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  • PVO_DavePVO_Dave Frets: 2379
    Finally some progress, after the inlays arriving smashed, the first replacement set never arriving and of course, a lot less free time than I once had, I have finally managed to route out the space for the headstock inlays

    Using a tiny router attachment, then a larger one in the Dremel, this is what happened:

    Getting everything lined up
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    First small routes
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    Then the cavity routed out
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    The ebony dust has been saved, ready to make up some black glue like gunk to fill in the gaps :)
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  • jd0272jd0272 Frets: 3867
    Yay! More pics! Reminds me, need to order paint...
    "You do all the 'widdly widdly' bits, and just leave the hard stuff to me."
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  • PVO_DavePVO_Dave Frets: 2379
    jd0272;364189" said:
    Yay! More pics! Reminds me, need to order paint...
    Did you order a kit in the end? :)

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  • jd0272jd0272 Frets: 3867
    PVO_Dave said:
    jd0272;364189" said:
    Yay! More pics! Reminds me, need to order paint...
    Did you order a kit in the end? :)



    No, I haven't as yet. Sent the dude an email re; can thoust do a chunky '58 neck carve, didn't bother to reply, although the cheeky fckr stuck me on the mailing list.

    Ordered paint.
    "You do all the 'widdly widdly' bits, and just leave the hard stuff to me."
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  • PVO_DavePVO_Dave Frets: 2379
    Small update, which will start leading into a bigger one, I dropped the guitar with CA Guitarworks yesterday, the painting will start very soon :)

    Photos Chris shared from his Facebook page:
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  • PVO_DavePVO_Dave Frets: 2379
    edited November 2014
    Couple of progress shots from last week (Pictures by CA Guitarworks):

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    Body and neck sealed and sanded. Neck now glued and clamped.

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    MOP logo glue in
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  • PVO_DavePVO_Dave Frets: 2379
    Sealer coats going on :)

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  • usedtobeusedtobe Frets: 3842
    Getting exciting, now! Keep em coming!
     so if you fancy a reissue of a guitar they never made in a colour they never used then it probably isn't too overpriced.

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  • jd0272jd0272 Frets: 3867
    Faster.

    Good lad  ;)
    "You do all the 'widdly widdly' bits, and just leave the hard stuff to me."
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  • DeadmanDeadman Frets: 3924
    Looking good. Wouldn't mind a shot at painting that myself.
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  • PVO_DavePVO_Dave Frets: 2379
    Soon as Chris posts progress shots, I will share. Can't wait to see this all painted up :D
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  • jd0272jd0272 Frets: 3867
    Deadman;432937" said:
    Looking good. Wouldn't mind a shot at painting that myself.


    You'd just change yer mind ;)
    "You do all the 'widdly widdly' bits, and just leave the hard stuff to me."
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  • jd0272jd0272 Frets: 3867
    PVO_Dave;433074" said:
    Soon as Chris posts progress shots, I will share. Can't wait to see this all painted up :D
    Us too :)
    "You do all the 'widdly widdly' bits, and just leave the hard stuff to me."
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  • DeadmanDeadman Frets: 3924
    jd0272 said:
    Deadman;432937" said:
    Looking good. Wouldn't mind a shot at painting that myself.


    You'd just change yer mind ;)
    Fair shout  :D
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  • ChrisMusicChrisMusic Frets: 1133
    But at least you would know that it would look brilliant in every incarnation   :D

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