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Be gone white shiny plastic dots. Made new dots with Fimo clay - Sand. Drilled the mould into 5 mm steel. Turned out mostly good, but I don't recommend using fimo - as you sand everything flat the "clay" holds onto fragments and colours the dot further. Or maybe let the Fimo harden even mo...

sizzlingbadger wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 2:54 pm None of my amps need frets.

Oh yeah, wrong thread LOL

And now onto the 62 RI Strat. Taller frets and clay dots.

Smashing out the refrets on a wet Sat/Sun.

73 LP Custom, 72 SG. Both with ebony boards to keep me honest.

Hotel booked.

jeremyb wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 10:25 am

What's a "cinema"?

Joe Bonamassa Amos pickups. Not because I like Joe...but because dang, those Amos pickups sound great. Played a custom with some recently. Boom.
Nice little thing is, they're going into my Korina V (which is what Amos is).

borge wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 2:36 pm .../ 
 I will ditch the janky headphone amp but can't find a single device (asides other headphone amps) that'll replace it. But I think running ~3k of pedals into a $15 clone of a $75 behringer adds a certain charm. 

And the Ye Olde World Charm is aweosome.

Well done.

These models were both shockers when introduced. 83 Korina V and 76 Explorer LE.

They look pretty cool now.

Nice work on the colour

Reg18 wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 9:01 am

jeremyb wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 8:56 am Damn that looks tasty Reg!!

Once I figure out the swirl marks issue I’ll do some proper pics and post in my other thread.
I just had to put it together to see how it sounded though!

I’d be buffing the swirls out if they’re not too deep

I spray myself. I’ve rattle canned in the past to good effect though. And to do a top only, that would be easy as.

Wairau Paint Centre will tint nitro and put it in a rattle can. Sit the can in a bowl of warm water before spraying. Fantastic! Do you by chance know what a can goes for? A lot of car paint dealers (LinkUp Paint for eg) will do this. But often, they wont have nitro. I purchase nitro from Versatile ...

Heat guns are the best way (don't melt the binding!), but sanding is also good (but labour intensive, messy etc). Acetone will f#ck things up, ultimately. Paint stripper works too, but requires a really good rinse in meths afterwards, which is logistically challenging. Hmmm, when you stain wood, and...

Going back to 5751’s, they’re a magic tube in the right position. I’ve cooled down many a hot headed amp with these, and not just in preamp - phase inverters also.