Sometimes it's a breeze, but sometimes - it's a...

Welcome back blog readers! I trust you had a fun and wonderful Christmas and New Year. Now, straight into the action! 39, the LP copy, has been a bit boring really. I'm using DingoTone, an all natural stain on the quilted maple veneer. It takes about 5 - 7 days to cure (with temperatures 25 degrees or higher mind you - something that hasn't happened too often around here in S.W. Queensland). So this picture looks remarkably like the last posts, but I have darkened the outside with another colour viz:gold. So when I get the shiny coats on, it should turn into a nice gold to yellow burst.

Now for the Flash! Exciting news at last. The red paint has cured and so I masked up the guitar and gave the centre stripe the once over with "Diamond White" a DupliColor colour. Never mix and match. I'll probably end up giving it at least three coats and then I'll move onto the thinner stripes.

Now for the bad news... I had a guitar called the Boss (named after Bruce Springsteens nickname, obviously). I wanted to improve it by replacing the plastic nut with a bone one. In retrospect, I probably should have read abit more on how to do that. Instead when I got the plastic nut out, a chunk of maple came with it. So I did something really stupid. I took out a chisel and tried to fix the problem. Then I hit the truss rod. Then I got really mad. Realising that I had effectivly broke the neck (which I thought looked really cool), I started taking the guitar apart. I will not show you the 'neck', but I will show you the body. I think I'm just going to make it into a clock (One of my good friends over the interwebs, 4DGuitars, does this, and they look cool.) If you want it now, as is, or when it's a clock, make me an offer.