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I’ve done about 6-7 coats of lacquer so far and still ongoing with it – it is getting harder and more glossy but still a bit more to do. (I’ve got through most of a can of the larger size of Halfords lacquer already though!) So there’s not a lot of progress to report really, [...]

Finally we’ve had some decent weather again and I’ve been able to finish the spray paint job on the body! After painting the darkest squares (previous post) and masking the horizontal stripes only to do half of the “medium” coloured squares – I removed the horizontal stripes, put the vertical ones back on, and did [...]

After 2 coats of paint (3 in parts) the silver colour on the body is finished and sanded smooth etc. Next step is to mask it off ready to do the design using the darker colour!

At the moment it looks like it will just be stripes, don’t worry though as it won’t end up as [...]

We had more nice weather suited to doing ‘outdoor’ stuff today. So as well as doing another coat of paint on the body, I now have the headstock complete! This was done by tracing round the “paddle” (blank) headstock including the holes for the tuners, then drawing the required shape onto paper and transferring it [...]

The primer is now complete – there were a couple of bits I wasn’t happy with before which were sanded and re-done, also filled in the few remaining bits where the primer wasn’t as thick as it should be. Doesn’t really look significantly different (from a distance) so no further photos, but this means the [...]