Well that was eventful.
Since I posted that I managed to get all the finish off the back, and most of the front face of the headstock too. Weirdly, the finish on the back was super thin, and didn't take long at all to get it all off. But the front face of the headstock is taking ages.
After getting the black and the decal off, there was a layer of amber underneath and now i'm slowly sanding through that. It's tough going, They built it up really thick and the 60 grit sandpaper doesn't seem to be doing a whole lot. I'm gonna tackle it again on sunday, and probably rout the correct P90 cavity in the body as well. I think I might also start carving the body. Or at least the parts that I have no doubts about, like the belly contour and the contoured heel/lower horn rear section. The top will have to wait for a while still.
Also I got some hardware and the graphtech nut in. I did a test fit for the graphtech nut and did the ol' half-a-pencil trick on the frets to check how much I'd have to file down the string slots. Turns out... none. They are absolutely perfectly where they should be. And the radius matches the neck radius too, so I literally have to do nothing except maybe final shaping of the nut (but not the slots) to take off all the sharp edges and get it flush with the board on either side of the nut slot. Cool stuff.
For now I'm content with the day's progress and I'm gonna chill and catch up on Vikings.
Since I posted that I managed to get all the finish off the back, and most of the front face of the headstock too. Weirdly, the finish on the back was super thin, and didn't take long at all to get it all off. But the front face of the headstock is taking ages.
After getting the black and the decal off, there was a layer of amber underneath and now i'm slowly sanding through that. It's tough going, They built it up really thick and the 60 grit sandpaper doesn't seem to be doing a whole lot. I'm gonna tackle it again on sunday, and probably rout the correct P90 cavity in the body as well. I think I might also start carving the body. Or at least the parts that I have no doubts about, like the belly contour and the contoured heel/lower horn rear section. The top will have to wait for a while still.
Also I got some hardware and the graphtech nut in. I did a test fit for the graphtech nut and did the ol' half-a-pencil trick on the frets to check how much I'd have to file down the string slots. Turns out... none. They are absolutely perfectly where they should be. And the radius matches the neck radius too, so I literally have to do nothing except maybe final shaping of the nut (but not the slots) to take off all the sharp edges and get it flush with the board on either side of the nut slot. Cool stuff.
For now I'm content with the day's progress and I'm gonna chill and catch up on Vikings.
