Why are you touching it before its cured?!?!?

bad Ceri!! bad!!

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Haha! "Naughty naughty Zoot!" - if you know that line...

Don't you worry yourself about it, Twelvebar. I think it's gonna work out fine. (That's another quote...)

- C

I sooooooooooooooooooooooo feel you pain! I just got my new vintage RI neck plate engraved yesterday (had my birthdate put on there as the serial number) so all the parts are -ready to go on-...and it's driving me nuts! I was actually hoping that it was going to take longer for these folks to ship my parts to me so that I'd have to wait at least another week or two for them since it's easy to wait when you don't have all the parts...dang'd Ebay sellers and their speedy delivery! LOL! When you want something in a hurry, it takes them a month to ship it to you but when you actually want to wait a couple of weeks, it shows up on your doorstep 2 days later.

Talk about the fun of literally sitting here "watching paint dry"...oye!

Jim

Never mind watching the paint dry. For the first few day I could smell the sovent coming off that finish. I was smelling my guitar drying!

Hmm. Gotta get my ear close to that thing - see if I can hear that paint drying. For that matter, I haven't tried tasting it yet...

Anything to make the time pass.

...'Course, we could always start building another guitar in the meantime...

- C

Give it a lick in the control cavity.

I strongly suspect that you've missed the window for any other worldly effects.

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Ooo-er! When I was a nipper some mad impulse made me try licking both rails on my toy train set. An instant later I found myself sitting hard on my backside a few feet away - never tried that one again!

Later in life that lesson helped me to always be very careful of live mics, too...

Cheers - C

I -know- this is just the impatience thing talking here but...anythoughts on putting the painted body(s) in an oven at a lower temp...say round 200 or 250 degrees to speed the drying time?

so many things just started to make sense!!!

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Oven heat is not good for it. The heating would be to uneven that why they use infered heating in places. Plus it could change the balenced moisture content the wood has become over time.

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another reason they don't use a standard oven, is the fact that the bodies are glued together. heating them directly will loosen the glue.

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Now that actually makes sense...something I hadn't thought of. I did see a couple of things where folks use fans to help dry lacquer finishes though...help the solvents evaporate or something. Either way, it's been two weeks now, I can't smell the lacquer on the body at all any more so I think this next weekend I'm going to go ahead and put her together. I had gone with a fairly thin finish anyways so 3 weeks should be sufficient and I should be able to keep myself busy for 5 more days...I hope.

Thing about using fans is to not aim them at the item it will help particulates stick to the finish if done so. Fans placed in a drying encloser being used to exhaust fumes from inside to the outside diong the dry process is OK. At this point though I don't think you need to worry about the finish you have used being cured enough.

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson