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Hi all: interesting ideas kicking around. Noted...

Regarding questions about heat stripping - I couldn't tell you exactly how hot the air coming out of that gun is. Hotter than a hair dryer for sure - it'll start to char the wood if you keep it pointed in the same place for more than ten or twenty seconds, so the trick is to keep it moving slowly. The paint starts to bubble and blister and you can just scrape most of it off with a household scraper, seen in one of the pictures.

That stripping job would have taken about an hour - had I not kept stopping to take photos and then run in to look at them on the computer before proceeding. The photo journal aspect makes stuff take a lot longer... :lol:

To work.

Seems to me the first thing is to sort out that nasty split in the middle, presumably made by the heat of the fire causing the glue in this multipiece body to fail. Or maybe the split was there before - Niki?

If we can't make that good then there's no point carrying on: no use pouring masses of effort into this thing if the first time we hit an open E chord the guitar breaks in half down the center...

Have a closer look:
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And held up to the light:
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My plan is that we need to chisel out a section of wood either side of the split and beyond its end. Then fill that gap with a piece of wood cut to fit. A bit of old fashioned chiselling is in order:
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That pic shows a thin fillet of ash I have cut for the job. (That ash comes from one of my own trees, felled and seasoned myself. :D )

Not a very good photo journalist as it turns out. Coulda sworn I'd taken a shot of the cavity I excavated - but I've somehow lost it. Sorry.

I made the cavity nearly big enough for the ash fillet and then shaped the latter with a scraper (seen in the next pic) to fit exactly. We want a snug fit but not too tight. We don't want it to exert an outwards pressure on the body timber, and the glue itself takes up small but significant space. Here is the fillet installed:
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And what it looks like round the front:
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After the glue dried I scraped the top flush with the rest of the spring cavity and cut the surplus end off with an old pad saw (one of my grandfather's tools I think):
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That still leaves a rough end in the trem block cavity, but that will get finished smooth at a later stage.

Next, I put a small 12.5mm / 0.5" drum sander on the pillar drill and worked away at the control and jack cavities to remove some of the charcoal from their surfaces:
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And that's it for today.

But tune in tomorrow: I hope to have a bumper episode for you...

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Restoring the "lip" near the trem mounting holes is going to be tricky. Looks good so far though.

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Just enough for this episode Ceri! 1 small bag of popcorn eaten!! :wink:

Tune in tomorrow!

I have a feeling that the old Blue Badger knows exactly what hes doing. :)


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fhopkins wrote:
I have a feeling that the old Blue Badger knows exactly what hes doing. :)


Thanks Hop - I wish I had the same feeling! :lol: :lol:

Have we bitten off more than we can chew on this one? New problems keep revealing themselves...

BTW: I'm struggling to understand this Blue Badger thing? I don't mind in the slightest - but I must have missed something?

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Awesome post Ceri, can't wait to see it finished.

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mthorn00 wrote:
Restoring the "lip" near the trem mounting holes is going to be tricky. Looks good so far though.


Indeed! Bits keep falling off that edge - and many other places too. This guitar really is in quite bad shape... :!:

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Silverslack wrote:
Awesome post Ceri, can't wait to see it finished.


Truly - me too!!!

Stay tooned...

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Bloody Hell...I can't wait it see it finished, but more so I am interested in learning as much as I can from Ceri. This isn't the stuff you see in alot of the magazines.
Sure some big name can smash or incinerate a guitar. But how does one repair the damage.
Pretty brilliant stuff .....(pulls out a note pad, opens a Smithwicks and a bag of sunflower seeds.)


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Sorry about the Blue Badger thing. I'll drop it. I saw BigJay reference it in a thread once concerning you and thought it was a inside joke between you two. Consider it dropped my friend! :)


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BigJay wrote:
Very cool, Ceri. (did someone call you Cheri????? :P )

Sorry Big Jay and more sorry Ceri :oops: , that was me, my typing skills aren't the best and my fingers sometimes get ahead of my brain, but I still stand by what I said about another build thread by you.
filerj :oops: :oops: :oops:
Question, my captain....The heat gun....how much heat? How directly? Does the heat cause the finish to peel back? How does the finish react such that you can remove it? How long did this stage take you?

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I really like the idea of a strat/tele combo as mentioned earlier in this thread. The more I imagine how it would look the better I like it, but I know whatever Ceri does it will be first class!! 8)


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hey ceri,

ive been following along like a kid waiting on the next episode of a favorite cartoon, anxious to see the outcome, all along cheering on the hero.

too cool man, i have no doubt you will this one work as you did last season with the problematic strat body.
by the way that was a beaut.

cant wait to see the next step, the next page of this chapter.


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fhopkins wrote:
Sorry about the Blue Badger thing. I'll drop it. I saw BigJay reference it in a thread once concerning you and thought it was a inside joke between you two. Consider it dropped my friend! :)


Hi again Hop: please don't drop it - I don't mind one little bit. But please just find out what it means and let me know! It's clearly an inside joke I'm not on the inside of! :lol:

To filerj: not the smallest problem. The least of the confusions my silly name causes... :lol:

And to bluesstrattone, BastardN and everyone else: thank you for your friendly comments. Makes it all lots of fun at this end... :D

See y'all tomorrow - C


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Nice start Ceri!!!!

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Here is where I got it from Ceri. Might have misunderstood. Niki and BigJay were talking.
http://www.fender.com/community/forums/ ... ht=#359234


Seems they were talking about wrestlers. :lol:


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