Bass guitar refurb

[Drago]

Rubbed down again with 400 grit wet. As well as smoothing things out the removal of the shiny surface helps promote outgassing, which speeds the cure time and makes microblisters and the like less likely.

Will leave it a few more days, then another 2 or 3 colour coats, then more rubbing down. Ad nauseum.

 

[Drago]

There are now an obscene number of coats of paint on the body.some tiny imperfections have been filled with stopper, and the whole lot rubbed back. Will allow it to cure of a few days and then apply the final 10 or so coats of colour.

 

[MontyVeda]

She's partially sighted, she'll never know

I used to live with a partially sighted person. she couldn't see the town hall clock but she could see when I hadn't hoovered up properly

 

[Drago]

I do the housework because Mrs D struggles to see cobwebs etc, but she can spot a £20 note on the floor from 400 paces.

 

[Drago]

Rubbed down, but not too finely. T Cut, but deliberately not to a total mirror shine. This gives it a fairly convincing worn nitro look.

Pickguard held over a flame, just enough to brown some of the edges slightly and heat the plastic enough that the smoke penetrated the surface and wont rub off. This gives it a nice, hrubby, aged and worn look.

As is often the case, the photos dont give the full effect justice, but as it stands it does give a careworn look.

The ashtrays were strategically rubbed down with very fine wet and dry, rolled around in salt and left outdoors for 2 weeks. They've been brought in, cleaned, and lightly polished and look lovely. Not so the tuners - the chrome was just too good, and other than some very slight tarnishing they didn't really age.