@boo I admire your finishing skills and patience ! Nice work

Madness.
 
 
 
 
Love it.
I keep saying this @Boo – you have some serious skills.

@boo  And by complete coincidence, that is the name of this particular purple candy paint. Maybe its not coincidence, but looking good nevertheless.

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A Jimi tribute, even though he never had a paint job like this on a guitar, that I know of. 

Purple Haze. 🤘🤩 @boo.
🎶🎸🙏🙂

Posted by: @russ The Lava Lamp of guitars @boo. Looking good. @russ Oh good, I’m glad you said that. Lava lamp is what I was going for, it’s that ‘60s and ‘70s look I’m after. A Jimi tribute, even though…   Read more»

The Lava Lamp of guitars @boo. Looking good. 👍😁💛 
🙏🎸🎶🙂

@boo  Someone bought me that exact same book last year and I’ll be doing the same as you and build some out of whatever detritus I can repurpose.  Dont rely on the imperial to metric conversion though, some are a…   Read more»

@boo I’m a sucker for lost causes, drop it in sometime if you are passing. I mostly do repairs rather than new building so I will be happy to give you my opinion. I’ve never found an instrument that wasn’t…   Read more»

@boo
People have had some strange ideas on building in the past. Thank goodness for modern technology 

@boo Another thought. When I first started making in the 1980s I used to buy from a firm in Pennsylvania US who built a back bow in on purpose to counter string pressure. They had a jig for gluing up…   Read more»

@boo I had a good think about this and waited to see if there were any good ideas from others, so here’s my input. A guitar with back bow on the neck and no truss rod is likely to have been…   Read more»

@boo step one… find some tight pants/shorts to put on… step two…. muscles. 🙂

Posted by: @boo How would you go about doing the opposite thing, do you think? If the neck had a back bow? How about removing the frets and then stinging the guitar for a while, under high tension if necessary….   Read more»

@boo
You can try the back bow repair method first and let us all know how it goes.
ps have you got your spray painting demo ready for @tv101 when we do the video thing.

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How dare you. What are you insinuating

I had visions of you doing some live skin spray painting or something …
🤣 🤣 

Posted by: @boo I bet you are excited, I am. I am supressing my excitement until I played it 😜 ( but I could not prevent a bit of pride to escape 😉)

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We are having an interim move to another house before that happens though, probably in April.

Looks cosy ….
 

@boo  Roll on Burns night on Tuesday. The Burns Supper that I usually go to has been postponed until March this year. The last one I went to, I was stone cold sober, it was a whole new experience (not…   Read more»

Posted by: @russ Your Haggis, Neeps and Tatties look great @boo but you’re a couple of days early. 🤣  @russ Yeah I know but I thought I would have a trial run, I do it every year. 🤣👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Roll on…   Read more»

Posted by: @boo I stepped away from it and made Haggis, neeps and tattles for my tea, with a wee dram afterwards. 🥃  Your Haggis, Neeps and Tatties look great @boo but you’re a couple of days early. 🤣  I’m…   Read more»