If you bought it from Tonetech you could ask them for a trade account and get a reduced price. You should qualify as a trained painter hoping to do business doing custom spray guitars. They attend gui...

Yes! @mattbeels Yeah...... 💪 I learned something about wiring. 😝

Is that a viscosity guage or whatever it might be called? @mattbeels No, it’s just a paint ratio mixing stick.

Look at the shiny shiny paint. 😁

I mixed the paint. 😁 Attachment : 19A9EFE7-79EA-48CF-B6B5-CE14816C51CA.jpeg Attachment : 355DF43C-2BD9-438A-83E2-EA267E6F553A.jpeg

Just so long as it has a chameleon paint job @mattbeels Doh! 😖

Yes, sorry. You guys say earth, right? @mattbeels Yeah. So, so long as all the “earths” go to the back of the volume pot and there is another wire soldered from the pot to the metal tab that is screw...

Yeah, that’s one way of not improving your soldering skills. Why not just order a pre made neck to go with it? @mattbeels I might just buy a new bass. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

cover that connection with shielding paint and solder the wire to ground, easy peesy. @mattbeels When you say solder to ground, do you mean to the back of the volume pot?

You can’t get away without soldering anyway as those pickups have to come out and go back in. (Or new ones, better) @mattbeels I might just order a premade replacement, already soldered. I know I’ll ...

I prefer to screw a (pre-wired) metal tab in the cavity and slather the paint all over that and connect it to the common ground. @mattbeels I don’t know how to do this but it sounds like a good idea.

Have you tried just pushing it back in @boo? @russ Of course. 😁 It will stay in there but it just keeps turning and turning, not doing anything useful. It doesn’t stop the guitar from working...

Gotcha. It can be done either way and putting clear over it isn’t a problem. I’ve put it on several guitars that were already finished and it cleans up easily with a damp rag when it’s wet. I’ve miss...

Get something of better quality. @igeorgebot Yeah I was even thinking of replacing the pickups too. I didn’t really need the expense at the moment though, I’ll just get it painted for now. 👍

Though I’m curious as to why you chose to shield before finishing? @mattbeels I saw a video of someone saying that it’s less messy painting the cavities first, instead of potentially spilling it on a...

Did some more work on this Bandsman today and I am reporting back about the Aquacoat clear grain filler I used. It is expensive but it goes a long way, I think it’s an amazing product. I just scraped ...

I’m opening this thread because I’m doing a chameleon paint job on this Fender Squire Jazz Bass........BUT........ as I was taking it apart, one of the volume/tone control pots broke, I think. Can thi...

Is that not the same view in Blackpool @deej Absolutely not unfortunately. 😆

neck angle jig homie, not headstock thicknessing... right? @mattbeels Oh what a dumb ass I am. Doh 😣 yeah scrap that advice.

Im guessing you would carve the neck before glue up--but what do I know? @bangy There is a YouTube live stream that Mark did last year about this kind of construction. Check it out.