Sherwood green, making a guitar and many balls ups.

Penn · May 2023

I don’t suppose anyone has a tiny little bit of Sherwood Green from Steve at Manchester guitar tech hanging about? I’ve been thick and all I need is a tiny little bit to sort this stupid mess I’ve made.

Penn · May 2023

It was all going well. The body came from Gavin at Axecaster. @gavin_axecaster ;

Sanding

Sealing

Painting first coat

It was looking ok after I gave up painting outside. I lost half the paint to the bloody wind doing that and had to order more.

Anyway if anyone has a tiny bit let me know. I’d really appreciate it.

Tannin · May 2023

So your suburb would now be one of those trendy green neighbourhoods now.

Funkfingers · May 2023

Penn said:

Lord Of The Flies?

BillDL · May 2023

I wondered who else would notice the Raid insecticide.
Wish I could help @Penn, but any spare Sherwood Green I have is on the garage wall after spraying a body 2 weeks ago. Unfortunately I used the last aerosol tin right to the end until it started spattering, and I binned it.

Penn · May 2023

@Tannin yes it’s all coffee shops with mocha chai tea latte knickerbocker glory double espressos. Everyone has hipster beards, including the women.

@Funkfingers don’t joke. We have massive flies here. I think the nuclear power plant across the river might be leaking and making them giant mutants.

@BillDL how the other half live. Can’t imagine being wealthy enough to afford a place to store a motor carriage. Can you scrape some off the wall maybe?

Penn · May 2023

Right, more paint ordered. Let’s hope I don’t mess it up this time.

I have a bridge from Crazyparts but the screws seem to be stuck. Anyone else had this?

Suggestions on how to get them moving are welcome.

SteveRobinson · May 2023

Thanks!

Is the bridge rusted? Try 3-in-1 and/or WD-40 first, leave it a while to penetrate and if that doesn't work, apply a bit of heat.

Penn · May 2023

SteveRobinson said:

Thanks!

Is the bridge rusted? Try 3-in-1 and/or WD-40 first, leave it a while to penetrate and if that doesn't work, apply a bit of heat.

I think the technical term is aged… yeah it was but bit of wd-40 seems to have freed it up.

Let’s hope I don’t have to order anymore paint. Don’t get me wrong I’m pleased with the paint and you’ve been brilliant Steve but I haven’t bought wiring, pickups or plastics yet

Penn · May 2023

So it looks better. Thank you @SteveRobinson. I can’t believe how fast you get stuff out. You’re brilliant.

Oh wait, what’s this? It looks like the person spraying it had a woolly jumper on.

At least my Mrs won’t come home and be annoyed about anything. Nothing to see here.

Yes the green is on the chair and table. Balls! Sherwood balls!

Penn · May 2023

Fu(k

BillDL · May 2023

Not sure if you spotted it, but there's some green on the fireplace surround and the radiator too.

Only joking. That's a good spray job. Pity about the thread. You might be able to carefully pick it out and a fine overspray in that area might melt the lacquer enough to fill and blend it without having to sand it.

Littlejonny · May 2023

Still looks bloody gorgeous. Can you give it a satin finish or is it going to be glossy? Love the colour…one of the best ever IMO

Funkfingers · May 2023

Penn said:
the green is on the table and chairs

Start something big!

Penn · May 2023

BillDL said:

Not sure if you spotted it, but there's some green on the fireplace surround and the radiator too.

Only joking. That's a good spray job. Pity about the thread. You might be able to carefully pick it out and a fine overspray in that area might melt the lacquer enough to fill and blend it without having to sand

I’m pretty sure your are right. I’ve got paint everywhere. Still at least this morning I risked sanding slightly and….

Hopefully that’s sorted enough.

Littlejonny said:

Still looks bloody gorgeous. Can you give it a satin finish or is it going to be glossy? Love the colour…one of the best ever IMO

It will be gloss but what I can’t decide is if I should age it down. The hardware is fairly lightly aged stuff from Crazyparts.

I might crack the finish with hot and cold but the more I look at real old guitars the more I think that doesn’t always look right. I think some of the cracking on old guitars is probably from humidity changes too. I’m not sure how best to replicate that.

Funkfingers said:

Penn said:
the green is on the table and chairs

Start something big!

I suspect I will be starting a large decorating project when her indoors gets home.

victorludorum · May 2023

I seem to remember an old post where Steve said his lacquer was pretty craze resistant. That might have changed since though.

SteveRobinson · May 2023

It will crack if you freeze it.

Penn · May 2023

SteveRobinson said:

It will crack if you freeze it.

Thanks Steve. I might well do so. I can’t decide. Seems a pity to damage a good finish but at the same time it does look very new compared to the hardware.

SteveRobinson · May 2023

Add a few dings first, they act as centres for the cracks to form.

TTony · May 2023

SteveRobinson said:

Add a few dings first,

Mrs Penn will probably do that for him when she sees the table ….

Penn · May 2023

TTony said:

SteveRobinson said:

Add a few dings first,

Mrs Penn will probably do that for him when she sees the table ….

Nah, she will probably add them to me.

Penn · May 2023

The green thing progresses slowly

Penn · June 2023

Actual progress with the green thing.

Funkfingers · June 2023

Dang! It would have been wiser to twist the pickup output conductor pairs together before soldering them. This would improve noise and hum rejection a little. (Like you have done with the conductors to the output jack socket.)

Penn · June 2023

Funkfingers said:

Dang! It would have been wiser to twist the pickup output conductor pairs together before soldering them. This would improve noise and hum rejection a little. (Like you have done with the conductors to the output jack socket.)

Now you tell me!

SteveF · June 2023

Looking most excellent

Penn · August 2023

If anyone is interested I did finish the green thing.

Sporky · August 2023

Nice!

Green is good.

sweepy · August 2023

I recently picked up a Sherwood Green Strat, its a colour that grows on you

BillDL · August 2023

That's turned out really nicely. I love the look of Sherwood Green, especially with a rosewood fretboard. You did a great job buffing it. Mines still not assembled. I just have to solder up the pots and switch then drill holes for the 2-point trem bridge. I had a mishap with the lacquer too. The neck was a squeaky tight fit and it snagged on the lacquer at the front edge of the lower side of the pocket as I was lifting it out after a dry-fit, chipping a bit of the lacquer off. I managed to glue it back on with a dab of epoxy and use that for the hard glaze to cover the edges of the chip. Once smoothed off and buffed it's hardly noticeable, but I know it's there and it's annoying.

Penn · August 2023

BillDL said:

That's turned out really nicely. I love the look of Sherwood Green, especially with a rosewood fretboard. You did a great job buffing it. Mines still not assembled. I just have to solder up the pots and switch then drill holes for the 2-point trem bridge. I had a mishap with the lacquer too. The neck was a squeaky tight fit and it snagged on the lacquer at the front edge of the lower side of the pocket as I was lifting it out after a dry-fit, chipping a bit of the lacquer off. I managed to glue it back on with a dab of epoxy and use that for the hard glaze to cover the edges of the chip. Once smoothed off and buffed it's hardly noticeable, but I know it's there and it's annoying.

Well between you and me… I did the same thing but I used a little artists brush with some green on just to pull it over and put a tiny bit of clear over the top. It polished out ok. Dumb thing to do.

That said I was going for a vintage strat look and they often have damage there. I buffed it okish but I’ve left some swirls on purpose so it looks like it’s old and has polish swirls from being cleaned. I sort of want to get it all to crack a little but I’m sure it will do that with age anyway.

This time last year I helped my uncle sell his veneer board parts Strat. We chucked it through GH. Had an original neck and quite a few other bits on a homemade body. I keep wishing I’d had it from him and used the bits on a better body… like the Hosco one on this guitar

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