Whoops

I sprayed the lacquer on to the guitar body (several thin coats). It looked good and it really made the metallic flakes twinkle. I let it dry completely, then I sanded back with very fine wet and dry paper, ready for the last coat. I kept noticing this thin 'skin' forming as I sanded. Then I realised it was the entire layer of lacquer coming off. Whoops. Apparently there are more than one sort of lacquer available, and I obviously used completely the wrong one. I've had to peel off all the lacquer and there are still little flakes of it all over. When I got sick of peeling off bits of lacquer, I hung the guitar body back in its wire, where it usually resides. The wire promptly broke and the guitar body smashed into the floor of my shed. Now there's big chips of paint missing on the base and the back. Whoops, again. So some serious respraying is needed, then some lacquering with the correct sort of lacquer (which I have already purchased).

Having forgotten why this project started, I asked Gav the other day if there was actually anything wrong with the guitar (I can remember now that there must have been, as this is how it ended up in bits - not everyone takes things that work fine to bits to see how they work, like I do, although those that do usually observe well enough to put things back together fine, like I do not). He told me that the guitar just didn't work (electrically). I can see that some of the wires to the selector switch are disconnected and I hope that this is the extent of the problems and that the pickups are OK. The pickups, which you may remember have been covered in all sorts of pen and paint combinations, are now (and hopefully will remain) flat white (first coat done, so far). I know painting pickups it seriously wrong, but nothing will get them clean, and replacements aren't an option.

And the switch tip still hasn't arrived from All Parts.

Body paint

I painted the body of Gav's guitar! Halfords don't sell pink paint off the shelf, so I just chose the daftest colour they had instead.T Gav's guitar is now the same colour as this little bit of motoring history:



Which is, in fact "Rover Tara Green". Metallic green. Nice.

The scratchplate, knobs, screws, etc came from Allparts! All I'm missing now is one switch tip.

Now I'm off to go and spray some clear lacquer all over!1!