what exactly is wet sanding?Originally posted by indeedido
[B]Almost done and rounding the last corner.
I let the body sit for about a week before I was able to begin the wet sanding. I really need some good old sunshine. You can't be natural light for this kind of work. Without it, you will miss most of what you are doing.
Thanks!
Anything left in that bottle?
It is available at any hardware store. Basically they make a sandpaper that is specially made and you submerge it under water and get it wet. Then you start sanding on the paint. It reduces the friction of sanding, and eliminates scratches and swirls. The water makes it rub really easily and smooth.
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WHILST I WAS OUT BUSY HAVING A LIFE THIS SUMMER/FALL/NOW WINTER I NOTICED YOU DIDN'T DO THE BLACK FIRSTOriginally posted by indeedidoOnce I hit it with the black stripes, this thing is gonna POP. Doesn't quite look done without the black does it?
BC!!
AS IN VAN HALEN ALBUM COVER DUHHH
http://newyork.craigslist.org/jsy/msg/503610868.html
HERES ANOTHER GUY DID ANOTHER PARTS GUITAR WITH BLACK LAST COLOR TOO HAHAHA
BC!!
DONT FEEL BAD YOU FUCKED UP THATS WHAT SANDPAPERS FOR
I did black last on purpose. I didn't want the black under the red like Ed's I wanted it smooth. His looks like shit. Cool for him, but I wanted it different. To each their own.
And as far as parts go, the only thing else I should mention is my neckplate. I found a guy online that does custom engraving. So I got an EVH neckplate made. Notice the serial number, 001. Yes, I have the first made! lol
Hello,
I just found this site and registerd. Wondering who you found to do that neck plate for you? I built a charvel EVH art series guitar and that neck plate would be awesome. Wondering if you would let the info out?
Thanks for any help,
John
I found the guy on ebay who engraves them, he's got a template he can crank one out for you. His id is guitarheads. you can search for that or neck plates and you find him.
He contacted me and he gave me a SPANKIN! Said he doesn't do other people logos and never will, chewed me up and spit me outbeat me like an old horse..
WOW that hurt!
So I guess you have a one of a kind dude...congrats
Last edited by marksjohnc; 05-31-2009 at 08:00 PM.
That "guitarheads" guy would never do a trademarked logo, oh no.
How dare you accuse..
what's that supposed to mean...How dare I accuse?
I didn't accuse anyone of anything. Just stated facts that I contacted him about a neck plate and he told me he doesn't do other peoples logos and Never Will.
So I got SPANKED
Don't sweat it, si-gar is a little wanna be, google posting, never played or owned a guitar before in his life. Find 3 people in the entire CVH community that even like this guy and you'll find 2 more than we ever had. He's what we used to call a poseur.
Originally Posted by vandeleur
E- Jesus . Playing both sides because he didnt understand the argument in the first place
He did make it, I'm being sarcastic that he's denied doing it..
Actually you could etch one yourself, it's very easy:
1. make a reverse stencil of the logo you're trying to plagiarise,
2. apply it to the plate
3. stick it in a 5-gallon bucket with a saltwater solution of about a gallon of hot water, and fistfull of salt or salt-packets from a burger joint
4. get a car battery and jumper cables
5. apply these to your genitals
6. scratch that I was just joking
7. I mean scratch tip #5 not your genitals
8. apply the pos (+) terminal onto the plate
9. get an old eletrical appliance cord, and strip the plastic off it and coil up the whole length, about 6 to 10 feet, around your wrist then clamp the negative (-) terminal to hold it together
10. dunk both terminals a few inches apart from each other into the saltwater
11. connect the battery
You should give it about 3 hours before you see much action, it'll start bubbling as the chrome, nickel and copper strip off the plating and attach to the bare copper wire you coiled.
You need high amperage to etch the plating deep enough. It doesnt' look too pretty after your'e done, you need to clean it with green scotchbrite and acetone, just within the etched portion to shine it. You should backfill the etched part with silver, black, or clear lacquer to protect the remaining chrome plating from peeling especially if you went too deep.
I sent the guy another email asking him just who is lying....well I know tha answer already but wanted to shake his cage a little, cuase a little aint enough, till ya dance the night away!
Got a questio, since I'm a a newbie, how ya can post pics of your project guitar here? Wanted to share my custom builds with community like indeedido.
Thanks for the help
P.S> Forget that guy and his neck plate, I have a couple nice ones already I'll use. An engraved VH one and Frankenstrat made by a guy who WILL do business with me: NYG custom neck plates. That guy John over there does nice work....maybe I'll ask him...hmmmm
Use photobucket or another image hosting web site put the [img] or image code into your post and there you go.
Thanks man! I'll give it a try
BTW if you guys here that do builds want that early sound...go to guitarattack.com and check out the attack bucker mp3. It's spot on. I put one in my VH1 guitar I just built and it is spot on. Not as pricey as the Duncan '78 and he nailed the tone. Tell John over there that John Marks sent ya! He's a great guy and has a lot of useful info on his site. We trade secrets we discover all the time.
It worked man thanks. I put up a new post "My Builds" the VH Bro's and put up some pics of my two builds. Will be adding another I built for a friend. That one I got the finish factory on. Was more patient with someone elses stuff..:0
You find a photo hosting site, signup, then upload your pics.
Then you type here in the reply box the location URL between two brackets of code, one for {img}http://www.yourpic.com/blahblah.jpg followed by bracket-forward-slash-img {/img}
If I do it exactly it'll be interpreted by the code this board runs on and make it invisible so you won't see it.
[ ]http://www.yourpic.com/blahblah.jpg[/ ]
Or you could go the pussy way out, and click Preview Post in the reply, which will take you to Advanced, which gives a field of formatting buttons for discussion board beginners.
That is a good way to learn the formatting. A couple times doing it that way, you'll remember what it did then do it manually.
I went back threw my notes. Looks like I bought a different neck plate from that guy.
The one I had made for the EVH came from tektron71 on ebay. He has several items listed so you should be able to find him. He'll make whatever you want. He has a web site too but I don't recall the url.
sorry for the mix up
I got ahold of tektron71 today and he said he didn't make that plate and said he couldn't make it because of copyright infringement...Is there possibly another guy who made the plate for you?
You know what I'd like to see, is EVH doing other colors in the scheme.
Ok, I've got it now. I bought three neck plates on ebay. So by default, it must have come from mrwmlarson. I'm positive this time.
Try him out and let me know.
Yeah...he's definately the one. I got in touch with him and he's making me one as we speak! Good man!
If you guys start a new build, lets start a new thread making it easier to follow.. otherwise it gets lost in the old one.
Enjoy being sued by evh....
Yeah ,right
Trolls take heed...LOG OUT & FUCK OFF!!!
Yeah...it's just like lifting someones work from one website & using it on your own...without credit....HEY!!!! Wait a mintue................
PWn3d!
Eddie didn't clear coat his guitars. Ane even though you did, you should have worn it down to relic state before doing so and let the rest of the aging occur naturally...
Plus, you should have left the headstock blank, both back and front...
I know i'm a pisser...
Nice job
That's a little simplified...
What he said is right, but you always clean your paper and refresh your water and add a couple of drops of dishwashing liquid to the water. It helps lubricate and at the same time helps the paper cut better...
It does not reduce the friction from sanding. It keeps most of the paint from building up on the paper and also makes the paint buildup easier to remove...
Autozone And even Walmart has wet/dry paper...
You do know wet/dry is automotive and you can get it in grit up to 2000?That's a little simplified...
What he said is right, but you always clean your paper and refresh your water and add a couple of drops of dishwashing liquid to the water. It helps lubricate and at the same time helps the paper cut better...
It does not reduce the friction from sanding. It keeps most of the paint from building up on the paper and also makes the paint buildup easier to remove...
Autozone And even Walmart has wet/dry paper...
Sanding with soap (just carwash) works well for auto paint, I can't say what it would do with guitar finishes. The purpose of the water is to keep the sandpaper unclogged..
Eddie didn't clear coat his guitars. Ane even though you did, you should have worn it down to relic state before doing so and let the rest of the aging occur naturally...
Plus, you should have left the headstock blank, both back and front...
I know i'm a pisser...
Nice job
Ha, yeah, I did a much better job than Edward did. I also used sand sealer to seal the grain which he didn't. His, while cool and I obviously admire, looks like shit up close. I set out to replicate the look of it, but not look like a 10 year old painted it.
Elvis is correct, the only clear coated EVH guitar was the black-yellow.
There may be as many as 400 ever made by the factory, and probably a third survived refinishing intact with the original paint.
The Black and Yellow (Bumblebee) was clear-coated because it was painted by Karl Sandoval when he was working at Charvel...
Of course I know that...
I've painted cars, bikes and guitars...
The basic concept is the same...
By the time you work down to 2000 grit, you already have a shine...cloudy, but a shine nonetheless...
uh, the guys name who did that was Ernie Pedragon.
He also designed the Jackson logo for the Rhodes guitar which became the company trademark and got nothing for it.
Hmm...Karl's currently re-doing his site, but there was a story about it, and a pic of him and Ed posing with the finished product posted there...
And it's "Rhoads" you hammerhead.
I'm not gonna bad talk the guy, but I've always hoped better for him than to learn he's in bumfuck Whittier which I'll badtalk all day long.. I hate Whittier.
People who move to Whittier, die in Whittier. Scumbag Mexiwelfare Queens can be seen at all hours of the day lined up at the curb waiting for the fucking Metro bus with their washtub guts spilling outta their fucking Bebe undersized micro-hugger jeans with their ugly mushfaced kids in tow sucking on sticks of greased-up corncobs.
If you don't run over an illegal alien in Whittier, you stand just as fair a chance at getting rear-ended by the crazy methhead kids that can't find jobs there but still havent moved outta Mommie's Place.. fucking HELL hole of a town.
And the Sherrif's .. they're nuts. All they do all day long is pull over kids shaking them down in illegal car searches, for drugs. Every one of those dudes is high and whiffed out FUCK Whittier Sherriff's - they're antzy because they're doing lines with all the time in the world to do it with and behind the wheel of a patrol car where they're least suspect - fucking ASSHOLE town, Whittier..
FUCK Whittier. That place is a shithole where all the parolees go to their AA NA and CA meetings because of all the industrial vacancies since General Dynamics said "fuck you we're outta here" to the town and left a huge vaccum over 20 years ago that's never been resolved FUCK fucking Whittier with the fucking ugly stick!
And this tirade had what to do with anything, btw?
"I'm not gonna bad talk the guy, but let me ramble on at length about where I googled he lives..."
And this from a so-called "guitarist"...
And it's "Rhoads" you hammerhead.
Does GARfuckle spell it Van Haylen too?
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