Cato's "making of a copy of Jay's strat" blog

[jhale667]

Good work! I hate skinny frets too.

[Cato]

new frets are big as much as Gibson's. to me, it's the most useful size.

[Cato]

today, I took 2 steps forward




heaping up epoxy resin here..




and sanding

[Cato]

[Matt White]

Excellent color choice

[Jimmy Jingles]

Excellent work.

What else can your trained pussy do?

[Cato]

Originally posted by Matt White
Excellent color choice

er...it's not a finish color. I'm still in the undercoating process.

I was rubbing polishing powder into the body yesterday.
and today, I finished it and sprayed primer.

[Cato]

Originally posted by Jimmy Jingles


What else can your trained pussy do?

relic work

[hillbillyhell]

Originally posted by Cato
today, I took 2 steps forward




heaping up epoxy resin here..




and sanding

I got to ask , Is your stain , paint going to stick to your resin ? If so is it going to have a tint to it ? And if it does gave a tint i can tell you a little trick i used for years in my wood shop ... If you use a good wood puddy you van mix your sanding dust in it and the stain will stick and not have any tint ..

[jhale667]

Originally posted by hillbillyhell
.....a little trick i used for years in my wood shop ... If you use a good wood puddy you can mix your sanding dust in it and the stain will stick and not have any tint ..

hmmm....good to know....:p

[hillbillyhell]

Thank you , Thank you .. I got A tip for the people ( like me ) that plays guitars with floyds . After years of diving you posts will waller out the holes making your trim slide up and killing your intoe .. When you 1st see this happening to your ax just pull the posts( and a lot of peole will put a dail rod in the hole and re drill it but 95 % of the time it will go off center and make a bigger mess ). If you will take super glue and put in the post hole ( use alot ) it ill soke in the wood around the hole will get harder and be less likely to to get larger with heavy use of a floyd..

[Cato]

Originally posted by hillbillyhell
I got to ask , Is your stain , paint going to stick to your resin ? If so is it going to have a tint to it ? And if it does gave a tint i can tell you a little trick i used for years in my wood shop ... If you use a good wood puddy you van mix your sanding dust in it and the stain will stick and not have any tint ..

that's a grate idea. I'll try it next time.

[jhale667]

Originally posted by hillbillyhell
Thank you , Thank you .. I got A tip for the people ( like me ) that plays guitars with floyds . After years of diving you posts will waller out the holes making your trim slide up and killing your intoe ..

I've heard of that happening to guitars made out of sub-par/soft woods like basswood and the like, but I've never had that problem...I only use bodies made out of heavy shit like Ash, Mahogany, & Koa....I've got a couple of guitars with Floyds that are like, 20+ years old... Still rock solid.

LMAO at "Waller"...haven't heard that term since I left WV eons ago.....

[hillbillyhell]

Originally posted by jhale667
I've heard of that happening to guitars made out of sub-par/soft woods like basswood and the like, but I've never had that problem...I only use bodies made out of heavy shit like Ash, Mahogany, & Koa....I've got a couple of guitars with Floyds that are like, 20+ years old... Still rock solid.

LMAO at "Waller"...haven't heard that term since I left WV eons ago.....

Well youknow here in wv thing tend to '' waller '' I myself like bodys with some girth to them but i do have 2 ibanez guitars and as everyone knows basswood ( len) is the wood that 90% of ibanezs are made from and the 10% you ask plywood , yes the stuff ony good for roof decking ., The best bodys in my mind are the heavy ass ones that make your back crack after a night of jamming ..

[Cato]

these are what I did today...

re-holed headstock for tuners



and coated the neck with lacquer