Recent content by Adorex

Ah, well, he hasn't even got checkerboard binding ;-) (aiaiai, that looks very very professional...)

Hey Betyouaint, how about sharing the 3d-drawing for the trussrod-cover? Or start a trussrod-cover-business? I'd love to have a Hilckenbacker trussrod-cover for mine!!

Here's some progress on the paintjob: the waterbased stainer was definitely NOT a good idea: in some places it just wouldn't cover the body, so the results kept on being quite messy. It took a lot of repairing and repainting (waterbased, so it dissolves again when painting again) to get a result...

Hi Gilmour, on youtube you can find a lot of video's of how to glue and scrape off binding, even in the Rick-factory itself (see the video of the Rickenbacker Factory Tour: Model 330 Guitar & Model Bass Construction).

I went out shopping for the paint last week, and to my surprise the paintshop had an option that does not require spraying, so masking the binding is not even necesary . For the colour I got a small bag of water-soluable paint-powder, which only binds on wood (not on plastic, so not on the...

Here an update: first of all the router bits. The first one had a radius of 9.5 mm (small bit), the new one has a radius of 15 mm (yellow bit). I think Rickenbacker used an even bigger radius (20? 25?) but these are only for sale in pro-shops and at high prices (the ones I found were around...

Hi Gilmourisgod, I don't know yet if I will mask the binding, I read somewhere that automotive pinstripe-tape would be very suitable for use here. I'll let you know when I'm that far. But for now I've been sanding and polishing... and right before I wanted to start painting I decided that the '...

Hoi, I'm still in doubt about the body color. I would really like to do sunburst but I'm a bit afraid to mess up the whole guitar with that. Good alternative would be transparent red. I think it is best to avoid having to do a lot of scraping so I want to mask the binding, and only scrape...

And here the complete result: yesterday I glued the remaining part of the binding (because one strip of binding wasn't enough to fit completely around the guitar). Thanks to Daan Kupfer for helping me get this great result! The checkerboard-binding fits really well, all I have to do now is...

Yes, it really does. It melts the celluloid to a kind of gooey stuff, which then slowly changes back to celluloid. That makes it easy to correct mistakes, but you will have to fill up the gaps and sand off all the excess celluloid. The first result is very dirty, messy and full of spots, but...

And the result: totally awesome and near perfect (only one very minor flaw at the neck): The binding is not long enough to fit completely around the body, so I will have to glue the binding in two pieces. Last piece I will hopefully glue around this period...

Here's a first try at pre-shaping the bindings: the black-white binding broke when I fitted it around the corner, so even now I will have to use the iron to soften it a little and bend it around the corners. Off course only after I cleaned out the routing channel with sandpaper... When I tested...

Hoi, adorex is my old ' artist' name ("Adorex Goldshower" ), stems from adore, ado (" the curtain with the gold thread") rex (king) and odorex (cheap deo). Kind of a cheap, creepy german porn star name and completely different from what you made of it ;-) And here's some answers: 1) yes, it...

I have an old ELU MOF 96 router. What it lacks in completeness it makes up in power...

Yesterday I finally figured out how to make the groove for the binding in a proper cheap-skate way : I disassembled a cheap chinese router-bit with ballbearing and calculated what circumference the proper ballbearing would have to be. I then asked a friend of mine, who happens to work at a...