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Stoner/Doom 58: Green will happen, one way or another...

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I've hated all of Rob Zombies movies. I hated what he did with the Halloween movies, Myers is much more terrifying as an unexplained demon than a product of a broken/abusive household. I'll end up watching lords of salem eventually, but I won't pay to watch it.
 
#82
Corey Y said:
I could use some feedback from you all. I'm getting close to being done with the building portion of my p-bass project and I'm trying to decide how to finish it. It's a one piece pine body, maple board on the neck, standard vintage style Fender hardware, black/white/black pickguard:

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Right now I'm waffling on whether to give it a transparent or solid finish. If I go solid I'll probably just do spray lacquer, black or white. If I go transparent I was thinking of doing something amber/vintage yellow style. My dad is pretty good with finishing things, he used to be a furniture maker before he started building windows, so I've been talking over a bunch of different ways I could do the transparent finish. Right now I'm thinking I would probably lay down a sanding sealer, then a wash coat with a little bit of yellow dye, then some amber/blonde shellac and maybe a clear coat over that.

I'm not that experienced with spray finishes, so anything I do I'm going to do some experiments on some scrap pine first. Any ideas/feedback are welcome.
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I was also thinking some stamped copper or tin screwed to the body or distressed leather like that book project you were working on would look killer then saw this
http://guitarz.blogspot.com/2012_01_01_archive.html
 
#83
Ron Now said:
I've hated all of Rob Zombies movies. I hated what he did with the Halloween movies, Myers is much more terrifying as an unexplained demon than a product of a broken/abusive household. I'll end up watching lords of salem eventually, but I won't pay to watch it.
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Yeah I'll give you that the background lacks imagination.
Most horror scripts have serious writing issues if you look hard enough. What I love is the photography and editing, there are scenes in those movies that stick with me.
He tends to separate violence from the gore. Both are there but usually not at the same time.
Tasteful but still gooey and shocking.
 
#84
Go transparent finish or something fun. Nothing is more boring than another P-bass in whatever normal paint job Fender gives it :P

I liked House of 1000 Corpses and Devil's Rejects. I'm really excited for his movie coming out about the 70s Flyers called Broad Street Bullies.
 
#85
mbelue said:
Ouch man, seems like that would make more stress, trying harder just to see.
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Yeah can't wait for 4:30 about worthless at work today. I need to do some calculations to figure out an address road range for a new road in the county and not really trusting myself with calculations to say the least lol, some poor schlub will end up never getting mail ha ha. Plus my coworker who doesn"t know the mapping software and database as good as I keeps asking me too help troubleshoot, so far so good, eventually my answer to her will be when the squirrels fall from the leprechaun tree then the catfish distributor will be the ticket, so yeah go with that
 
#86
Yeah never really enjoyed the old Halloween movies that much but liked the Zombie take for some reason. And it know I should be a classic horror film I love but just couldn't get in to the originals. I do love good demonic themed stuff usually though.
 
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Samsquanch1972 said:
... Plus my coworker who doesn"t know the mapping software and database as good as I keeps asking me too help troubleshoot, so far so good, eventually my answer to her will be when the squirrels fall from the leprechaun tree then the catfish distributor will be the ticket, so yeah go with that
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Yeah that's the funny thing about computers and IT. People who don't know anything about it tend to assume those of us who do know everything about it.
Like the accountants at work here asking me about their software, that sh!t may as well be magic for all I know. I'm the phone guy. Still I usually figure it out pretty quick and rattle off something about "databases indexing. " They don't want any more detail about that.
 
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mbelue said:
Yeah that's the funny thing about computers and IT. People who don't know anything about it tend to assume those of us who do know everything about it.
Like the accountants at work here asking me about their software, that sh!t may as well be magic for all I know. I'm the phone guy. Still I usually figure it out pretty quick and rattle off something about "databases indexing. " They don't want any more detail about that.
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I am in GIS so I am a mapper, but the boss and I seem to know the most about the software so we trouble shoot a lot for the others, but with the meds today everything feels like Chinese Algebra. I think my best bet would be leaving work early and watching something stupid silly like Mr. Bean and giggle while my prescription high takes me for its ride.
 
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Samsquanch1972 said:
Gun stock oil?
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I thought about doing an oil finish, but given that the body is really soft pine it probably wouldn't be good in the long run. Tru Oil is polymerized oil, so it would probably work better, but I've heard it's really difficult to get glossy and consistent.

Samsquanch1972 said:
I was also thinking some stamped copper or tin screwed to the body or distressed leather like that book project you were working on would look killer then saw this
http://guitarz.blogspot.com/2012_01_01_archive.html
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That's pretty cool. Far beyond what I'm going to be doing with this, since I have the parts already, but cool. I could do a dyed wax finish and make it look distressed. Here's a block of similar pine that I did a test on with Briwax and some mild to medium distressing techniques.

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Definitely leaning towards transparent, just trying to figure out what sort of finish to use.

I agree John, Fender clones with stock Fender finishes are kind of boring.

I like the transparent green idea. Not sure how difficult it would be to do green transparent. I was considering amber/yellow because there's lots of stuff that gets that color without adding anything. I like brown and green transparent finishes with black pickguards a lot though.
 
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Corey Y said:
I thought about doing an oil finish, but given that the body is really soft pine it probably wouldn't be good in the long run. Tru Oil is polymerized oil, so it would probably work better, but I've heard it's really difficult to get glossy and consistent.



That's pretty cool. Far beyond what I'm going to be doing with this, since I have the parts already, but cool. I could do a dyed wax finish and make it look distressed. Here's a block of similar pine that I did a test on with Briwax and some mild to medium distressing techniques.

photobucket-59963-1363208743857_zps193893da.jpg



Definitely leaning towards transparent, just trying to figure out what sort of finish to use.

I agree John, Fender clones with stock Fender finishes are kind of boring.

I like the transparent green idea. Not sure how difficult it would be to do green transparent. I was considering amber/yellow because there's lots of stuff that gets that color without adding anything. I like brown and green transparent finishes with black pickguards a lot though.
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That biwax finish looks good!
 
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Corey Y said:
I could use some feedback from you all. I'm getting close to being done with the building portion of my p-bass project and I'm trying to decide how to finish it. It's a one piece pine body, maple board on the neck, standard vintage style Fender hardware, black/white/black pickguard:

photobucket-6382-1367968751616_zps05ae4675.jpg


Right now I'm waffling on whether to give it a transparent or solid finish. If I go solid I'll probably just do spray lacquer, black or white. If I go transparent I was thinking of doing something amber/vintage yellow style. My dad is pretty good with finishing things, he used to be a furniture maker before he started building windows, so I've been talking over a bunch of different ways I could do the transparent finish. Right now I'm thinking I would probably lay down a sanding sealer, then a wash coat with a little bit of yellow dye, then some amber/blonde shellac and maybe a clear coat over that.

I'm not that experienced with spray finishes, so anything I do I'm going to do some experiments on some scrap pine first. Any ideas/feedback are welcome.
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I'd go with a heavy sealer since the pine is so soft. Give it a custom stain.

+1 for not giving it a fendery finish.
 
#94
Ron Now said:
I've hated all of Rob Zombies movies. I hated what he did with the Halloween movies, Myers is much more terrifying as an unexplained demon than a product of a broken/abusive household. I'll end up watching lords of salem eventually, but I won't pay to watch it.
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the TCM rip offs he did were cool as far as stupid horror movies go. never saw the halloweens, but cmon, you gotta like house of 1000 corpses.
 
#95
beebassdude said:
you gotta like house of 1000 corpses.
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I love horror, I used to watch excessive amounts of horror movies. I still consider house of 1000 corpses to be one of the worst films I ever watched. I thoroughly disliked everything about it. I think part of it was just so much hype about it, and then when I watched it I was just so let down, I hated it.
 
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Samsquanch1972 said:
That biwax finish looks good!
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I have a love/hate relationship with that stuff. It works really good on some things, crap on others. I finished some oak cabinets we have at work with some of it (in a different color) and they look amazing. I tested some out on a birch tom shell on time...total crap. It might work better with soft wood putting a sealer or wash coat on it first though, I haven't tried it out a lot.


DethByDoom said:
I'd go with a heavy sealer since the pine is so soft. Give it a custom stain.

+1 for not giving it a fendery finish.
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Oh yeah, it'll definitely be getting a hefty coat of sealer. I was figuring on a thick coat of sealer to really soak in and raise the grain, then sanding it down flat, then maybe a wash coat with some light diluted dye to get into the softer areas, then the color. I still don't know what kind of finish I'm going to use yet though, so that will probably have some impact on how I do things. The color will probably inform that somewhat. I'll probably try a couple things out and see what works best before I do the actual body.
 
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