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#328,921
ectoflanger said:
I'm thinking my Jazz bass neck saga has just opened a can of worms and these various posts on refinishing were the can opener-

It got me to thinking about purchasing unfinished parts, except perhaps the necks which often come finished and build a frankenjazz or other body style- along with the Trian Porter interview where he talks about his Franken Jazz basses,

On my parents property is a large barn with three bays that used to be a wood workshop before the purchased the property. Dad himself had a wood lathe, bandsaw, drlll press and table saw.

While I have minimal wood working skills, I believe I could learn to put a finish on a guitar body, having spent many hours performing fiberglass work on my self boat. Although I ultimately went with paint I did bring some areas with gel coat to a mirror finish with wettable sandpaper down to 3000 grit.

I own a couple of 3M respirators with extra P100 cartridges and a Makita buffer. The only thing I regret is I gave away my gallon jug of 3M Imperial buffing compound wihen I decided to with paint, as gel coat is a pain to apply apart from small area repairs.

Figure I need to get a small compressor, water separator, and paint gun, and put together some kind of spray booth. Or in the right conditions I may be able to hang the hardware from a tree as in your photos-

Any pointers or instructional literature recommendations would be appreciated- from various postings I know there's a lot of you endowed with an uncanny amount of technical and practical sense.


This is the building - might set up the booth in the far bay to the right which is separated by wall with one entrance to the main bay- I could move some stuff around and set up toward the back-

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Overall it's a pretty spacious place- these shots are of the first and second bays from the inside- in the second pic you can see the wood lathe against the wall- perhaps I can shuffle things around and set up there -

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Also further to the right, seen to the right of the tractor steering wheel is a door that opens into is a store room around 8 x 6 feet - perhaps that couldt work as a paint booth-

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At any rate, it wouldn't necessarily a permanent structure, just something to allow me to try it out and see how I like it-
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Now that’s what I call a tractor!
 
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#328,922
ectoflanger said:
Wonder if one of them inspired "You're No Good"? Loved that song as a kid when it came out in 1975. Great production and guitar sounds inspiring me to want to play. And reminiscing it was about the same time that "Philadelphia Freedom" came out.
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She didn't write "You're no Good", but it is a great track!
 
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#328,924
ectoflanger said:
I'm thinking my Jazz bass neck saga has just opened a can of worms and these various posts on refinishing were the can opener-

It got me to thinking about purchasing unfinished parts, except perhaps the necks which often come finished and build a frankenjazz or other body style- along with the Trian Porter interview where he talks about his Franken Jazz basses,

On my parents property is a large barn with three bays that used to be a wood workshop before the purchased the property. Dad himself had a wood lathe, bandsaw, drlll press and table saw.

While I have minimal wood working skills, I believe I could learn to put a finish on a guitar body, having spent many hours performing fiberglass work on my self boat. Although I ultimately went with paint I did bring some areas with gel coat to a mirror finish with wettable sandpaper down to 3000 grit.

I own a couple of 3M respirators with extra P100 cartridges and a Makita buffer. The only thing I regret is I gave away my gallon jug of 3M Imperial buffing compound wihen I decided to with paint, as gel coat is a pain to apply apart from small area repairs.

Figure I need to get a small compressor, water separator, and paint gun, and put together some kind of spray booth. Or in the right conditions I may be able to hang the hardware from a tree as in your photos-

Any pointers or instructional literature recommendations would be appreciated- from various postings I know there's a lot of you endowed with an uncanny amount of technical and practical sense.


This is the building - might set up the booth in the far bay to the right which is separated by wall with one entrance to the main bay- I could move some stuff around and set up toward the back-

View attachment 7348273

View attachment 7348274

View attachment 7348275

Overall it's a pretty spacious place- these shots are of the first and second bays from the inside- in the second pic you can see the wood lathe against the wall- perhaps I can shuffle things around and set up there -

View attachment 7348276

View attachment 7348278

Also further to the right, seen to the right of the tractor steering wheel is a door that opens into is a store room around 8 x 6 feet - perhaps that couldt work as a paint booth-

View attachment 7348279

At any rate, it wouldn't necessarily a permanent structure, just something to allow me to try it out and see how I like it-
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You have far more space than I do! There's lots of info here in the Luthier's corner and elsewhere online on constructing a spray booth.
 
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dagrev said:
Thanks. Must be something in my part of the world.
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AWS on the US East coast having major DNS issues since around midnight.

But when the internet is everywhere, so are the bugs.

Just had a meeting rescheduled because SmartSheets wouldnt open, so meeting was without the subject.

Living in the future is amazingly fragile.
 
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Just because

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BuddhaFingas said:
AWS on the US East coast having major DNS issues since around midnight.

But when the internet is everywhere, so are the bugs.

Just had a meeting rescheduled because SmartSheets wouldnt open, so meeting was without the subject.

Living in the future is amazingly fragile.
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Thanks. I tested the ATT network and the Mesh wifi and they were both good on the phone using their apps. But when I do a speed test on my yr old MacBook Pro, with various browsers I get slow download speeds and normal (high) upload speed. I need to restart everything when no one is using it.
 
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BuddhaFingas said:
AWS on the US East coast having major DNS issues since around midnight.

But when the internet is everywhere, so are the bugs.

Just had a meeting rescheduled because SmartSheets wouldnt open, so meeting was without the subject.

Living in the future is amazingly fragile.
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Had an internet outage around 3 PM yesterday until around 9 pm here in NW Florida -
 
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