Sgt. Pepper Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 (edited) 9 minutes ago, kidblast said: yea it could be.. things are starting to move forward. The rebuild parts are arriving and I'm almost ready to start the refinishing work, I will be able to do that at a friend of my son's auto body shop. Who offered to clear coat and buff it out for me too. Nice, what parts have you got? I think you said you were going with Sea Foam Green, if I remember right. Edited February 20, 2022 by Sgt. Pepper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted February 20, 2022 Author Share Posted February 20, 2022 2 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said: Nice, what parts have you got? I think you said you were going with Sea Foam Green, if I remember right. yea Chief it's getting there. Sea Foam Green, already have that on standby 3 chrome mounting plates and the tremolo assembly, with the tone and volume knobs are here. The bridge, trem bar and pick guard (a Fender Mint green one) arrives this week I ordered the neck and the machine heads today, the wiring harness, and pickups. I shall be ordering soon. Once I can confirm all the mount holes line up, (and so far they do) I'll do the final sanding with 1,000 grit and then ready to refinish With any luck this will be done by the end of next month. Fingers crossed! Update photos soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mihcmac Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 I had an XKE for a while, always had parts laying around.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted February 25, 2022 Author Share Posted February 25, 2022 Ready for the repaint/clear coat. neck / wiring harness should be here soon. need to order pickups Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 55 minutes ago, kidblast said: Ready for the repaint/clear coat. neck / wiring harness should be here soon. need to order pickups Hell yeah, coming along nicely. What pups? You gonna go Fender. You can't go wrong with Lindy's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted February 25, 2022 Author Share Posted February 25, 2022 1 hour ago, Sgt. Pepper said: Hell yeah, coming along nicely. What pups? You gonna go Fender. You can't go wrong with Lindy's. thx Cheif. not quite ready to paint yet, I want to practice a bit on a few small project boards. so far so good.. Pickups.. yea.. not sure yet fenders are the more affordable, the duncan and "others" are at least twice as much. could be money well spent tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 12 minutes ago, kidblast said: thx Cheif. not quite ready to paint yet, I want to practice a bit on a few small project boards. so far so good.. Pickups.. yea.. not sure yet fenders are the more affordable, the duncan and "others" are at least twice as much. could be money well spent tho. I get ya, but do you want affordable for ones that are killer? Call Lindy. He will talk to you personally if you ask for him. I've talked to him several times. He will make what you want, remember you get what you pay for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted February 25, 2022 Author Share Posted February 25, 2022 10 minutes ago, Sgt. Pepper said: I get ya, but do you want affordable for ones that are killer? Call Lindy. He will talk to you personally if you ask for him. I've talked to him several times. He will make what you want, remember you get what you pay for. thanks Chief, I may do that. So far it's been a slow process, once I get the body finished, I should have everything on hand to start re-assemling the neck is supposed to arrive today,, but not sure, we're getting hammered with a Nor 'Easter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 1 hour ago, kidblast said: thanks Chief, I may do that. So far it's been a slow process, once I get the body finished, I should have everything on hand to start re-assemling the neck is supposed to arrive today,, but not sure, we're getting hammered with a Nor 'Easter. You get an official Fender neck? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted February 25, 2022 Author Share Posted February 25, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Sgt. Pepper said: You get an official Fender neck? yes, rosewood with dot inlays I was not able to find one that had binding and block inlays. 😞 Edited February 25, 2022 by kidblast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Looks great so far! That finish must have been a pain to strip are you using a filler like aqua coat or something before finishing the body? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share Posted April 13, 2022 On 2/26/2022 at 3:25 PM, Dub-T-123 said: Looks great so far! That finish must have been a pain to strip are you using a filler like aqua coat or something before finishing the body? Just getting back to this now, wasn't bad Dub, some 320 grit sanding was most of it. the contour's were the tricky parts I did apply some grain filler I ordered from stew mac, it wasn't easy to work with but it got the job done. I just had the clear coat applied, I put the base coat on a few weeks ago,,took some trial and error to find a "Sea foam green" I was liking. There's a ton of variations on this color base. any where from what looks like sonic blue to some thing a bit more "Green" than below. it's going to setup for a day or so, then the guys at the auto body shop who did the clear coat for me, are going to wet sand and do the final buffing. I was told all they want is beer money.. wait ? What? A few cases of ale? can it be this easy??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Looks killer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted April 14, 2022 Author Share Posted April 14, 2022 4 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said: Looks killer. getting there, poly needs to cure and then get a wet sand and final buff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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