Doing Things Wrong

COVID-19 Update

It's been a while since I did any loothering, let alone posting, but here is an update in the middle of this terrible pandemic.

Bass

I shot a coat of poly over the Factor bass body and hung it up for what is now about two months, so it should be good and hard for final polishing.

Guitar

I did the same on the guitar about a month ago.

Ooohh shiny !

Today I put a final polish on the Mosrite body, hand-rubbed with Meguiar's. The initial polish was with my cloth wheel setup. Very shiny now, and ready for final assembly.

Here's a hint: dump your Meguiar's (or anything else) in a wide-mouthed jar and daub it out with a rag when you use it. Slit the bottle lengthwise and scoop out everything that would otherwise go to waste.

The worst packaging I have ever seen is Loctite Go2 Glue. You can get only about 10% of the glue out of the bottle, then the rest is just stuck. Not dried-up, but impossible to squeeze out. It's a pity, because it is actually pretty good stuff, just horrible packaging.


This is the latest Ric project. I tried to use a Gibson-style nut, but it just can't cope with the Rickenbacker geometry. If you make the string slots deep enough to keep the strings from jumping out sideways, you end up over-cutting them, even with the 1.5mm shim I already installed because I was expecting that.

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