Swing Out Sister ~ Luthiery Laboratories

September 18, 2020

Swing Out Sister

September 18, 2020

I've liked this band ( duo actually ) since the first time I saw this video on the UHF video channel because we didn't have cable. Corinne Drewery is not like today's squeaky singers, she can hit the high notes, and the low ones too - listen. This was their first and biggest hit.

I remember when she sweeps her hand across the screen, the video went from black-and-white to color. This is entirely black-and-white.

Hey, I found that version

No lip-syncing for this one, she hits every note every time, live. With Level 42 as a backup band !!! That's two great jazz-pop outfits that got very little airplay back in the day. Now I hear them at the supermarket. The audio sync is a little off towards the end.

The band's original bass player was the keyboard player's left hand, as the old joke goes. Mark King is much better.

Here's a great old Motown standard

Music, 09/18/20

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Finishing

Black Polyurethane body. This is during the polishing process, you can see it is not even clean. The front came out like black glass. I smoothed the orange-peel with 1500 grit wet, then 2000 and 3000. Then I switched to the random orbital with a red sponge cutting pad and Turtle Wax rubbing compound that claims to remove 1200 scratches. Shouldn't be any 1200 scratches, since I started with 1500. That came out shiny, but with swirl marks in the light. Then I switched to another red cutting pad with Meguiar's Ultimate Compound, and finally a softer yellow pad with the same Meguiar's. At that point, it was pretty much a factory finish. I didn't work as hard on the back, it is nice, but will soon enough encounter a zipper or belt buckle, so the effort would be wasted.

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