Recent content by Ted. Wu

Having finished the clear coats, waiting 2 weeks for wet sanding and buffing. It's very glossy right now, I plan to make a satin look.

Thanks a lot! Patience is definitely not my strong point either. Since it’s my first build and first time spraying, every time I finish a coat I have to peek… and then I start “fixing” tiny flaws, which usually creates even more flaws.:ROFLMAO: I’m finally learning to just spray, walk away...

I repainted both the neck and the body this week, completing from sealer to color coats. Since I was using an aerosol can with an external paint-bottle attachment, following the usual recommended spray distance and pass speed only resulted in dry spray. So I stripped off all the previous finish...

I have receive the pickups, hand-wired by my friend. I have noticed that the vintage tele body made by warmoth has swallow depth pickup routs around 16mm. The height of the pickup is 16mm, and I should have 5-6mm spacing for the soldering and wire under the pickups. I am not sure about whether...

It has been applied 2 color coats, and I still have to apply 1 more color coat. I have bought yellow iron oxide, considering to add this color in the 3rd coat to add more vintage vibe

after 2 rounds of sanding and repair, waiting for the appropriate tempreture and humidity (around 60F and 91% recently) to continue...

Logo today

Working on color coats today. The neck's finishing is surprisingly excellent, with my recipe of vintage tint. (0.18g yellow pigment, 0.6g 2% red pigment, 50g thinned clear lacquer) I have met a problem of painting the body when doing the first color coat. I have made a mistake that attempting...

It‘s funny lol I live in China, this house is an old one built in 1970s, and it did reference to the building method and style from Russia at that time. I spend my childhood around 6 to 14 at this old house. This house is near my workplace so that I will come as a rest place during working days...

sealers today

Here... the body and the neck comes...

The post told me that the body and neck will be coming in 1 or 2 days. One more round of testing color, with slight adjustment, the butterscotch one is more like yellowish orange, and the photo taken with the phone appears slightly redder than what the eye sees...

I am planning to print the stickers with the water transfer paper, the logo will be my son's name

I have searched many books, and I did find that there's many different colors and variations from the 1951 to 1952. As you mentioned the medium tone, actually it is under the sunlight, so it looks more creamy in the normal light, a bit similar to Dang's.

Last month, I met an alder Tele body with a grain that instantly sold me. So… I pulled the trigger and decided to build a vintage-leaning Telecaster. Vintage Tele® Replacement Body Alder One Piece Right-Handed Vintage Telecaster® No Paint Telecaster® Replacement Guitar Neck...