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Building my first body.

No just paint the cavity black and move on, get this one done and under your belt, learn from this and do another one
 
line6man said:
Yeah, seeing people leave their Warmoth bodies' trem cavities unfinished is one of my pet peeves.  It looks terrible, especially with solid finishes over Alder/Ash.

Even if you have no finishing experience, it's not difficult, nor expensive, nor time consuming to give the raw wood a coat of paint or dye.

IIRC you can ask to have it finished...
 
line6man said:
Has anyone used black metal pickup rings?
Yes both sorts, Strat & Humbucker, only Flat ones thou, the Strat's were from StewMac & Humbuckers from the big W
Have used in Chrome too.
2 of my latest Strat's have them on & a earlier one called 'The Cigar'  :icon_biggrin:

 
I'm wondering if they would look nice here. They certainly would seem less cheap than flimsy plastic. I like the look of naked humbuckers in matching rings though.
 
I think the metal rings are a bit more classy than the plastic ones, but either way you get to hide the routed cavity edges and close up the holes a bit, so you can't lose.
 
I think metal rings look really good on some solid colored guitars, where there isn't that much to look at. However, there are plenty of times when I think it looks great on really figured woods too. It's just one of those things that I like what I like haha.

For the longest time I could never tell what made some plastic parts look cheap, and other look not cheap, but I finally found it that it is all in the prep of the plastic. I saw a thread the other day (god help me if I can find it) where a guy wet sanded and buffed out all of the plastic to get rid of the flashing/mold lines etc. and the plastic looked sooo good afterwards. Nice and uniform black and very shiny.
 
line6man said:
Alfang said:
No just paint the cavity black and move on, get this one done and under your belt, learn from this and do another one

Learn what?

Learn that when you're not doing a solid finish, top thickness matters if you want a recessed Floyd and don't want funky contrast.  Which I think we've already learned, but there it is.  I personally like the exposed maple, but can see why one might find it aesthetically objectionable. 
 
I got the bottle of Fiebing's leather dye that I ordered today. It was only $3 on Amazon, and shipped free, since I had over $25 worth of crap in the cart. :blob7:
It's a leather dye, but StewMac markets it as fretboard Ebonizer. It apparently works quite well for that. If anyone here has been considering "ebonizing" their streaky fretboard (I hate stains, personally.), this is what it does to Ebony and Rosewood:
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Anyways, I applied the dye to the trem recess cavity, and pickup cavities. The Walnut and Maple took it right in, but the Bubinga didn't want to take it, so I had to do a few applications to soak it in.
I got a bit of it onto the top of the body, but it should sand off.
Here is a picture after the first application:
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My 34mm brass Floyd block came today.  :icon_smile:
The stock 42mm block was simply too deep, and stuck out the back of the trem cavity.
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This new brass block adds about 20lbs to the guitar's weight, btw. :blob7:
 
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