Fernando makes my dream come true.

[Nando Vallart]

Sensacional!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :icon_biggrin: :toothy10:

 

[mullyman]

Greg,


Every time you do one of these, I think to myself at this stage of the proceedings who cool it would be to have a yellow guitar, because you do such an awesome job.  Then you apply the burst and I say to myself, man, who would want a yellow guitar when you can have THIS?


Thanks for sharing your work and knowledge.


Bagman

Better words have not been spoken. I love watching you do this stuff, man!!
MULLY

 

[Cagey]

I love watching you do this stuff, man!!

You and me, both.

Most guitar finishing threads I see are adventures in modern chemistry. I usually get my best information from furniture finishers, but they usually have a different agenda so it's not always as useful as it could be. Greg gives us good information that's pertinent, practical and professional, as well as based on solid experience in the field we care about. Gotta love that.

 

[Tonar8352]

Thank you all, I really enjoy doing it! 

After spending 32 years selling paint the best lesson I learned is that no one knows more about applying material than the painter. So much information about material application is from the manufacture of the material and they will always cover their own tail from litigation by telling the story from a chemists' sterile little lab point of view.  I have seen painters do things that were so "against the rules of applications" and have had them tell me about product changes before the company admitted to changing formulas. I learned to listen to those guys and gals.

I try to tell the story from the applicators point of view because that is the real world. As long as you all continue to enjoy these threads I'll keep at it.

Greg

 

[pabloman]

ccasion14:

 

[Great Ape]

I'm SWOONING....this whole thing, the guitar & Greg walking us through it, is just too cool! Thank You!!

 

[Nando Vallart]

Thank you all, I really enjoy doing it! 

After spending 32 years selling paint the best lesson I learned is that no one knows more about applying material than the painter. So much information about material application is from the manufacture of the material and they will always cover their own tail from litigation by telling the story from a chemists' sterile little lab point of view.  I have seen painters do things that were so "against the rules of applications" and have had them tell me about product changes before the company admitted to changing formulas. I learned to listen to those guys and gals.

I try to tell the story from the applicators point of view because that is the real world. As long as you all continue to enjoy these threads I'll keep at it.

Greg

Really happy to hear it... I try to say to the engineers at my work: is not because somebody wrote it in a book that it may occur exactly as its written, my job is to "fix" physics

You guys have no idea how much anxious I am to have it! I *REALLY* wants to buy a neck and have Greg finish it together, but I'm a little short of money with this project and may end building a neck by my own... lets see what happens!
You know what? I think that in 20 years people will say about Greg's bursts as they say of Tim Shawn pickups, Tom Murphy relics, Abigail Ybarra, Maricella Juarez and so on And I'm having one

 

[Tonar8352]

Happy Burst-Day Fernando. 1954 style 2-tone sunburst.

 

[Cagey]

Gorgeous, as always. Very nice job. Fernando's gotta be having anxiety attacks waiting to get this in his hands.

 

[Nando Vallart]

:headbang: :blob7:
Awesome!!!!! Can't wait!!!!!

 

[Tonar8352]

Here it is level sanded before the final coats.

 

[Cagey]

I don't know... that neck looks awfully thin...

And that finish looks a bit dull...

You can do better. I've seen it.

Don't give up now. Breathe. Have a beer. Smoke a cigarette. A little fretwork, a little wiring, a bit of polishing... maybe some hardware... It'll come to life. I have faith.

 

[TroubledTreble]

:icon_thumright: That's mine kinda burst! That looks great. Nice work!

I agree, that neck looks questionable. Better not windmill that thing.  :tard:

 

[stubhead]

When does the Hello Kitty sticker go on?

 

[Nando Vallart]

Man, one word: Perfect!

 

[pabloman]

That is gorgeous!!!!

 

[riverbluff]

That is just gonna be stellar!  I love the classic bursts...

 

[SlartiBartfast]

When does the Hello Kitty sticker go on?

:toothy12: :laughing8:

 

[jay4321]

I'm not gonna lie, I think you should have stopped here.

 

[hannaugh]

Wow, awesome project.  Congrats Fernando!  ccasion14: