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So this guitar here is the aria that I picked up some weeks back. It caught my interest at the thrift store because it had a seymour Duncan mini humbucker in the bridge and the mid and neck had staggered pole pieces leading me to believe they might be something kinda nice as well.
The thing was beat to shit. It had big gouges that went through the finish and strait into the wood. I wanted to flip the guitar for a little profit after making a few pro-level mods to it but in in its currant state it is pretty sorry looking.
So with all these wood gouges, a natural wood or sunburst finish is out of the question. So, I plan on making this guitar black with a satin clear coat. Since it doesn't much mater whats under that black paint I decided to use this guitar as a guinea pig for a product I just picked up for doing another repair.
This: http://www.amazon.com/24-Hour-Epoxy-1-0oz-Tube/dp/B00366H1E8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1311844327&sr=8-2
Is shafting epoxy ment to glue steal golf club heads to graphite shafts. It supposedly has "High lap shear strength of 4500psi" when fully cured and given that it smelled like a kind of Hi Sol I would believe it. I used this stuff to drop fill all those gouges so I can get a nice flat surface to apply new finish to.
The stuff worked pretty well so far. It has an amazingly long open time so I was able to work with it for well over 15 minutes. It has the consistency of axle grease and like many epoxie glues is thinnable and cleanable with a little alcohol. Since I just did these fills this afternoon and it takes 24 hours to cure, it will be tomorrow evening before I can see how sandable this stuff is but having worked with this family of epoxies before, I foresee no complications.
The tape is on the sides to contain some fills I did on the sides and near the edges. These drop fills (like most if not all drop fills) are meant to be sanded and refinished after they dry and not lay completely flush with the finish. I aslo too the time to dab a bit of this stuff in all the pickgaurd screw holes so they will be less prone to stripping when I put all the hardware back on. I also had to fill in the hole were the person mounted a strap botton to the wrong horn (the one on the left) because they had set this right handed guitar up to play lefty.
The thing was beat to shit. It had big gouges that went through the finish and strait into the wood. I wanted to flip the guitar for a little profit after making a few pro-level mods to it but in in its currant state it is pretty sorry looking.
So with all these wood gouges, a natural wood or sunburst finish is out of the question. So, I plan on making this guitar black with a satin clear coat. Since it doesn't much mater whats under that black paint I decided to use this guitar as a guinea pig for a product I just picked up for doing another repair.
This: http://www.amazon.com/24-Hour-Epoxy-1-0oz-Tube/dp/B00366H1E8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1311844327&sr=8-2
Is shafting epoxy ment to glue steal golf club heads to graphite shafts. It supposedly has "High lap shear strength of 4500psi" when fully cured and given that it smelled like a kind of Hi Sol I would believe it. I used this stuff to drop fill all those gouges so I can get a nice flat surface to apply new finish to.
The stuff worked pretty well so far. It has an amazingly long open time so I was able to work with it for well over 15 minutes. It has the consistency of axle grease and like many epoxie glues is thinnable and cleanable with a little alcohol. Since I just did these fills this afternoon and it takes 24 hours to cure, it will be tomorrow evening before I can see how sandable this stuff is but having worked with this family of epoxies before, I foresee no complications.
The tape is on the sides to contain some fills I did on the sides and near the edges. These drop fills (like most if not all drop fills) are meant to be sanded and refinished after they dry and not lay completely flush with the finish. I aslo too the time to dab a bit of this stuff in all the pickgaurd screw holes so they will be less prone to stripping when I put all the hardware back on. I also had to fill in the hole were the person mounted a strap botton to the wrong horn (the one on the left) because they had set this right handed guitar up to play lefty.
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202 is set in as little as 90m minutes. East to paint too.
202 is set in as little as 90m minutes. East to paint too.
You could just make a guitar body out of that stuff from the looks of it :)
You will see the reason I went with this stuff though after I show you the repair I bought it for. I needed something that would be incredibly strong, filling, durable and viscus. The guitar I was repairing was had play wood back and sides and had the misfortune of falling off a very high hanger. It landed right on its endpin resulting in a major structural fracture. Other than what it did to the lower bout hoever the guitar looked fine and its a Cort OM with a solid spruce top so I figured for $20 It was worth a try to get it fixed up and sold.
You will see the reason I went with this stuff though after I show you the repair I bought it for. I needed something that would be incredibly strong, filling, durable and viscus. The guitar I was repairing was had play wood back and sides and had the misfortune of falling off a very high hanger. It landed right on its endpin resulting in a major structural fracture. Other than what it did to the lower bout hoever the guitar looked fine and its a Cort OM with a solid spruce top so I figured for $20 It was worth a try to get it fixed up and sold.
I think I got 20 OZ of Crystal clear 202 for 30 bucks. It seems to have the properties you are looking for too.
If you are ever looking for new ideas, and materials check out smooth-on. I have made my own tools with this stuff. I have a funny video I made actually now that I think about it.
http://youtu.be/5mACJ2psan8
If you are ever looking for new ideas, and materials check out smooth-on. I have made my own tools with this stuff. I have a funny video I made actually now that I think about it.
http://youtu.be/5mACJ2psan8
Is it meant for glueing or casting though? I would be concerned that it wouldn't really have the same bonding strength of something like this epoxy I am using. That being said, for drop fills this might be amazing, particularly if it has the same density as a poly guitar finish. The super glue drop fills are always noticable because they shrink a little hen you polish them out. You could also do some sort of decoupage finish with this stuff your showing me. That would be pretty cool to do if you found the right stuff to do it with. I immediately envisioned using butterfly wings, as barbaric as it would be to the poor little butterflies it would be a really bitchin guitar finish.
It has a very good bonding effect depending on what you are bonding it to. With wood I can say for sure that it dose indeed bond annoyingly well. My work table is a very good example of this property. As to this day if any spills out of my silicon molds I have to use a planer to forcefully remove it before it sets. Anything that is a really smooth will give it some trouble, but divots in wood would be a good example of something it hold annoyingly well.
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