Bob's Guitar.... Getting Close!

Just as way of intro, Bob had so hoped to have a beautiful green finish on the guitar, but as luck would have it the paint was not available locally, and to order it would have delayed having the instrument completed in time, given all the layers of finish, drying time and polishing.    Well, there's always a silver lining!   I think the wood grain is gorgeous as it is!    Here's what Bob has to say!

Well, fellow grads, here is the latest on the guitar.  Obviously, it's not green.  I had some technical difficulties, and didn't have time to sort them out in order for the paint to be dry enough to polish out by the reunion.  So it's a "what-you-see-is-what-you-get!" finish.  I wired it up and it seems to play just fine (as far as I can tell), but after I do a little more set-up work, I will hand it over to a couple of  local musicians to test it out.  In two-three weeks, I will take it back down and polish it.  Won't be much to show till it gets polished and reassembled.

 To the left is a pretty accurate rendition of the color as it appears on the guitar.  I still have the cover plates to do, but that should be no problem.

 

The truss rod nut cover that is missing here will be put on last.

The photo below should give you some idea of the color of the front of the guitar.  Bear in mind it still has to be level sanded with various grits of sandpaper, the last being somewhere around 1500 or 200 grit, then it gets polishing compound.  Needless to say, it will come apart for that, then get cleaned up and put back together for the last time.

It's been a blast, folks.  I hope to get a sound clip of someone playing it, but can't promise.  I would like to have it played at the reunion, if there are any volunteers that can help.   Let me know if anyone is available.  If not, I'll try to finagle someone into showing up and playing a couple of licks on it.

Hope it meets everyones fancy.