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Good news its almost done... finish just top coats to do. Hoping to have it all done by around 16 August! will post more pics soon Coco looks even better under a finish!

Pic of after build coats done. I dont have a spray booth so using a local Pro's facilities

stunning , I'll bet she'll sound great!

Awesome!
I really like the neck carving.
Excellent work.

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Well - a busy week saw the completion of this project - after fair amount of time.... with one dumb-ass mistake, which means another week or so before delivery - notice the hole without the active tone pot? - well pot simply broke when jently pressing on the control knob...with metel rotating thing pushing through and jiggering it... so now have to wait for EMG replacement VLPF pot ($39!!!!) to be shipped out before I can complete and hand over - Only 2nd instrument completed, after 1 acoustic and 0.5 tenor acoustic, so 1st electric build and am quite pleased with how its turned out - customer (my friend) v happy as well.

Finbal details, finish is a melamine 2 part solvent based lacquer - so had to use a local friends spray booth, but v easy to apply - no grain filling required, just a couplpe of mist coats to start, then 6-7 'filler coats, with a flat sand after 3 and after 6 and 7, then 2 final top coats before 1500 grit cut back and then polish... comes up a treat.

Have the sister set of that Cocobolo so second one is already being planned!

Very nice work , really came out gorgeous!