{"id":398,"date":"2013-05-27T20:54:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T20:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=398"},"modified":"2013-05-27T20:57:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T20:57:37","slug":"body-finished-almost-may-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Body Finished (Almost) &#8211; May 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar3\/17-bodyFinished.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After 9 coats of Tru-oil, wet sanding between most of them with P2000, I&#8217;m calling time on the finish. After levelling the finish, I found I was struggling to get the shine back. After reading online about people using some polishing compounds, I remember I had a Fender polishing kit in the house. After a lot of elbow work and the scratch removing compound (which I&#8217;m guessing is just T-Cut in a different form), the body is &#8220;done&#8221;. It has a lot of little issues, but for a first attempt at using Tru-oil and staining on a guitar I&#8217;m happy.<\/p>\n<p>In the test fit, I found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The neck pickup screws are too long. Shorter ones ordered from Ebay&#8230;..<\/li>\n<li>The finish has made the pickup selectors hole to small, it needs sanding a touch wider<\/li>\n<li>The capacitor I used on the tone control is huge and just annoying. It should fit with some bending of the legs<\/li>\n<li> The strings are never going to align with the pole pieces on the neck pickup &#8211; but hey. If it&#8217;s a problem I could always get a blade style pickup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once I&#8217;ve fixed these little issues and bought the bridge pickup &#8211; maybe a Lindy Fralin P90- the guitar body should be pretty much &#8220;done&#8221;, bar a bit of soldering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 9 coats of Tru-oil, wet sanding between most of them with P2000, I&#8217;m calling time on the finish. After levelling the finish, I found I was struggling to get the shine back. After reading online about people using some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=398\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guitar-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}