After weeks of trying, this weekend I finally obtained the epoxy resin I want to use to make custom inlays. Since I want to use quite an extensive pattern for my fret inlays (I'll keep the actual shape a secret for now, so I can always back out), I thought it would be easier to model them, than it would be to cut them from Mother of Pearl, which is too fancy to use on a guitar called The War Machine annyway. To test it thouroughly I bought 2 grades of the stuff: normal and superfine. Last night I carved a (very bad and ugly) T into a piece of Pine wood, and filled it up with the standard issue resin. The mixing of this stiff reminded me a bit of playing with modeling clay back in pre school. Got it stuffed in now, and hopefully this evening I'll find some time to sand of the excess resin. Hopefully this will reveil a nice T-shape wich I will need to test on strength. More later...
zondag 28 februari 2010
I feel like I'm back in pre school
After weeks of trying, this weekend I finally obtained the epoxy resin I want to use to make custom inlays. Since I want to use quite an extensive pattern for my fret inlays (I'll keep the actual shape a secret for now, so I can always back out), I thought it would be easier to model them, than it would be to cut them from Mother of Pearl, which is too fancy to use on a guitar called The War Machine annyway. To test it thouroughly I bought 2 grades of the stuff: normal and superfine. Last night I carved a (very bad and ugly) T into a piece of Pine wood, and filled it up with the standard issue resin. The mixing of this stiff reminded me a bit of playing with modeling clay back in pre school. Got it stuffed in now, and hopefully this evening I'll find some time to sand of the excess resin. Hopefully this will reveil a nice T-shape wich I will need to test on strength. More later...
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