Benjamin Brockway Strings
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I kinda forget the purpose of that plug I’ve had so little Fender guitars brought to me the last few years. It’s a Gibson world I’m livin’ in these days. Cool to see this. Took me on a trip down memory lane
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Looks great. Nice work!
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https://homesteadfinishingproducts.com/vivitone-solvent-based-micronized-pigment-colorants/
Looks like VivoTone is discontinued as well. Probably the same stuff as Colortone.
Not having luck finding anything other than the Mixol so maybe it’s gotta be Mixol? I haven’t played much with powdered pigments. Is that an option?
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ViviTone ™ Pigment Colorants for Waterbase and Lacquer - Homestead Finishing Products
ViviTone ™ Pigment Colorants are not "universal" colorants, meaning they are specific to a particular solvent or finish medium.
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Also the truss rod nut might be pushing that part out. If that’s the case you may actually have to take it out and correct the hole. Contact the owner after you have a good idea what’s going on and figure out how you want to proceed from there. Things like this come up all the time which the owner didn’t ask you to fix but you’re the professional and you see it and it should be addressed so just make sure you talk the client and get paid appropriately for your labor and problem solving skills
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It could be fixed as easily as pushing it back into place then wicking some thin CA around the joint with a drop-fill pick. I can’t think of why you’d have to take that part out clean it up and put it back in. Someone correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t believe that part is adding structural integrity. I’ve been there before and I recall taking the part out and gluing it back in but I don’t know if it was necessary and I probably burned 30 mins of shop time just out of curiosity.
Contact the owner and see if they’re interested in paying you to get all neurotic dealing with that otherwise push, wick and move on?
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Also, at the time I believe I quoted that job at $200-250 which is disgusting. I don’t do that anymore and I recommend nobody else do it either. That’s how you end up with entitled a-holes hitting you up for stuff
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Dug it out of storage. I love old catalog guitars but I’ve worked on a lot for people for what amounts to no pay for myself or this one for example where I put I’d say $600 into it to have it abandoned and sit with me for years. I do like it so it’s a small consolation. Put another $400-500 into it and it’ll be sweet!
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I have a Harmony Bobcat that came into my possession due to a similar story.
It came to me with the board off of it and the finish stripped. I did the work to reglue the board and did a job I was truly proud of with the finish. The burst would pass for the original to my first, second and third glances but after I got the neck back on and strung it up I discovered the pickups were dead. The owner was a huge dando about it throwing a hissy fit at me over the phone. This thing came to me in pieces and nothing was mentioned re: the electronics but still I kinda blamed myself for not investigating before diving in. Anyways … that guy apologized to me later but he still abandoned the guitar and it’s mine now. Been in it’s unfinished state since that disheartening sequence of events.
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If you wish to save it then yes, replace that steel bar with a truss rod or carbon fiber and straighten it out before you reglue the board.
Are the original pickups still with the guitar?
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That guy: “Looks like a fun little man cave you have here”
Me: 🤢
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That is tempting. I don’t know that I understand the explanation of the color coding and the “The air spindles are custom fit to the individual base” but most people will need two bases?? I’ll have to check it out later when I haven’t been up all night spraying lacquer and moving stuff around on monster energy drinks
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Man…
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Thank you, Ian! The Kremer pigments look cool for a lot of things. I’m gonna give them a spin. I appreciate it.
If you do hear anything about Mohawk products pigments I’m curious as I do order from them on occasion.
homesteadfinishingproducts.com
ViviTone ™ Pigment Colorants for Waterbase and Lacquer - Homestead Finishing Products
ViviTone ™ Pigment Colorants are not "universal" colorants, meaning they are specific to a particular solvent or finish medium.
