Filler

This is her, neck off and all electronics removed. As you can see there in spray paint in the neck joint, this is a big no no, ill have to work on getting that out of there. The reason you shouldn't have paint in your joint (insert laugh here for all you stoners) is because you need a wood on close to wood bond where the neck and body meet in order to get the most tonality out of the wood. The spray-paint (a lesser dense material) muffles the tone between both woods which can result in a less resonant guitar. All in all this doesn't matter because theres going to be an EMG being reinstalled and active pickups IMO do not take on tonality as much as a passive would.

So the next step is to find scrap wood and cut the fillers. I used scrap wood (this isn't recomemended) but because im not to picky on this project about wood type i don't really mind. This body is cedar with a flame veneer, so ideally i should have used cedar filler but i used a mystery wood and it should hold up fine.

After fitting the fillers which consists of sanding and filling i then filled the pup routs with epoxy as my filler of choice. This is a very messy job and this stuff gets everywhere. Here is a pic of the gobbly-goop every where.

Looks like a mess because thats exactly what it is haha, theres a good 1/4 inch rise from the body to the fillers so it should take a bit to get them sanded flush.

and so the sanding begins...

just keep strumming,

-Anthony

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