Long time no post, sorry guys! Things have been a bit hectic since September, so sadly I’ve neglected the blog a bit. Had lots of stuff going on, finding a new job and settling in and so forth. Plus all the insanity that comes with christmas too. But that being said I’ll be getting back…
This time things went much better. So having failed dismally at putting a woodstain on the guitar, I started thinking about what else I could do to make it work. I considered painting it by hand with brown paint to kind of give a faux woodstain finish, but decided against it, as I felt it…
I’ll start by saying this did not go to plan …But more on that later. So I started up with putting on a wood stain, to try and get a natural wood finish. The next set of multiple pictures are how glorious the wood finish looked on it: As you can see, this actually looked…
Stripping the old girl down… So first steps, remove all parts and sand off the paint. Here’s some sanding I did earlier… Whilst I was sanding it, I came to a startling realisation: This thing is plywood. Needless to say, this is not what I was expecting. Still, onwards and upwards! As you can see…
I have no idea how old this guitar is. This was my brother’s first guitar, a Peavey Raptor. He bought it secondhand for £60.00 ($102.00), well over ten years ago. Basically a beginner’s strat. When he first got it, it was gloss black and standard SSS configuration. Here’s the state I got it in: As…
Moose's Shed 