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Before you do spray anything, wait until the humidity drops below 65%...preferrably below 60%. Any spraying done above 65% humidity will almost certainly result in blushing.

Once the humidity is at a safe level, try misting some clear lacquer over the whole body and let it sit for about 3 hours or so.

Hey Phreek, any updates bro?

Oh and whatever Plaid says I'd do it

Quoted and forwarded to my wife. If I get in trouble, I'm gonna have her kick your ass.

Lol plaid.. dont do anything crazy man!! And hawk... shame on you for inspiring plaid to be foolish!!

So here is the update.
i took a look this morning and all is well! I put 4 more layers of nitro on it today and i have come up with a serious issue.

It looks too pretty for the pickguard i got for it. I dont really know what to get but i dont want to cover up any of the paint! Maybe a small pickup ring ir something.. i dunno

Any ideas?

Check these out...
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Hardware,_parts/Electric_guitar:_Covers_plates/Metal_Mounting_Rings_for_Single-coil_Pickups.html

Or score a transparent pickguard!

I'll bring the mud and put my wife in their with yours (cuz my wife will protect me) and we can kick back and have a beer and ring the bell

Hey Phreek, I'm not even putting a pick guard on mine, but then it is routed for P-90's (Plaid's body actually scored from Chordball) and I think it will look great. But then my whole motif if you will is not going to look like a traditional Tele either.

Love the transparent pickguard idea per Kfuz.

Or these:
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Guitar-Hardware_c_37.html
The first 5 items are strat and tele pickup rings.
-P

I wound up gettin a chrome ring for the neck pup..
I got my last coat of nitro on it today (2 cans total.)
now i aparently have to wait a month before i can sand it and polish it. Just dunno if i am patient enough for waiting that long!!!

Yep, wait a month...you can do it....you can do it I was 30 days on the nose and all was cool. No gumming up or anything. But, as you can see here I had a little trouble and have to start back at 1200 grit wetsand. I just mention to you in case it helps you any

http://www.reranch.com/reranch/viewtopic.php?t=47543

Yeah.. been there man! Oddly the sand and polish steps are pretty much my favorite steps.. dont know why, maybe i like punishment..

Maybe i will feel differently cause its a guitar and not a car.. but i doubt it! Im just ready to see the final product!

Lol as a side note, i was showing a couple people at work pics of this thing and got offers on the body. Im ki.da thinkin of sellin it and making another one and a profit!!

so i couldnt handle the wait anymore.. i wet sanded it then compounded and polished her up!!

mirror finish!!

the neck should finally be here sometime before umm... christmas i'm guessing.

i cant wait to get it finished!

got the neck on it. carved a bone nut. and got most of the rest of it put together.

ordered pup's from gfs. this naughty tele girl should be ready to scream this weekend!!!

What pups did you get for her?

Professional series 60's tele.. 7.8k in both positions.

My big question is what cap should i use? Hell same with my strat. I have a lil bitty ceramic cap in that one.. should i be using something else??

Hey dude, check out the article Lovesguitar linked in this thread

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=36095&start=25

Finally done! I actually enjoyed carving the nut. I went all zen onits arse!
Neck angleis slightly off and the intonation cant be set without modding something.. but it is very playable and sounds awesome!!

One of the coolest tele i've seen!! WOW!

...... and i wired the switch backwards ......

lol, if you have enough wire, just flip it!

But seriously, that tele, with «chopped» bridge and humbucker at bridge..........ohhhh, i'd be to heaven!

Looks fantastic!!

What is the issue with the intonation??

I didnt leave enough slack to flip it... the wire from the switch to the vol pot is short..
lol forgot to mention the vintage russian pio. 047 cap in there..
Damned thing is almost bigger than the pot!

Well.. what had happened was..

I went with no pickguard so the neck needed to fit tighter in the pocket. About a quarter inch movement.. then i realized that the saddles dont go far enough back to compensate.

Total bummer!!

That doesn't make sense.

Scale length has nothing to do with whether there was a pickguard or not.
In either case (pickguard / no pickguard) the neck MUST sit all the way into the pocket.

If the saddles will not adjust SHARP enough (towards the strap button) then either the bridge is misplaced or the neck is the wrong scale length.
The majority of Fender style necks will follow a 25 1/2 inch scale length.
The "scale" is the distance from the nut to the saddle for the HIGH "E" string.
To determine the scale of your neck measure the distance from the nut to the 12th fret and multiply by two.