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This weekend, I began to shoot additional top coats. In these pictures the ziricote is beginning to level and fill but it still has a few coats to go before it's level. I shot a little bit of "instant bar room funk" on the maple neck. My buddy wanted an old maple look so this is what I came up with. It is UV-aged nitro with amber and brown tints added. OK, that's pretty much caught up to real time. I've completed the finish coats on the neck. (We're leaving it in a satin sheen) The body continues to get more top coats. I had to take a step back today and drop-fill a few pores that just refused to fill up. So, it only has a couple of top coats at this point. I should be done with the body tomorrow. Then the whole works will hang for a month before it is level sanded, buffed and assembled. Now I need to get back to the Special build.

Last weekend, I got started shooting a few sealer coats on my buddy''s Strat. Here are a few pics. Once this dried, I applied pore filler to the ziricote and sanded back numerous times... I think it was at least 6 times. Ziricote is a nightmare to get filled.

Wow, you only started twelve years ago?! And only three years of experience with guitars? I would have guessed with this brilliant level of work that you had been doing it your whole life!

God that's beautiful.

Here is some more progress on the cherry/ziricote Strat build. Installing the trem bushings with a very special hammer. Mounted the neck and installed the trem. Tuners were installed. Wired up the pickguard. This one is getting the SD Everything Axe set. Wired humbucking by default with coil splitting push/pull on the volume pot to split the bridge and neck pickups. The middle pickup isn't suitable for splitting. Assembled and ready for a test drive. Here it is sitting next to its sibling. Next up is moving on to finishing, which I just started this past week. So, this thread is nearly in real time now. More soon.