Hello Club,
Hope all is well!
Almost finished with color, and sealer treatment of the bass.
Applied a Watco danish oil natural finish, with the headstock having Natural and Mahogany (better match for body) oil applied.
Along the way, I went too deep in sanding the headstock so had to do a crash course in re-lamination of the headstock with new flamed Koa.
if you look closely, you cna see the different colors of Koa on headstock layer.
all said, pretty happy with it so far.
Still awaiting Mary / Mica with info regarding the electronics. My fingers are crossed.
Frets have been leveled and dressed. The top of the pickups had some grooves from strings I lightly sanded out, and need to polish to make look newer.
Repainted the Conductive paint in the cavity over the silver paint which was either routed or sanded out, and patchy at best.
The oil has to cure for 3 days between coats(very conservative time) and today was the 5th coat.
In a week or so I plan to apply a polyester topcoat to the bass and hopefully conclude the finish side of the restoration, outside of dressing the neck, which is probably covered in tape residue, and been cleaned with acetone a few times too many.
My other newly acquired Spoiler #84S3310, has been a huge help in understanding Alembic electronics layout / Q switches, and has been a joy to get to know more about these awesome basses. Missing three brass screws in back panel.
Does anybody know the size? Smaller than 8/32. 4/32? pretty tiny.
Learning about screw sizes as well...Google search classroom LOL
Here is some undated pictures of bass...
