Looking at it, the break looks quite an easy one to fix (words you think you'll never utter, part deuxieme), so as that is the crux of things, I broke out the Titebond and some clamps and gave it a go. It went together beautifully, which feels a result right now.
I'm in a total quandary about the finish. I've always loved glossily-cherrified SGs, but I am tempted to give it a corroded copper blue finish. As I say it isn't going to be a Jooky, but it doesn't stop me wanting to play. Other than that, I have all the parts and even have an SG wiring loom out of a Gibbo I picked-up somewhere for some reason, so it is just pickups to decide on. I'm thinking PAF plus P90 as per my default usual setting, but then I always am. Maybe I should try something different just for appearances sake.
Plus I see it as a bit of a test bed of a geetar, and getting back to the finish, corrosionificationing it would let me try out the hard wax over corroded copper effect over a period of time. For longevity and all that.
I've tended to use lacquers of some description, but the hard wax appeals as in tests 8 out of 10 cases it has preserved the corrosion a little better. Or differently anyway, which is another colour for the pallet truck and all that. I don't know.
But anyway, the neck is drying and I doubt I have the paint anyway, and well, whatever.
As I was flushed with succesfulness, and had a load of clamps looking under-utilised, I also glued the neck back on to the Riviera. This is also drying and seemingly went on straight and everything. Most odd.
I still haven't decided whether this means that I'll let the broken Dot go now or not, but I've run out of clamps so it is still tattered and torn.
Other than my adventures in glue, The Kooky One went this morning, to a nice geezer called Richard who's playing of it raised me 74 notches on the neighbours-impressed-by-my-meagre-ability-de-musique scale.
Well, so I hope.
They probably saw him arrive and hoped he was here to teach me something other than that there cacophonous-meandering I tend to specialise it.
Still, nice to see it off to a good home.
Other than even that, I also received some lovely pink paisley in the post and a rather splendid looking toaster pickup from Marc at Mojo Pickups. All of which means that I have more stuff, not less than I started with.
Forgive the lack of fotos of all of these exciting things, but I can't find the camera.
La la laaa
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