{"id":182,"date":"2008-07-26T18:28:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T17:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/2008\/07\/26\/the-mould-mould\/"},"modified":"2008-07-26T18:28:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T17:28:28","slug":"the-mould-mould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/2008\/07\/26\/the-mould-mould\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mould Mould…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, it’s under way. I have roughly 15 more very nervous hours to go before I know how it turned out…<\/p>\n

Since I had made a complete model neck, but I will have to create the final necks in two steps (back and fretboard) I first had to “convert” my model into a mould for the back. The neck will rest on the below seat:<\/p>\n

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To not make the epoxi stick to the mould, I sealed it with latex sealer and then polished the whole thing with… Car wax.<\/p>\n

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I was nervous about this step but I think it might work as you might see in one of the following pictures – the epoxi does not stick at all, just like water on a newly waxed car. I then put double-stick tape around the edges to make the vacuum bag to stick to.<\/p>\n

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And then for the tricky part. I covered the mould in epoxi and as can\u00a0 be seen, the wax seems to have done its job.<\/p>\n

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Next step way laying on the fiberglass, saturating it with more epoxi.<\/p>\n

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I put on three layers all in all. Then came peel-ply and pillow foam and finally the bag itself. Plenty of duct tape later:<\/p>\n

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With vacuum applied, I could work on sealing some more leaks with duct tape and the vacuum started doing its job.<\/p>\n

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Here is the complete setup:<\/p>\n

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To speed up the curing process as well as making the mould more resistant to high temperatures, I created a makeshift “oven” to bake it in.<\/p>\n

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It’s set for 60 degrees centigrade and 15 hours. Not sure how I will sleep tonight…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, it’s under way. I have roughly 15 more very nervous hours to go before I know how it turned out… Since I had made a complete model neck, but I will have to create the final necks in two steps (back and fretboard) I first had to “convert” my model into a mould for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}