Heck yeah! I just got the resin and turquoise for the knob caps poured. Now to wait a few days for that to cure. Putting the turquoise into the “molds” first was the right choice. I got to control how much stone was in there before putting in any resin. And the resin I’m using is thin enough that it seeped down through the gaps in the stone no problem with minimal bubbles.
The “resin mold tape” I’m using is maybe not all it’s cracked up to be. The adhesive wasn’t really sufficient to seal up the pores in the walnut, so when I poured the resin in, it weeped down through the wood grain and the tape really fast. I just hope it doesn’t glue the set screws in place. That would be really frustrating. The knobs at least fit snug enough that I could get away without functional set screws. But still. We’ll see how that shakes out I guess.
I guess one way around that would be to use the resin on its own as a pore sealer on the knobs, let it cure, and then maybe the tape would seal better? A bit late for that now.
I finished with setup and final tuning now that the nuts are glued down. I maybe should have installed the uke bridge just a touch closer to the neck. To properly intonate it, I’m near the max adjustment point for the saddles. I got it though, so I don’t need to mess with it.
Also broke the B string on the guitar while doing final tuning. Sigh. I wasn’t even doing much. Just turning the tuning knob. At least I had another set of electric guitar strings laying around. I considered just stealing the B string from that pack. But they’re different brands, the replacements are uncoated (whereas the one that broke was coated), and ever so slightly different gauges. I checked to see if I could get single strings locally…and I could…but again I probably couldn’t get the same gauge in a coated string. So I bit the bullet and replaced them all. Driving to one of the shops to buy a single string at less than $1 wasn’t worth it. It would cost me that much just to start my truck and get it out of the neighborhood.
I’ll just order more sets of electric guitar strings (and get a replacement set for the uke while I’m at it).