Thanks Chris, and guys for the comments! Chris waited a stupid long time for this. Winter kicked my butt. I even invested in some electric heaters to try and make it so I could work in my shed
But they couldn’t keep up in the Jan,feb weather..
Though he sent me a extra set of stencils I always feel like a failure if I have to use the back up. The cold weather was way to risky to paint...
I aged it many months before winter, and when I broke it out of storage to finish I realized Chris’s V2 was the only V2 I handled where the ring section had remaining machine marks
I didn’t pick up on it at the time of the acid dipping, so I had to chemically strip off the finish, sand it all by hand and start over, I hate doing this because I want to match the age finished. Thankfully with my dipping technique, you can match the age finish perfectly (4 dips @ 5 min )
I normally have to sand the boosters on the FX version. But Chris did a flawless job sanding and polishing that up!
Another thing that totally blew my mind was Chris’s custom work he did to the FX mystery chunk, I plan on doing the same thing to mine when I have the time.
I machined up a new emitter denter jig, and new tools, if you look at Chris’s emitter the dents match the paint chips, it even has a perfect halo around it. I hope I can match this all on mine
I have to apologize again Chris for taking so long, i have close to 70 hours tied up into this baby, take good care of her I miss her already
I can’t thank you all enough for the support!