Did some touch up paint work, but apparently, very hard to make that non-obvious, so now I have varying areas of high gloss, and matte areas, and some lines.... Only on the top though, so I'll flatten that, and then respray just the whole top, leave it and then polish it.
Was keen on assembling it, so I made the recess for the nut, and fitted everything else. As imagined, finding out the right strings and tuning is a bit of a puzzle. Right now it has a 5-string set made for the Ibanez Mikro 5, but tuned E-A-D-G-C (as are all of my other regular 5-strings). But the two lowest strings require a lot of string on the capstan of the tuning machine, not ideal. Also, the strings are obviously thick and stiff, so that is noticable. The plan was to tune this an octave higher, as is the Mayones Cali and Mub Miezo, might still end up doing that.
Given low string tension, the tesnion does not pull the neck into some relief, maybe that'll come over the coming days. Luckily, I fitted a two way trussrod, so I already gave it some preload in the "other" direction. It is quite a substantial neck, given the size of the instrument (wide, it is pretty flat).
Haven't fitted the electronics, might do that this evening. Will post some pictures in a minute (they are on my phone).
, it's all good though, currently a really fun instrument to play and easy to take along.