Got the cab and headbox completely stripped out, all the fiddly parts bagged and labelled, with heaps of photos taken.

Getting the glue off was not too bad, used De Solve It (citrus spray), then an awesome woodworking tool i borrowed from the neighbour called a cabinet scraper - from what i understand its like a really fine planer, but it got 95% of the glue off pretty quickly.

Then sanded the cab and headbox a few times with 120 and 240 grit paper to start smoothing it off.

There are a few small dings on the cabinet and some chips around the edges, so got builders bog to fill these up, 1st time i mixed it up a bit too strong (too much hardener) and it went off in about 3 minutes, so didn't have time to do the whole job, then the 2nd batch i didn't put enough hardener in, so it didn't go off at all! So i'll remove all the soft staff and redo it (the instructions are pretty average, says 1 matchbox full of bog to 1/8 to 1/2 teaspoon of hardener....

Here's a pic of some of the bog and the cabinet scraper to level the bulk of it off


There was one section about 8cm across where the ply delaminated a bit when i pulled the old decals off, so run the router through this section to remove it and filled with a larger chunk of bog

Once i finish bogging and sanding to get it nice and smooth and all the edges sharp, will prime it



Also started cleaning some of the cabinet bits

Before



And after a bit of scrubbing and regraining