Drummerdude's first build.. TLA-1Q. Wish me luck

[Kick]

I don't see any pictures...

[Drummerdude]

Yeah sorry having trouble get them to upload.. I have to get the picture in a smaller format and I am technically challenged but good with tools.

[Drummerdude]

[Drummerdude]

. another picture

[Drummerdude]

Here are a few pics that I have been able to resize to fit but I can't get any of the close up picks to resize and keep enough clarity to see the issues. But nonetheless it does have a great quilt pattern which should pop good using ILR's method of staining.

[ILRGuitars]

Kick has a nice method of staining on his LP-1Q. He has done the colour first then the black. I use a spirit based stain for the black and a water based stain for the colour. Try a few different ways on scrap to see what suits best for the result you want. Can't wait to see it.

[Kick]

Kick has a nice method of staining on his LP-1Q. He has done the colour first then the black.

The reason I done this was purely because of the thin veneer. Normally its done by doing some coats in black and sand that down. You can do this when you have a thick layer of quilt. You can even use a sandingmachine. But when the veneer is only 0.7 mm thick you can not sand the black of because you probably end up sanding through the veneer.

So I started with the color (red in my build) and then slowly added black to the red mix to get the dark in. And I used full black for the burst effect.

[newtonb]

Very informative discussion. Thank you. :-)

[Drummerdude]

I have wiped down the whole body 2 times with damp cloth and only found 2 very small blue spots. Should I use turps or naphtha to make spots show up better or is the water fine. I don't want to miss any.

[FrankenWashie]

Now that is some EPIC quilting right there. This is going to look hot!