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Hi guys,
I'm new here (just posted the "I'm new post" in the right area), and I'm looking at building an STA1 with a deep blue (royal blue) stained finish.
I've looked at the Dingotone Bondi Blue but all guitars I see with this finish seem to have more a 'blue jeans' look than 'royal blue'. Is that just a matter of adding more coats to change density?
Cheers!
Fred
Hi Fred,
you should be able to get a deeper blue on the ash grain. You could ask Dingobass to mix a deeper blue colour in the Bondi Blue kit and with more coats should deepen the blue stain.
Gav Turner on the forum used colortone dyes and got a nice deep blue STA-1 finish, see if you can find the build diary. It was GOTM about 6-9 months ago (guitar of the month). It is shown in the gallery section here check it out, scroll down bottom of page
http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...ead.php?t=2771
No problems with spiking a Bondi kit to make it deeper.
Flick me an email and I can sort it out.
Great.
Is there any way to get a good level of gloss with Dingotone?
I really like the gloss Gav achieved on his, it looks amazing on the deep blue.
I found his build diary and he used acrylic but it isn't too natural...
Cheers!
TBH, you will only get a semi gloss with DT.
Thanks Dingobass.
I'm now thinking I'll keep Dingotone for my second project (if the first one doesn't stop me!)...
Fred if you want a high gloss you really need to use a naughty product such as tru oil, wipe on poly, acrylic, polyurethane or nitro.
That's what I'm starting to think...
Feel bad talking about naughty products for a first Pitbull Guitar kit!
I'mgoing to start another thread in the Finishing part of the forum to talk about options for gloss...
Light Orange Dingo Tone
Was mixing up a few brews this afternoon and came up with a light orange colour as shown below. Not exactly what I expected and was achieved by mixing 1 part Outback Sunset to 3 parts Coolangatta Gold if anyone is interested.
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I love it when folk experiment :)
Might look at releasing this as a new colour...
Now all we need is an Aussie name for it.
Hit me with suggestions folk!