Looking good....
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Looking good....
looking sweet Nick after the 2nd coat, well done, the filler has paid off. So is this surfer girl or azure lagoon stain ? Ash timber does funny things to colours ! My ash strat in azure lagoon ended up green, I put a red pearloid pickguard on and called it the watermelon !
Yeah this is a mix of surfer girl and azure. I added only a small amount (maybe 10% of azure to try and shift it but it really has turned more seafoam green.
Dat grain though...
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aye ;) she will be very pretty when done.
QUESTION:
The stain isn't penetrating to the grain beneath. I've just put the third coat on and it looks pretty much the same as coat two - especially on the upper cut - still looks like bear wood underneath.
How do I get it to penetrate? Just more coats or a rougher steel wooling? Any advice?
Spatula, maybe?
Sorry Nick. I don't really have any sage advice on this. But even as it is the colour looks great. Are you wanting to not see the grain at all?
I do want to see it- I just want all the wood to take the blue tone rather than bare wood showing through. So the higher grain takes a different hue of blue than the lower
Update: The stain is finally penetrating some of the wells in the ash. On consultation with DB, more thin coats and more drying time is in order - so that is what will be happening.
Slow going - but it will be worth it!
good stuff Nick. You have to be patient building axes in the cooler months. Get another build on the go so u can work on another build while the other dries/cures !
The colour will eventually get darker, lots of thin coats !
Cheers Wokks! I'm thinking I might start preparing the neck in the next few days. Sanding up to 1000 will take a little while. My main problem now is finding something to shape the stock!