Firstimer RD

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Hi there, I have been watching this site for a while, and hey the kids got me a kit for xmas awesome!! Thankfully Jane asked me what one I would be interested in and I am a fan of the odd shaped American guitars and asked for an RG Kit, (that on ebay said set neck) with Cooloongatta Gold finish. Opened her up and sanded it to with in an inch of my life (sorry box shots are after the first lot of sanding)There were some pretty heavy machine marks and lots and lots of filler (not Killer) spread over most of the body, There are a few filled cracks and a few dings that short of hitting it with a belt sander are going to be called character. The neck thing aside, no complaints.

Nice, troy. Beauty thing you got in hands. I hate sanding, always takes me to despair but its necessary to achieve good results..

keep it up!

S!

Attachment 7480Attachment 7481 Looks pretty cool to me

Sanded all the way to 400, nice and smooth all machine marks well and truly gone one coat of dingotone and I'm real happy with the grain, it just popped out all over the place. Awesome. A real seventy's rd look. Really enjoying how its coming together!!Attachment 7482Attachment 7483Attachment 7484

Looking good and hope it all comes together how you planned.

Looks good, I'm always pleasantly surprised how well basswood comes up!

Yep some beautiful basswood grain there. Looking great!

cheers,
Gav.

nice progress Dtroy, Dingotone Coolangatta gold is a fantastic colour

Welcome DTroy! I think this is going to be our first RD build thread. Can't wait to see how it comes out.

RD has been on my radar for a while. Looks good mate

Been at work for the last 7 days so stain had heaps of time to dry, should of taken a picture the gold had mellowed into a sand colour it was very nice. I applied the intensifier today and it made a huge difference on the neck and head-stock the stain went on pretty wishy washy but the intensifier got into the tight grain of the maple no problem. The body came up good, back to being gold. Doesn't look much different to the other photos just a bit shiny at the moment. I'm going to leave it for a while before I put the final coats on i'm hoping it fades back to the sand colour.

sounds good Dtroy, stick to your method and you should have a sweet looking axe

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I'm going to leave it for a while before I put the final coats on i'm hoping it fades back to the sand colour.

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0000 Steel wool used lightly will take a bit of edge off the colour if needed as that is how my EX-1 turned out, more sandy coloured than gold and closer to a korina finish that I was seeking.

Just did the 0000 wool great advice, went a little harder than the dingo tone instruction video (which is very helpful) and between the sun thank f$#$ its summer and a good rub not quite so yellow. Gonna go and do the final coat now.

Any more photos?

Attachment 7976Attachment 7977Sorry about that, I forget to take camera out to the shed. The first coat of finish went on well, Give it a week or so and Ill rough it up and do it again.

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Any more photos?

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Attachment 7978Not the best light to get good photos, the back is more yellow than the front. Didnt spend as much time on it.

Hard to capture the exact colour in a photo isn't it?

Looking good and has similar toning to my CG EX-1.

Welcome mate ,and some nice progress there, good to see one of these coming together

dtroy, nice colour and has really enhanced the grain. good score too on the basswood as there is a good consistent pattern across the body.

Killing it mate. That finish is mint.

Very slick looking. Nice grain in the basswood and great finish

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Very slick looking. Nice grain in the basswood and great finish

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cheers guys, it looks very good. a little bit worried as its still wet 3 days on. I know its not as warm down here, but not much humidity. looks like a bit more than a week before the next coat.

Hey Dtroy looking great after the last coat.
Unfortunately living in Hobart you will have to be super patient waiting for DT to cure

Patience is the key ingredient to getting a good finish using DT and well worth it in the long run. Part of the reason why some of us end up starting multiple kits at the same time is whilst you are waiting for something on one build you can be working on another. That is how we all get caught up with GAS.