Waz's MMB-4

[Kick]

Nice curves indeed!

[Chuck]

Noice! Bet your arms are sore!!

[wazkelly]

Cheers guys.

Quite amazed at how quickly this Basswood body blunts 120 grit as the paper still looks clean and not worn out, just not cutting through as much and the difference is quite noticeable when grabbing a fresh piece.

@ Chuck - arms are OK, just the fingers and thumbs copping it at the moment on inner horns as they are always the hardest spots to get right. RDO on Wednesday so hope to finalise prepping it for a 1st coat of finish by nightfall.

[ozzbike]

Loving the commitment to sanding. There is some nice grain in that body.

[wazkelly]

Cheers Ozzie. More effort being put in buffing and polishing the Tele by hand than sanding this one.

When ordering the kit Adam sent me photos of a couple and chose this one as there was more grain and I wanted to do a natural finish without the oval pick guard. Coming along nicely and happy to keep sanding away until those curves are just right.

[wazkelly]

And then there even more sanding to be done.....

Spent most of this afternoon rounding off the edges and doing more & more sanding......

[wazkelly]

More....

[wazkelly]

Try and guess what grit level this was done at????

[FrankenWashie]

I'm going to say about 120, how close am I?

[wazkelly]

I'm going to say about 120, how close am I?

Hey Frankie, no trip to Spec Savers for you. Well spotted as close ups of the rounded edges still looked a little bit rough and probably gave up the answer.

If this was to be stained the top & bottom were done and ready to go whilst the edges still had a slightly rougher texture however once I had used 180 those edges were too smooth to soak up anything. As I was using TO kept going with 240 and then a very light 320 dusting.

Not trying to be a smart @%#$ but over sanding basswood and thinking it will take a stain don't quite work out. For Ash, yes it does need a bit more work and up to 240 is about as far as I would go to give it best chance to be smooth and still soak up some colour.

I get the impression that a lot of folk skip the hard work required on coarser grits and use finer ones to take off machine marks and scratches and end up polishing without even realising it.