Dragons Breath P Bass

**ozzbike** · 08-05-2021, 05:39 AM

Thanks WAZKELLY for the Tru Oil brush hint. This new build is coming along great with two coats of Tru Oil on it. I am trying for a yellow, orange, red, brown Dragons Breath Fade......a three letter company has this on some of the wonderful carved top guitars.

These pics are with two brushed coats of Tru Oil over the stain.....wow.

**fender3x** · 08-05-2021, 09:54 AM

Originally Posted by ozzbike

Thanks WAZKELLY for the Tru Oil brush hint. This new build is coming along great with two coats of Tru Oil on it. I am trying for a yellow, orange, red, brown Dragons Breath Fade......a three letter company has this on some of the wonderful carved top guitars.

These pics are with two brushed coats of Tru Oil over the stain.....wow.

Wow! That is awesome. How did you do that?

**ozzbike** · 08-05-2021, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by fender3x

Wow! That is awesome. How did you do that?

Originally Posted by robin

Great burst Ozz, c'mon, tell us your secret.

Honest,

lots of trial and error on scrap pine....and this fellows videos. BIG D on You tube..... My effort is a combination of lots of his work and others....but this was the inspiration for this colour scheme.

This one is part 3 of 3 about a rebuild of a certain brand guitar he completed. (This is the stain video.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FOS6W8YRKQ

I used Angelus Yellow, Red and Orange and Feast Watson Elm as I don't have any Angelus brown.

Be really careful of the RED as it takes hold and will not let go.....you can see the V on the back I had to work hard to get it down to the shape and size.

Oh, and the orange goes on very yellow and changes colour slowly to orange....so wipe and wait a little with it....as you can end up with it all over the place.

I did not do all the sanding he did during the staining phase.....as my P Bass is a solid lump of Ash. I sanded to 180grit...ebony timbermate, then sanded 240, 320 and 400. Stains on at 400 grit. No grain raising at all. Leave over night....no sand back. Then started brushing on the Tru-Oil. Now at 3 coats. I think that is enough and I will let it hang now for 7 days and then start the Polyurethane.....probably 3 lots of Poly...wet sand 600, 800 and/or 1200 if I do 4 lots. Then 10 to 14 days hanging and wet sand to 2000 and then cutting compound, polish, wax.

**robin** · 08-05-2021, 11:13 AM

Great burst Ozz, c'mon, tell us your secret.

**ozzbike** · 29-05-2021, 12:48 PM

After a couple of coats of Tru-Oil and I did not like the stain....sanded back to bare wood and started again. Now we have gone back through the grits, ebony Timbermate and poly coats to......here.....

The body and the neck on this one have now been wet sanded through to 1200 grit. Just sprayed with the third coat, 10 mins apart, of Poly....and here she is.

**ozzbike** · 12-06-2021, 10:57 AM

The body and neck are done as far as poly etc goes. Taped up the neck...got it flat....then levelled the frets...crowned them...rounded the ends over then smoothed with 400 grit 600 800 steel wool and autosol. Super smooth, round ends and polished and shiny.

This kit has not neck mounting screw holes and no under bridge ground wire hole. So did the neck first...went well. Then the body ground wire hole.

I have been thinking for some time that my long drill bit....is still a little short. But you persevere....just as the tip poked out in the control cavity it broke at the chuck. Bugger. Now how the hang do I get that 6 inch drill bit out of the body?????