Picked up the lemon oil. $18 for 118ml of the Dunlop 65 stuff, but yeah, this is gonna last practically forever. Put 2 coats on the fretboard and the level in the bottle hardly moved. Doesn't look like this is a particularly thirsty fretboard, because it already looks pretty good to me. I'll wait a week or so while I work on the body and see if I want to do another coat.
Sanded the body at 2000 grit today after 4 repetitions of sanding the Tru Oil on (and about 10 coats before that). It's nice and smooth and although it's still a bit wavy (not going away on ash, I guess) it's coming along. Gonna do 2 TO coats, sand again, 2 coats, sand, etc now. I'll repeat that until I'm happy with it.
I have to make an observation about ragging TO on. I've been using rags cut from a really old, threadbare Bonds undershirt and have had some problems with it leaving a tiny amount of lint on the finish, streaking, etc. Today I cut up an equally old but significantly less threadbare pure cotton T-shirt (not an undershirt, much thicker), and it doesn't leave any lint, doesn't streak nearly as much, and is generally much easier to use. Not something I would have thought would make a difference, but there you go.
Last edited by UpperCaseH; 15-11-2016 at 06:54 PM.
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