Hi Gloss Finish With Tru Oil

[wazkelly]

Hearin' you brother.

I mainly use the stuff as it is fairly forgiving and easy to knock a bit off if last coat laid was crap.

Nitro's epic description does sound like a lot of hard work and on my current Tele build I have started to do a similar thing but skipped a few steps as things were not going to plan.

Started the 'Wet Sanding' TO with 600 grit on a body that had initially been sanded to just 120 and after applying 4 ragged coats. After 2 x 600 wet sanded application it came up real smooth with an almost satin finish. The sanding motion combined with recent hot weather had dried the coat off so much that when starting to use a cotton pad it just wanted to grip and rip the finish laid down and was not going there again.

Next 2 wet sanded coats were done with 1200 grit where the TO was mixed 50/50 with mineral turps. Wow, even more silky smooth than before and still looking very satin finish but showing enough depth to encourage me to go for gloss. Will do a couple more at 1200, then maybe 2 more using 2000 grit before doing a proper water wet sand and micro mesh session. All up I reckon 10-12 coats will do whereas on other builds they have had about 20 or more coats and around 3 wet sanding sessions after each 6-8 coats.

Hope to do 3rd & 4th x 1200 wet sand coats on the body tomorrow and will start to do the same on the neck.

[nitroburner1000]

Hearin' you brother.

I mainly use the stuff as it is fairly forgiving and easy to knock a bit off if last coat laid was crap.

Nitro's epic description does sound like a lot of hard work and on my current Tele build I have started to do a similar thing but skipped a few steps as things were not going to plan.

Started the 'Wet Sanding' TO with 600 grit on a body that had initially been sanded to just 120 and after applying 4 ragged coats. After 2 x 600 wet sanded application it came up real smooth with an almost satin finish. The sanding motion combined with recent hot weather had dried the coat off so much that when starting to use a cotton pad it just wanted to grip and rip the finish laid down and was not going there again.

Next 2 wet sanded coats were done with 1200 grit where the TO was mixed 50/50 with mineral turps. Wow, even more silky smooth than before and still looking very satin finish but showing enough depth to encourage me to go for gloss. Will do a couple more at 1200, then maybe 2 more using 2000 grit before doing a proper water wet sand and micro mesh session. All up I reckon 10-12 coats will do whereas on other builds they have had about 20 or more coats and around 3 wet sanding sessions after each 6-8 coats.

Hope to do 3rd & 4th x 1200 wet sand coats on the body tomorrow and will start to do the same on the neck.

Thanks for the feedback guys, never tried the stuff myself but its there if someone wants to be experimental.