I got bored. Decisions on what to do with my Strat re-build, and what colour for the body of my Tele build, and waiting for new tint colours and my Shellac to arrive had me twiddling my thumbs and staring at my wanting LP-1SSP body and the inevitable result that I knew would soon arrive.

So yesterday morning I broke out the Jarrah stain and hit all the Mahogany of the LP-1SSP.... and then in the afternoon after watching a few vids on you-tube sorted out a metho dispenser thingy for the Shellac stage to come.

This morning I go into the shed an see my metho bottle has left a interesting ring mark on the scrap piece of stained wood that it had sat on overnight... Wow!! What a cool effect, and what a perfect way to adjust the tone of the stain that I had used on the Mahogany.... 3hrs later I was satisfied and set the LP-1SSP aside for the Metho to dry off it...

After a late lunch I returned to my Man-shed/luthery workshop with the intention of doing something with the Strat body or sorting PU's or something when I picked up the tiny bottle of Birchwood Casey 'Sealer/filler' that I intended to use on the LP-1SSP Mahogany when I noticed it didn't make sloshy noises that it should. I opened it. It had gone rubbery which I could see when I squeezed the plastic bottle. I squeezed again, and again.... and SPATT! Clear sealer/filler over half my face, my glasses, and my shirt... Bugger... Dots of it on my naked Tele body, dots on my Strat and Tele necks... Buggar!, buggar, buggar...

After cleaning for nearly an hour I figured the seal on the sealer/filler jar wasn't doing its job so I had best use the sealer filler as soon as possible....

Will post photo of sealed and filled LP-1SSP over denatured Jarrah stain tomorrow... that's after the 2nd or 3rd coat has gone on...


On another note, Someone in one of the Facebook forums on guitars that I belong to asked the question "What got you started in building guitars?" and my response is/was ...
"When I was about 10yo I pestered my parents to buy me a good guitar that was at least better that the junk thing that I was mucking about on with 1/2 inch action that my uncle left behind. They bought me a Fender F25 Auditorium acoustic on the condition that I took and followed through with lessons. Life and wife and family got in the way and 45 years latter that guitar was gathering dust beside a 12 string and a Strat that had seen better days before the 20 something me took to it with wild modifications. Late last year I suffered a stint in hospital and the doctors said I had to do something but not something that would stress my condition. Wiping the dust off my guitars has been the best thing for me during this period of convalescence, and re-constructing my 30 year old plywood Strat sowed the seed of which today has me on my 7th build in 6 months."