FS-1 build

[JohnH]

Lookin' great, Grant! The contouring and the PUPs are both spot on.

[neverwas]

Thanks John.
There has been some progress, albeit a bit slow. Spent a weekend afternoon glueing small squares of 150 grit sandpaper to the end of pencils so I could sand inside the f-holes to remove the pencil marks and glue stain. Pencil came off OK but the yellow stain from the glue is there for good, did make it a little less noticeable though. There were a number of pencil casualties.

Sanded the side up to 240 grit and had to spend a bit of time alternating between using Goof-off and a small brass brush to remove as much of the glue mark as I could. Then polished the binding with 1500 grit paper and masked up front and back of body.
I'm using Colortone stains I have left over to try to do a tiger eye effect, my test piece of maple veneer came out alright but wasn't able to get the contrast between light and dark colours I was hoping for but hopefully still resembles what I'm after.
First step, a coat of black diluted with metho, covered the glue mark so was happy about that.

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[neverwas]

Then used a cloth dampened with metho to pull some of the black back out and in doing so made some of the black bleed under the vinyl tape, just need to hope I polished the binding well enough so it will scrape off.
Next step was to make up the orange by mixing 4 ml of lemon yellow and 1ml of cherry red and diluting that with 50ml metho. Wiped on six coats which also helps pull some of the black out as well. The black is now more of a deep brown with the orange highlights where the curves change direction.
It is darker than my test piece but that may be a good thing if I need to do a burst to cover up the glue stain on the back by the binding. First pic raw stain

After two coats of vinyl sealer

Little bit of an oops on the back but that should cover up.


Grant