Build Diary of my RD kit

[mike1318crue]

Thought it was a winner until I applied the first coat of Tru-Oil.

I saw this coming; even with 2 days drying, I still have some red color on my fingers when I touch the guitar.
I hope when I'll apply the transparent paint, this will fix the color, so I can finish with the oil.
Everyday there's a new surprise!

[mike1318crue]

I presume that it's a water-based dye that you are using? Water makes the wood grain swell up so any loose wood fibres start to stick up and the surface will always need some sanding down afterwards. If you've got a small scratch in the surface - like you have near the post hole

This just confirm my thoughts; it is water based, and I was thinking that maybe the wood absorbs too much water in this area.
Since I didn't dose anything, (not so good I know) i maybe put a little bit too much water the first time.

[mike1318crue]

I went to see how all of this have dryed, and I noticed, for the second time that the back of the guitar had a better looking than the front.
The color is more regular on the back:



there's some differences on the top of the body (on the picture, it looks good, which is not in reality), and the worst was the differences on the sides:

[mike1318crue]

I decided to sand the top, and my first idea was to re-apply a coat of dye.

But when I ended to sand, i cleaned the guitar with a t-shirt, and went to try another stuff.
I noticed that I can just "spread" the color with the t-shirt, since it never really fix to the wood. That was nice to sort of erase little defaults.
So I tried to do a kind of ("kind of") shade on the sides between the top and the back. I want to keep the darker color on the back, 1st because it looks good, and let the top sand, with a lighter red.
That will give a look of "vintage/used" to the guitar.
That was not really easy to make it happen, but I'll stick to my idea. And, anyway, if I don't like it after I apply the paint with glitter, I can still sand and restart.

So the pictures once again don't really reflect realty, since in the bright areas, the light comes in to make it appears really white.











I will maybe change my mind tomorrow with a fresh new look, who knows....

[Andy40]

Cool kit Mike. I've not seen one of these built yet and I have not seen anyone use Rit Dye.

[mike1318crue]

Hi everyone, it's been quite a long time I haven't post anything here.
it's been a little crazy at work and with personal life stuff.

Anyways, I managed to do some things on that axe; some looks good, and in the end there's a quite of problems.

I did the gliterring and it looks not so bad.it's not regular, but I like it like that.





Depends on the light, you can see more or less glitters

[mike1318crue]

I let the paint dry, and 2 days after I begun to had the tung oil

it took off some glitters, but still looks good










Let it dry for 4 or 5 days, and 2nd coat with oil

[mike1318crue]

still 2nd coat







3rd coat:

[mike1318crue]

I let it dry once again for a couple of days, and cleaned it with a coton piece of cloth.

That's when I saw some problems coming.
When you look at the guitar it looks good, but when touching it, thez glitters are still not fixed.I had some glitters on my fingers, and on the piece of cloth.

The worst is, when I tried to take off all the extra glitters, when i did it a little too long on a part, there's also some red color coming on the cloth. Which means , nothing is fixed.

[mike1318crue]

I decided to start the neck with the rit dye, but I maybe will not ad some glitters on the back of the neck.

1st coat for the neck