I got the courage and started staining this morning. I did a few test samples on some spare timber and the mixture I really liked was 1 oz water with 1/8 teaspoon stain. I masked the binding in a way that I could only do the back right now. When the back is done I will peel it off and do the front. The back and the front of the headstock looks really nice and I'm pretty happy with it. The back of the neck is pretty blotchy though.
2 questions: should I sand between coats of stain since the water is raising the grain (if so what grit)? I was going to ask about what can be done about the blotchiness but as I'm typing this it looks like it's drying up pretty evenly.
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