Loonhaunt Junior LP JRM 1DC Place Holder

[Loonhaunt]

Yeah! What is to stop me from oiling over the Decal on the headstock? Tung oil should bond to the polyurethane or acrylic black face and not eat the decal? Did I mention I tried black transfast dye and I could not get the mahogany to look Black, it just became darker mahogany.

So you use acrylic to spray like "Krylon" or similar. I am afraid I am stuck with whatever I can find in a big box home store place in my neighborhood.

[Andy40]

Yeah! What is to stop me from oiling over the Decal on the headstock? Tung oil should bond to the polyurethane or acrylic black face and not eat the decal? Did I mention I tried black transfast dye and I could not get the mahogany to look Black, it just became darker mahogany.

So you use acrylic to spray like "Krylon" or similar. I am afraid I am stuck with whatever I can find in a big box home store place in my neighborhood.

I just use the Acrylic sprays at my local auto shop in australia.

But might I sway your opinion, if you are going to use oil on the headstock, why not finish the whole guitar in it. I use Tru oil for all my stained guitars. I like it, but its a personal preference as it takes a bit longer and you need patience. It does give the guitar a bit more of a woody feel rather than the plastic feel of poly - but that's just down to personal preference.

The upside, is its a bit more robust if you knock the guitar finish later. you can just get some more oil and spot finish.

IF you have time, get some scrap pieces of wood and dye them with you dyes and try out each of the finishes to see what works for you.

Edit: Ahh right I see you have oiled, man that's looking awesome!

Further Edit: yeah I oil over my decals all the time. never hurt one yet

[Loonhaunt]

I just use the Acrylic sprays at my local auto shop in australia.

But might I sway your opinion, if you are going to use oil on the headstock, why not finish the whole guitar in it. I use Tru oil for all my stained guitars. I like it, but its a personal preference as it takes a bit longer and you need patience. It does give the guitar a bit more of a woody feel rather than the plastic feel of poly - but that's just down to personal preference.

The upside, is its a bit more robust if you knock the guitar finish later. you can just get some more oil and spot finish.

IF you have time, get some scrap pieces of wood and dye them with you dyes and try out each of the finishes to see what works for you.

Edit: Ahh right I see you have oiled, man that's looking awesome!

Further Edit: yeah I oil over my decals all the time. never hurt one yet

Oils are my favorite. You do really need to have other things to do between coats. One reason I began using Formby or Minwax tung oil over say Watco is that Formby can be handled in 12 hours as opposed to sometimes twice that for Watco.

Really Glad to hear about the Oil over decals, I suspected such as I used to make Bamboo fishing gear and I made my own decals covering them with Man O War Varnish Never Touched them, I sprayed some lacquer over one once and it completely dissolved. I cried for a while on that mess. That was a commissioned job too!