Quote Originally Posted by ILRGuitars View Post
I give it plenty of time to dry then give it a light wipe with a slightly damp rag. I've found that there is some residue that comes off with the first coat of oil but not enough to affect the final colour.
If you are doing a blue colour, DO NOT use Tru Oil!!! It will yellow over time and turn your lovely blue to a crappy green. Happened with my Tele. Use an acrylic clear coat.
Thanks ILRGuitars drying between coats makes sense ,and no its not Blue so safe with that. Is the green appearance because the oil has amber tint to it ,the yellow mixing with blue and it turn going green as the oil yellows more in time or just a tru oil thing ? If so are there other oils that can spoil a blue finish over the long term?

From reading this forum and searching the web using a oil finish seems to be my best bet at this stage to possibly achieve a good finish. I've very little spray gun experience or even equipment at this point ,but something to work toward for sure. My concern was that the oil might lift some colour out of or off the grain and give blotchy appearance while rubbing the oil into the wood. The first coat dried would help seal it in then ? I've gone for a burst which took a number of colour applications to get somewhere in the ball park. So would starting on the lightest coloured area and working out towards the darker edges and changing the cloth, be the approach ?

Apologies for all the questions, think I'd better just get out and put the scrap to the test ?

Cheers