This weekend I started with the first build.
I wanted a s slimmer body at the horn and where the belly cut is so I started with some 80 grid sanding and went up to 600 before applying the wood filler and stain.
The idea was to pop the grain by using black wood filler and sanding it back but the effect is not as strong as I thought. Nonetheless I went on and stained the guitar with a water based mahogany stain that I bought a few month ago. It turned out a little more red and dark than I intended so I had a little fun mixing my stains and added red and a little black.
Why add black and red if it is too red and too dark? Because I kinda liked the color but I seemed a little to boring to me.
This is what I looked like after a light sanding and two thin layers of the new mixture.
First layer vs Third layer
Other than that I tried a little experiment on the neck. After some of us discussed the necessity of inlays in another thread I liked the idea of black inlays on a black fretboard. So I stained the maple black and I think it works out.
On the TL I checked the fitting of the neck again. I was hoping to see some change after it adjusted a little more to the german climate. But it is still pretty loose. So I will probably try to apply some woodfiller to narrow the neck pocket when I route the hole for the humbucker.
That's it for this weekend. Until I will be able to go back to the workbench I will be shopping for some accessories (switches for phase revers, pots etc).
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