For some reason I’m finding it a bit hard to maintain my momentum with this build but I have finally progressed a little so I thought it was about time for another update.
Now where was I……
Neck is finished...... so onto the body.
I find that the belly cuts on these kits usually need a bit more work so its out with a pencil and my favourite toy, the Japanese Saw Rasp.
Its a process of pencil marking the shape and removing what shouldn’t be there.
First, roughly pencil the shape and then….
Start removing unwanted wood. The File Rasp is a fantastic tool for hand shaping timber and it removes the wood fairly quickly but does not leave too many “chew” mark that you later have to sand out.
I wanted to keep the striking grain, so I thought I would try and enhance it with some dark grain-filling. But I didn’t want to remove the grain texture, so I mixed up a slurry of Walnut TimberMate and water to the consistency of runny custard and applied it all over. Not sure it was the right idea, but I wanted to give it a try.
When finished shaping, I applied the TimberMate slurry, let it dry.
Then sanded it off.
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