I haven't been happy with the finish on this guitar. It seems to be never ending. I keep putting on more coats of poly hoping that they will fill the small dips and imperfections but ultimately adding extra drips and imperfections while not filling the holes. So I've been putting off doing work on it.

Today I had something else I should have been doing so what better excuse to do more work on this build?

I think the problem from the beginning was that I didn't sand enough. Too scared of going through the veneer. And everytime I've sanded between coats I've only done lightly as the few times I did more I went through, particularly on the edges and the binding which I covered black. But doing this has cost me greatly trying to get a smooth glassy surface on the front.

So today I threw caution to the wind and sanded. And sanded. And sanded. All with an ultra fine sanding pad, P1000-P800. I figured if I went through then it wouldn't really matter.

What I've ended up with instead is a lovely silky smooth matte finish. So nice in fact that I'm tempted to leave it just like this and do the rest of the guitar the same way and give up on a gloss finish. I think the blue even is more noticeable with the matte.

I'd be curious about what people think.


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