Well it has been a couple of days of roller coasting with stains etc.
It was going well on the whole with a finish similar to the last photos above.
Got close to what I wanted, even the OH said 'that's nice, I like that'.
Wish I had taken some decent photos....sighs.
Anyway, I was keen to fill the grain with the gold grain filler from Crimson.
Very little 'how to's' with the filler on their site so I thought, 'lets give it a go, what's to loose' - grits teeth.
Put a coat of the filler on, it is very gold.
Sanded it off to find that it had indeed filled the grain with gold but the sunburst finish has now gone.
Bugger.....
The instructions say to use two coats but after sanding the body is very smooth so I think I will stop there.
The bad news is that if you add any more stain it just disappears.
Not sure what is going on there but that is how it is.
I have a suspicion that the filler is 'solvent' based so I might drop Crimson an email and ask them.
It could be that if I used a solvent based stain it might stay on but the water one just vanishes.
The photo of the neck end of the body had black and red stain applied to it after the gold and this is what it looks like.
The good news is that if I wipe the body down with a damp cloth it does have a glossy red and gold effect.
I am hoping that it will turn out like that after I have applied the gloss finish haha.
Time to have to have a bit of a rethink on the front, no gold stain going on there !
As a point of interest I masked the mother of toilet seat binding along the long edge with
masking tape and used the latex type of Frisk masking fluid on the short edge which worked very well.
There was a small amount of creep on the masking tape side but the frisk stuff seemed impervious.
Only some minor scraping to do.
The photos are not quite how it looks, taken in artificial light but I have tried to balance back
to normal light using Affinity but can't devote much time to that.
The pics should give you all an idea though (if anyone is still reading haha).
There is an old worn vibe to the finish now which i like (the OH does not like it haha).
Onwards and upwards, I heard today that the acoustic being made for me will be ready at the
end of this month.
That took him seven months, I have only been doing this a couple of days
and I am almost finished....
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