First coat of oil on the body last night (the colour isn't as green in real life):
I doused the body in the Crimson finishing oil and used 600 grit (initially) to create the slurry. After just one coat the grain is very close to completely filled. You can feel just the slightest bit of grain when you run your fingers over it. The sandpaper did remove a little of the colour around the edge of the burst and on the sides, though, so I switched to 1200 grit halfway through. I'm not a huge fan of relics, but that bit of it isn't too bad.
I thought that the colour in the middle would get a bit "dirty" from the slurry picked up from the black parts around the edge and sure enough it did. I considered sanding the colour off and redoing it, but with the hardware dry-fitted it's much less noticeable and I kinda like the overall look.
I'm going to do another coat tonight, try to get one done in the morning and see how it looks after that. This first application was a soak and grain fill coat, so the finish should start building up from here.
The neck has had four straight coats of oil and a oily wet-sand with 1200. There's a nice, thin finish on it now which feels surprisingly hard, if a little bit squeaky. I put one very thin coat on the fretboard this morning and I'll do a few more until it feels built up enough. Then on to fret dressing.
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