Well overall I'd have to say DT has not worked out the best for me. The colour looked good after the stain and intensifier coats, but has somehow faded while the final coat was drying. Or this may have been user error - perhaps they weren't fully dry when the final coat was added and some came off?
Either way, short of sanding all the way back, which I'm not willing to do, I decided to plow ahead with Tru-Oil after leaving the DT top coat for 4 weeks to dry.
Here's after the first coat of TO dried. Its much shinier than I anticipated but it's very easy to work with so that's a plus. I had an accident when applying TO to the neck and got some big drips on the fingerboard. As a result I ended up doing one very thin coat on the whole fingerboard to make a uniform appearance. I read on a bunch of other forums that others have done this. I won't do any more coats but it's definitely evened up the appearance and I'll wax it later.
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