Quote Originally Posted by ozzbike View Post
Cliff how much dye did it take to get dark? I watched the video of the Big D guy...and he seems to just pour it out onto a cloth and smear it around.

I am wondering if I do it with a cotton ball inside a rag balled up like a shellac mop if this will control the soak up of the dye and then the application flow.

This is such a nice guitar I don't want to mess it up with a learning curve.

Honestly I would normally try a new finish on a solid basswood body first.

The body is mahogany with a spalted maple veneer. The body does not bother me at all....I don't want to lose this veneer...but I want it to look nice too.

Really tempted to just seal it.....clear finish...with maybe a few coats of the tinted aerosol Poly I have here. But I also wanted an excellent looking kit like this to be totally different and to stand out.

Easy and safe way.....or push the limits of my skills and abilities???????
It was the Swamp Ash that coloured up very dark very quickly, the crappie pine not so much.

I didn’t bother with a cotton ball, I just used a wad of T shirt material folded up a couple of times.

I have 4 kits with very thin veneer tops and I haven’t been game to start on them.

I am playing with solid bodies that I can sand back until I am confident enough to start on the veneer.

3 of them also have binding that is likely to be a problem with the strong dyes.