That cover looks unreal! I would leave it like that. How did you do it???
Printed the cover with the text added. Scraped the crap out of it with a jewelers flat head just to clean up the letters, quick sand around the outer edge then hit it a couple of times with spray paint until I couldn't see the underlying PLA any more. I think the magic came from my 5 year old managing to knock it off on to the garage floor whilst still wet, and managing to get it to land bottom down where I left it to sit for 4 hours (mostly because the garage was about 10C) given there was no way of picking it up without marking the paint.Originally Posted by Andyxlh
It's a fluke it came out that well to be honest. It's by no means perfect, but this bass needs at least a couple of cool features.
I've since ordered a Babicz Fch to go on this as well, so I've now got more money in tuners and the bridge than I do in the timber :P
In other news: I've applied the third coat of the Intensifier this morning. It's starting to darken nicely. There are a few lighter spots on the back of the neck, but I don't think I can do much about that. I'll decide tomorrow morning if I'm going to go for a fourth coat or if I'll hit it with the steel wool and get my first coat of Tru-oil on.
I've watched a couple of videos of different methods people have used to get Tru-oil into really nice finishes. My finest sandpaper at the moment is 400 grit (though I have some finer stuff coming). Very tempted to be aiming for a coat tomorrow and maybe one or two over the weekend, then getting the decals on before adding a couple more coats to help make them look like they grew there. I'm mindful this stuff will change the colour slightly and there is no bare wood, so will be trying to find a point where I don't wind up having a massive light patch behind the decals.
Hopefully the Tru-oil will go over the polyurethane that the decals have been coated with.
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