TD's Scratchy Thinline

[McCreed]

I have levelled the frets, crowned, and polished them. Sanded the bodies to 240 g and gave them a routed 1/4" round edge. Coated with a slurry of pine timbermate, dried and resanded to 240 g.
The knotty body has also been stained with diluted (25%) FW Old Baltic stain. I'm hoping this is going to end up similar in colour to the Dusty Hill bass, but it is going to be finished with Cabot's w/b poly (not tru-oil).

I guess you'll be spraying the poly???
Also, nice stand!

[Trevor Davies]

I guess you'll be spraying the poly???
Also, nice stand!

Yes - spray time! Got some poly today for next weekend. Just need some good weather!

And thanks, yes, my new stand. The lolly-pop stick can allow the guitar to sit a lot further away from the stand, so that there is more room to spray around the sides. It worked well for staining today.

Here is another pic. The blue tele has not been done on the stand - but it has had a couple of sprayed coats of w/b poly with the Star gun. Quite a few more coats are needed!

I'm also going to make a drying stand to hold 4 (or 6) lolly-pop sticks (with bodies and necks) between coats. Hopefully then I can be spraying 2 guitars in succession.