Sanding the cutaway end grain

[Brendan]

Go by sight - if you can see them, you'll know that they're there... Ultimately you need to be happy with the guitar though so whatever makes you happy. Personally though - I'd rather know that they're gone.

[Gavin1393]

/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from Brendan on June 25, 2013, 18:19
Go by sight - if you can see them, you'll know that they're there... Ultimately you need to be happy with the guitar though so whatever makes you happy. Personally though - I'd rather know that they're gone.

agreed!

[dingobass]

Sand, sand, sand again. then when you are tired of sanding sand again.
Just when you though you had sanded enough, sand again!

[todd_sh]

Ok. Great. Thanks. So, you're saying to keep sanding then. Hahaha.

Thanks all. Sand I will.

[dingobass]

I forgot to mention that when you are sick of sanding, get the wife to do it

[todd_sh]

Ha!

Just spent an hour sanding, and I'm already much happier (both with the result and in general!)

I reckon another hour and I'll be done ... And then 1 hr more by DBs calculations!

Thanks all for the help. Not happy I wasted two coats of wudtone, but happy I sanded back.

[todd_sh]

So, I've sanded, sanded and sanded some more. I thought I was going to be ready for Wudtone last night. Then I sanded some more. I thought I'd be ready this morning, but on further investigation I decided to ... well, sand again.

Now, I'm pretty sure just a little more sanding and then I'll be ready to wudtone when I get a chance over the weekend.

Just a quick follow up question - I have a fairly consistent colour across the body (which is basically the original colour of the basswood with just a yellowy tinge hint of the golderod). there are some areas around the edges that are back to the raw basswood, a few spots that are a little darker, but the differences are a lot less than in my original pics in this thread.

I've seen a few threads on the forum about trouble with over-sanding spots that won't take wudtone, so the question is, a couple of coats of goldenrod, followed by a coat or two of saffron cover up the inconsistencies ... or should I, umm, keep sanding?

Ta

[Gavin1393]

what grit have you finished sanding with?

[todd_sh]

I've been using mainly 240, but yesterday I went back to 120, then 180, then a light rub with 240 and just tonight I gave her a once over with 320 and a very quick 400. I then wiped her down with a wet cloth, and it looks like she's going to take colour ok everywhere ... And hopefully uniformly.

[todd_sh]

Well, for those of you waiting with bated breath (!) I've put the first coat on, and the good news is there aren't any spots that wouldn't take the colour. What is interesting is that the cutaways (and to a lesser degree the bottom) are actually darker than the rest of the body, which may have been the way I applied, or may even up with following coats (which may prove to be a problem given I now look to be running very low on base coat after the two wasted coats). Time will tell, and my build diary will document it. :-)