Sheesh - sounds like I'd better make this impressive. Anyway after some serious attacks on the cap to see if I could coax even the smallest amount of the colour in, applying penetroil, more stain, more scratching with a brush, Gav gave me the sad news. It was not going to work.
Dejected and a little disheartened, I sadly gave the body one last sand before thinking - what to do - sand the cap off and go the whole 'hog? (sorry opportunity too good to miss). Do I prepare to go solid colour - a Gold Top Gav suggested. I couldn't quite face it.
Then. Gav dropped the bomb. He did have a couple of lotions and potions at the back of his cupboard. Stuff he had never used. Stuff he was worried would get rid of the flames, but could give me a half decent look. Maybe not fabulous, but might hide the scar a little.
He pulls out a bottle of red StewMac Solid Colour stain.
Try this, pouring some into a small shot glass.
A quick test showed that it worked. The stain went onto the guitar and gave a cover like never before. The glue spot dissapeared in a flash. Moving on I moved to more glue - could this be? Gav had discovered then fountain of unglue! The vision had been for a black to red burst with some flame in the background - he passed over the black solid colour. I applied it to the edges. Smearing it into the centre using gentle swirls, a burst started to show. How could this happen - an ugly duckling turned into this...
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