First Guitar build Ever, Starting with a scratchie.

[farnzie]

Farnzie I'm blown away you are a natural builder you must have got the knack at birth. Looks stunning. Love the dark stain colour

Thanks wokka, i have been thinking about building a scratch guitar for about 6 months and had been watching a heap of youtube video's on how to do it so i had a fair idea on how i was going to build it. I was going to go a tru oil finish but im thinking i might try a wipe on poly, hopefully once i put the poly on i might darken it up a little.

holy cow, mate you are doing a ripper job

Thanks stan.

[andrewdosborne]

You've nailed this one farnzie and inspired me to have a go at a scratchie. Good job.


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[jarrod]

Nice work fella

[Gavin1393]

Ferules and routing work looks excellent Farnzie.

[vh2580]

Farnzie that looks amazing.

[stan]

your first guitar and you do a scratch carved top Tele, and you are nailing it. some people have all the skills.... well done

[farnzie]

Thanks for all the kind words, im having a blast building this guitar, makes the time at work go faster thinking about what my next step is on this project. i put another coat of stain on tonight but when i had a closer look i have left a fair few scratches in the body from when i was sanding. i have decided that before i go any further i am going to sand the stain back and sand it to a higher grit.
i only went to 180g last time so i'm thinking ill sand up to 400g. what grit do you guys sand to before stain?

[wokkaboy]

Hey Farnzie, usually minimum 320 grit before staining. Don't go higher than 400 grit as it polishes the surface and the stain doesn't have much tooth to soak into

[robin]

Truly amazing what you have accomplished so far farnzie. Great job.

I usually go to 400 grit but I imagine that is going a bit overboard. But I'm a bit anal that way. Whatever grit you go to make sure that you don't start to polish the wood as it will stop the stain from taking evenly.

rob

Edit: Darn ninja'd by Warren.

[farnzie]

Hey Farnzie, usually minimum 320 grit before staining. Don't go higher than 400 grit as it polishes the surface and the stain doesn't have much tooth to soak into

ok thanks wokka, ill have another go at it tomorrow.