drifters33 IB-5

**drifters33** · 03-08-2015, 05:26 PM

For my stain i'm going to use walnut from Birchwood Casey as well as using Tru-oil to give a gloss finish

**drifters33** · 03-08-2015, 05:40 PM

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**Arzi** · 03-08-2015, 05:45 PM

Hi Drifters

I bet the walnut is gonna look great on the IB-5. TO is an amazing product - with aim to get a high gloss finish it needs a whole lot of coats so keep calm doing that. There is no way to cut corners when building up but very useful to make the slurry coats couple of times in the beginning. Saves you a lot of time building up the following coats. When there is enough build up and fully dried, it can be wet sanded remarkably like laquer - although with in mind that the coat is thinner. Either use 0000 steel wool to buff between 3-4 coats or build up about 10 coats and you can wet sand the surface with TO - worked wonders on my build. I was so generous in applying the oil myself that I had no worries going through the surface when doing the final sanding and buffing - used approx 180ml on my RC-4. It was a good thing I bought the 240ml bottle...

**wokkaboy** · 03-08-2015, 08:11 PM

nice looking kit Drifters. Walnut and TO will come up very nicely on the ash grain. Good luck !

**drifters33** · 01-10-2015, 09:04 PM

Sorry i haven't posted in a long time, my dad and I have sought of just gone at it. But here are some pictures of what I've done so far:
I have sanded the neck and the body, as well as recessing the jack hole as well as squaring it off on the other side so the nut can sit flush. I have stained the head stock and the body and have put around 7 coats of tru-oil on the body and about 5 on the head stock