Andy40's LP-1SS

[Swanny]

Swanny, you are a life saver...I've been looking for an affordable one of these for ages. I even went to Jaycar to get my soldering station..how did i miss this!

I bought one of their soldering stations about a year ago... I had a Weller station that I bought from my first job at 16, and it finally died. Hopefully the Jaycar one will last as long.

That Karajini Red is coming up beautifully!

[Swanny]

@Wazkelly - It's hard to gauge what the humidity actually is. When I thought it was getting muggy, it was just under 70% - so it's a handy gauge to have.

[wazkelly]

@ Swanny - beats me too as looking on iPhone weather app it shows much higher humidity readings, and mostly at night which seemed odd. Just goes to show that local weather monitoring varies dramatically as it can cover quite a vast distance and is mostly situated outdoors whereas I am using mine to monitor indoor humidity in my garage.

Loving the colour Andy and encourage you to go at least 2 more stain coats on the sides and back and then hit it with at least 2 intensifiers all over too as that really brings out the colour with DT. The trick up here in SEQ seems to be give it at least a week to 10 days between each coat, particularly if it looks thick or layered as when you go to do light 0000 steel wool scuff sanding it may still be a bit green and turn to muck as I have experienced several times over the past few months. Actually gave up on DT top coats due to these hassles and just applied 4th coat of TO tonight and starting to look good. Puzzled at how each level of finishing wants to attract fibrous airborne particles even though I operate in a clean dust free environment. Just means more light sanding every few coats to get rid of such before it gets buried too deep in the layers of finish.

[stan]

Oh my. Tent pitchingly good.

Haha, funny Pabs...

Mate it looks great

[GeneralKaos]

That's looking REALLY good, friend!!

[Andy40]

Thanks Swanny and Waz, I got an Indoor/outdoor temp and humidity guage from Jaycar. I am now in the know instead of just guessing or relying on the internet.

[Andy40]

Update

Research
First stain coat (3 clear days curing) - colour comparison only (no red wine was harmed during the research - I cannot not confirm or deny that any wine didn't perhaps become savored and/or consumed.



Test results: further stain needed

Action taken

No steel wool or sanding - still looks like plenty of tooth there. One further coat of DT Karajini Red applied to entire body and neck all over. (I have enough left in the bottle for one more coat on mahogany only)



Further Action needed
See you in three days time

[tonyw]

Thats going to look really great

[wokkaboy]

looking excellent Andy, you must be happy with the colour now

[Andy40]

looking excellent Andy, you must be happy with the colour now

I agree, but one more stain on mahogany I reckon she'll be perfect.