Well, I've had the young bloke doing a bit of work off and on (more off than on!), and taught him how to sand. He's had fun with that!

First we hit it with a black stain, to see if there was anything we could do with the grain. Then it was over to Junior to build up his muscles.



Since the theme of the guitar is going to be a black and white style burst, we got some white stain from a large building, green in colour, and tried that out. Can't say that the results were impressive. The stain was like a thin paint, acting different to the ink I used on my ES-12G. It didn't seem to penetrate the timber at all.

I tried a couple of things on some scrap timber, diluting Liquid Paper with thinners, mixing it with clear (gave a milky translucent finish), but at the end of all our mucking around, we decided to go a solid colour.

In the meantime, after the young bloke pencilled in the headstock design, we tickled it with the jigsaw for a bit, and then more sanding! We also cut out a spot for the battery to mount in the rear, for the active pickups. (router slipped a bit...oops!)



Weather being absolutely brilliant at the moment... I waited till the humidity was just under 70% and put down some colour this afternoon.





Next up is to add the black burst.