Tims ash ST-1 linseed oil finish (First Build)

[Brendan]

Nice choice of colours - Dark Tease on Ash - beautiful...

[wokkaboy]

agreed dark tease on ash will look sweet. Dingobass put dark tease on the 1st IB-5 ash bass one coat was enough with the dark grain of the ash.
No excuses Tim if you are waiting for the wudtone plenty of sanding time !

[crundes]

Brendan - Cheers, yeah I'm hoping it will come up nicely, I've heard Dark Tease can be tricky to use as it can start off looking a bit dirty, then it comes good after a couple of coats.

Wokka - Plenty of sanding time indeed! I may have got a bit carried away already as I've already gone through a pitbull sandpaper pack and haven't even started on the neck. Another pack is on the way though so I plan to go through that too before I apply any wudtone. Dingobass' IB-5 looks amazing! If mine turns out half as nice as his I'll be happy.

[Brendan]

Careful with the neck - they generally don't need too much - if you do too much, you may end up giving the neck an unexpected divot. I've found giving them a quick once over with each grit is generally enough.

[crundes]

Cheers for the advice Brendan. I've found sanding really addictive so it's probably lucky you said that as I most likely would have kept on sanding until I ended up with something like this!

[Brendan]

Hate to see that happening, though MaxAxe may be interested in it (slightly smaller stature than some of us)...

[crundes]

Haha fair enough. I'll keep that in mind if the worst happens and I end with an overly sanded guitar!

[maxaxe]

Hate to see that happening, though MaxAxe may be interested in it (slightly smaller stature than some of us)...

Thanks Brendan, that's about as funny as diarrhoea in a wetsuit.
Or is that your idea of a "dark tease?" You will keep :P
That reminds me . . . WHEN is Pitbull gunna do tee shirts in small mens???

BTW that itty guitar piccy is REALLY bloody funny

[crundes]

Yeah the T-shirts are pretty big. My medium almost looks like a dress... I must be slightly smaller in stature too...

So on to guitars!

I've finally cut out the headstock shape and I think I'm pretty pleased. I accidentally printed out a Jazzmaster headstock template and didn't press 'fit to page' so I ended up with a much smaller template than anticipated. I then printed out an american standard template in the correct size and decided to use both the small Jazzmaster template and the correctly sized template to create a bit of a hybrid.

Here are the results

[crundes]

Still not sure if I want to cut the bottom section smaller. I think it may look slightly too big but maybe after a bit of sanding it will look slightly different.