New colours

[ponch]

Another question haha. Just read about pine being hard to stain evenly and they recommend a sealer first before the dye or stain. How would dt go over a fw sanding sealer, or do you recommend ditching the sealer and doing some finer sanding to 400 to inhibit the stain uptake. I'm in the naughty room for life I think.

[Nickosaurus]

That Bondi Blue seriously reminds me of PRS's Faded Denim finish (my favourite)

[wokkaboy]

Another question haha. Just read about pine being hard to stain evenly and they recommend a sealer first before the dye or stain. How would dt go over a fw sanding sealer, or do you recommend ditching the sealer and doing some finer sanding to 400 to inhibit the stain uptake. I'm in the naughty room for life I think.

Andrew, whenever I've stained pine I didn't worry about the sealer. If you sand to 320 I reckon you will be fine, so you gonna put bondi blue on ? not sure if it's available in the store yet, think DB wants some more testing done. I'll try pull my finger out and try the latest batch out

[ponch]

Nah its there, all ordered. Yeah the blue will go on the burnt pine then gloss poly. Ordered the maple tl neck also so I'll hopefully have this one rocking before Christmas.

[wokkaboy]

I got the second intensifying tarkine green coat on an ash ST body and it's deeper, some of the ash grain is tight and hard for the stain to penetrate, but see how 2 more coats go. Stay tuned, I'll probably start a build diary. Headstock will have blackheart sassafras veneer and I've tried it on it and looks choice. Well done DB !
My plan now is to sand back a paulownia LP and do the cap in purple so stay tuned should have pics up in about 90 mins.
Then I got a ST-1 to try bondi blue on so you can see how it looks Andrew, probably tomoz I'll get that sanded back ready

[wokkaboy]

here's some shaded pics to give you an idea, should get a third coat on tomoz, it's going to be 36 degrees in Perth tomoz. roll on summer. Andrew you will have bulk time 47 sleeps till xmas !

[ponch]

That's nice! Can't wait to see the purple.

[wokkaboy]

Either can I, its all sanded ready for a coat, stand by

[ponch]

Standing by!

[wokkaboy]

ok, Im beta testing for DB tarkin green and now this is atherton amethyst (purple) on a paulownia LP, I got as much stain coat in as I could. Same as the tarkine green was quite pale on the first coat. Next coat will be much deeper. Anyway you can see hints of purple. Hopefully I'll get a 2nd coat tomoz.
The first pic is raw before I did any staining, in front is a pencil holder an offcut blackheart sassafras with tarkine green on, its pretty dark the grain but the green still came through