LP-1S "Poison Ivy"

[Joe Piler]

I'll swing by an auto parts store see if they have some if all else fails ebay is your friend lol.

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[wokkaboy]

plans look good Joe, hope the kit arrives soon so you can start sanding

[Joe Piler]

plans look good Joe, hope the kit arrives soon so you can start sanding

Still sitting idle in Perth slowly driving myself mad checking the track & trace

Tru oil should arrive today curious to see what it'll do to the test runs on the scrap wood.

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[Joe Piler]

Update: Eagle1 has left the nest. I repeat... Eagle1 has left the nest.

[Joe Piler]

To arrived!

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[Joe Piler]

Had a go at drawing my headstock decal, came out half decent need to see what i can do about the pencil lines once its dry.

[Joe Piler]

So I'm having some trouble achieving the bright green that o want for a stain, I picked up some acrylic paint at a hobby store. Currently running tests with this. Anyone have any experience with it?


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[wazkelly]

So I'm having some trouble achieving the bright green that o want for a stain, I picked up some acrylic paint at a hobby store. Currently running tests with this. Anyone have any experience with it

Hi Joe, I am in the midst of doing a Tele and used ink jet printer ink, the Cyan Blue one and it is quite bright. I also have a spare Yellow cartridge tank that was nearly used as a tint on the neck.

My point is, why not play around with ink jet inks to mix up a suitable blend as blue and yellow make green. For my Tele I used a mix of 1 part ink to 1 part water but this was after using a couple of eye droppers and many small containers to mix up various test sample ratios that were then applied to a piece of timber to figure out what looked best. Also did the same on my J Bass using Color Tone Cherry Red mixed with some Red fountain pen ink to get a really vivid translucent toffee apple red as it is extremely hard finding the right colour off the shelf for many guitar finishes.

Considered craft type acrylic paint but was worried it would block out the grain as it is meant to be used as a cover not as a tint or stain.

[Joe Piler]

Hi Joe, I am in the midst of doing a Tele and used ink jet printer ink, the Cyan Blue one and it is quite bright. I also have a spare Yellow cartridge tank that was nearly used as a tint on the neck.

My point is, why not play around with ink jet inks to mix up a suitable blend as blue and yellow make green. For my Tele I used a mix of 1 part ink to 1 part water but this was after using a couple of eye droppers and many small containers to mix up various test sample ratios that were then applied to a piece of timber to figure out what looked best. Also did the same on my J Bass using Color Tone Cherry Red mixed with some Red fountain pen ink to get a really vivid translucent toffee apple red as it is extremely hard finding the right colour off the shelf for many guitar finishes.

Considered craft type acrylic paint but was worried it would block out the grain as it is meant to be used as a cover not as a tint or stain.

Hey thanks for your answer, i'm currently in the process of trying the green acrylic with different paint to water ratio's and both with and without black primary layer.

I made sure to get transparant paint as indicated by the empty square on the package see thumb.



Couple layers in i can safely say its being soaked by the wood instead of covering the grain.



The large patch is the one with black ubnderlayer i think my black is still a bit too concentrated.

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[tonyw]

The ideas look good Joe

Looks like its going to be a very creative build.