Tim is that a purse or man bag supporting the neck ? Headstock shape looks excellent and looks like the body is well sanded enough. Remember you don't want to over sand the body,the wudtone needs some slightly coarser grain to grab onto. If you have sanded to 240 grit thats generally enough.
Love your mini strat pic as well !
I got a smaller model Rickenbacker bass in my workshop
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
Haha well that's slightly embarrassing. It's my gf's purse, I just grabbed the first thing at hand, didn't even realise! It's definitely hers though mine's a different colour.
haha thats why I had to ask Tim ! I believe you mate
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
Mine's that colour and no one has said anything to me about it ;-0
Lawry has your 'man' purse ever been displayed in a photo ?/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from lawry on January 8, 2014, 15:21
Mine's that colour and no one has said anything to me about it ;-0
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
I reckon you've got it spot on Tim - main thing is that you're happy with it though.
BTW - can see it's not your purse - doesn't go with the shoes
Current builds:
GPB-4B: https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.a...548#post184548
Cheers Brendan, I've sanded it down to 240g now and I'm really happy with it now.
p.s thanks for noticing the purse doesn't go with my shoes. A nice conch girl one would be much more suited I think!
So I've applied a coat of Dark Tease wudtone today and I'm only semi happy with it. I think I may have put it on too thickly, there are certainly some spots that will need slight sanding back to even out the finish. I was hoping for a similar effect to DingoBass' IB-5 in dark tease (probably should have asked him how he did before I started!)
Anyway here are the results.
Don't worry about it too much, you'll be able to even the colour out quite effectively with steel wool when it dries. The first coat of wudtone is always the hardest.
'As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.'
Cheers Pablo, you're right I shouldn't worry about it and it is called Dark Tease for a reason.
I was just hoping the grain would be standing out more, especially on the back where it just seems to have blended the grain so it isn't that pronounced. That being said I took these photos as soon as I finished the Wudtone and I've noticed that as it's drying it's starting to lighten up in colour and bring the grain out a bit more.
Cheers
Tim
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