Ok....this might hurt a lot of people eyes. let's not dwell on the details on how I got to this point. This was put together...hastley. It's all about how it can be made into less of an embarrassment.
Pretty much everything was going fine until I stained the body and realised the binding had a million cracks that the stain seeped into. I've seen this on a couple of bindings on this forum with people thinking the cracks are already there and can't be seen until the stain is applied.
So I pretty much lost heart in the build after that which can obviously be seen with the gloss,neck...etc etc
I have now finished another build which went great so I'm now revisiting this monstrosity.
Everyone was so nice on this community with advice and help with my other build so I'm reaching out again for so more to salvage something from this. Any ideas are much appreciated.
So far I am thinking of sanding down the whole body back down to the natural wood and hoping the grain has popped out a bit more with the stain, if not, I'll put some black grout on and sand back again.
The cracked binding nothing can be done so I am going to go for the aged/relic look for the whole thing. I can source some acid so I'm going to treat the silver hardware.
I will possibly blowtorch parts of the body and neck depending on how it looks when sanded back.
None of this is set in stone so any other ideas are welcome.
The main issue I have no idea about how to fix is the glue that has leaked at the back of the neck. Any way of tidying it up? I used an epoxy glue.
Many thanks in advance
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