I found some ink that I can use and coming weekend I'm gonna get my some little bottles. It is Noris 110S (or also known as Colop 801) and it is a waterbased ink that is especially for applying on bare wood. Of course I'll do some tests on pieces of scrap wood (not that plywood I used yesterday).
I have installed the tuners on the headstock just to see how it looks and I am perfectly happy with it
Unfortunately I had to return the ink I got because it wasn't waterbased but glycerinebased. That could be the same but I didn't want to take a risk. Now I have ink that is specially made for staining wood so that is what I wanted.
But I have been thinking the last couple of days about the back of the body and the neck. I had ordered a (small) can of Rustin's Porefiller. But that can only has 230 gram of substance. I need to mix that with white spirit to make some sort of soft mix. But I fear that is will be not enough to (at least) cover the whole back, sides and neck.
Will I have enough or not.... If not I have a problem because I have to order a new can. Have to wait for it to arrive and use that on a partly done body. Would I see difference in color? I think so...
The other option is to stain everything black with the ink.
Does anyone of you have any experience with a 230 gram can and rubbing in a LP style body, sides and neck?
You don't need very much. It needs to be made up quite wet so that it's liquid enough to fill the pores in the wood. You've got a maple neck, so that won't need filling at all. So it's only really the sides and the back, plus any areas of the veneer that look rough that you need to fill. A little goes a long way and use a flexible plastic scraper to push it into the pores and scrape it flush with the surface, then you don't actually use very much of it. Two thin coats are better than one thick one. All the excess filler will need to be sanded off, so the thinner the overall layer sitting on top of the wood, the easier it is to sand.
Last edited by Simon Barden; 02-04-2017 at 06:15 AM.
I started an hour ago with the first coat of stain. I made a 'light' mix of water and the red ink and followed the exact steps I've seen in all those YT movies.
The process went well but to my shock I saw considerable glue spots popping up! I have taken some pictures and post them later so you can see what I mean.
The spots are most visible around the egde and hopefully I can make that black enough later on. My goal was al very slight rimburst effect but I think it will be a more darker burst.
For now I let it dry and the next coat will be more dark red so I'll put some drops of black ink in the red mixed ink and see what happens.
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