Andy40's LP-1SS

[wokkaboy]

sounds good Andy.
If you are ever in doubt, any question , ask the forum and someone can probably help

[Swanny]

I went to Jaycar and bought a $25 weather station - it shows the temperature and humidity. I find it handy to tell me whether to spray or not to spray in the humid Brizzy environment. Plus I love electronic gadgets!

[Andy40]

I went to Jaycar and bought a $25 weather station - it shows the temperature and humidity. I find it handy to tell me whether to spray or not to spray in the humid Brizzy environment. Plus I love electronic gadgets!

Swanny, you are a life saver...I've been looking for an affordable one of these for ages. I even went to Jaycar to get my soldering station..how did i miss this!

[Swanny]

Swanny, you are a life saver...I've been looking for an affordable one of these for ages. I even went to Jaycar to get my soldering station..how did i miss this!

I bought one of their soldering stations about a year ago... I had a Weller station that I bought from my first job at 16, and it finally died. Hopefully the Jaycar one will last as long.

That Karajini Red is coming up beautifully!

[wazkelly]

I went to Jaycar and bought a $25 weather station - it shows the temperature and humidity. I find it handy to tell me whether to spray or not to spray in the humid Brizzy environment. Plus I love electronic gadgets!

Yep, I bought one a couple of weeks ago too as this spring humidity was driving me nuts with figuring out curing time using DT.

[Swanny]

@Wazkelly - It's hard to gauge what the humidity actually is. When I thought it was getting muggy, it was just under 70% - so it's a handy gauge to have.

[wazkelly]

@ Swanny - beats me too as looking on iPhone weather app it shows much higher humidity readings, and mostly at night which seemed odd. Just goes to show that local weather monitoring varies dramatically as it can cover quite a vast distance and is mostly situated outdoors whereas I am using mine to monitor indoor humidity in my garage.

Loving the colour Andy and encourage you to go at least 2 more stain coats on the sides and back and then hit it with at least 2 intensifiers all over too as that really brings out the colour with DT. The trick up here in SEQ seems to be give it at least a week to 10 days between each coat, particularly if it looks thick or layered as when you go to do light 0000 steel wool scuff sanding it may still be a bit green and turn to muck as I have experienced several times over the past few months. Actually gave up on DT top coats due to these hassles and just applied 4th coat of TO tonight and starting to look good. Puzzled at how each level of finishing wants to attract fibrous airborne particles even though I operate in a clean dust free environment. Just means more light sanding every few coats to get rid of such before it gets buried too deep in the layers of finish.

[Andy40]

What a morning! finished my sanding prep. donned the Nitrile gloves, ripped out my 5x5 100% cotton cloth and a fine bottle of Karijini Red.

It all went pretty fast, the rag was wet and red, there was a lot of rubbing involved...pretty sure I pitched a tent somewhere in there, but in the end one coat of Karijini Red was applied to the entire body and neck.

I think because of the ebony timbermate The spalted maple is about as dark as i want it, I'd like the mahogany a bit darker so I might apply another coat on just the mahogany parts.
Do I have to wait until its cured or can I apply the next stain coat whenever?

[wokkaboy]

nice one Andy that looks unreal. You got to be happy with that !
If you applied the stain coat pretty heavy, DB normally says you should wait 2-3 days for the first coat to cure.
It's usually ok to re-apply within an hour or 2 if it went on fairly lightly. On the safe side I'd let it cure.
Can we please have an above photo of that lovely spalt cap ?

[pablopepper]

Oh my. Tent pitchingly good.