Pointless update time.
The neck is coming along. I wound up making up my own colour for it. I put down the Dingotone Black Stump which really just looked dirty on the maple and didn't really darken enough, so I put a couple of coats of the Colortone Mahogany I used on the body over it. Once that cured (as well as it was going to), I hit it with the Dingotone intensifier. That gave me a far less dirty black and far more walnut-esque brown with a hint of red through it. It's not perfect but after a few layers of TO over the top and the colour actually started to look pretty reasonable. It looks a lot less out of place than clearcoated maple would have.

I've put a few layers over the neck, but I'm still working on the headstock, trying to bury the decals. There's no rush - the tuners are still on back order.

I did hit the fretboard with a radius block real quick, but I need to go back over it. It needs a good sand anyway as there are a couple of marks where TO has managed to creep on to the board. I'll give it another go at some stage. I've been debating whether or not I hit the fretboard with the TO as well. There seems to be some people who love it and others who tend to think it'll just seal out the moisture. From a presentation perspective, I think it'd look cool given it's fretless. Still not sure on that one. I can probably get it close with enough layers of lemon oil.

I've waxed the body now it's had a couple of weeks to cure. It's shiny enough and still has the grain showing through how I want it. It'll get a little more wax before I'm finished, but hands glide across it a lot better with it.

The back of the neck is more than adequately coated with TO. There's enough to seal it up, and it just needs a bit of wax to help remove some of that stickiness. I'll do that once the headstock is finished. At 4 layers a day, I figure I might be there some time mid December