Finally found some. Not easy as most of the gun shops didn’t stock. The place I found said most of their customers for it are guitar builders.Originally Posted by McCreed
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Finally found some. Not easy as most of the gun shops didn’t stock. The place I found said most of their customers for it are guitar builders.
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Which shop did you find it? Last time I ordered some from a shop over east.
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Down Range firearms in Balcatta on Erindale road. Next to Altronics which was also useful as I found some smaller slimmer washers for my DPDT swtiches whilst picking it up. I have given up on any more coats until the temperature drops as even with turps mixed in the oil it is not laying as smooth as it normally does when it is 10 degrees cooler.
Finally a bit cooler at night and first thing. Slurry method of burying the exposed grain is working a treat. 3 rounds of 2000 grit wet and dry with truoil has filled all the grain nicely. (I had run out of 400-600 grit as advised and thought I would go conservative). Finish is getting very smooth indeed with a nice sheen.
Photo doesn’t really do it justice as shows wet tru oil which is bit unsmooth but after a quick wipe with tex pad 1200 grit it comes up a treat. No grain under light at all angles.
Headstock decal burying continues. Reckon at least 10 more coats before I am happy.
Getting close to the home stretch to start working on gloss finish
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Last edited by mrpearson; 22-01-2022 at 07:42 AM.
That's looking much better!
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McCreed thanks for the advice to give me confidence to try the slurry process.
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No worries. Just passing on what's been passed on to me...
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Great work. On the home stretch now
Morning all. Question around best practice to bury decals and hide the outline. So far I have layered around 15 coats of truoil over the decal smoothing each layer with tex pad (1200 grit). When feeling the surface it feels smooth but In the light I can see where the decal outline is by the way the light reflects.
From what I hear I reckon I will need another 15 coats of oil to hide the refraction of light. Should I be wet sanding as well to level ???
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I've never tried burying a decal with Tru Oil (plenty of others here have though so hopefully one of them will reply) but I wouldn't be sanding after each coat. Even if it as fine as 1200.
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