Hello.
I am working my way up to building a Tele Plus MK1 style guitar from the TLA-1. I just started the kit a few days ago. I've attached some pictures of the guitar, I've sanded and stained the guitar with 2x coats of a Deep Colour Stain - Azure Lagoon, a darker azure lagoon and one of the black ones in a kind of bursty thing.
I've started the burst already with the deep coats, but will make it more pronounced (probably) when I get to the base coats.
You'll notice some patches of the stain are darker. I had some glue problems and after toothing the glue a bit (couldn't seem to remove it entirely), I managed to get a stain going. Feels different to the touch, but should be fine once it is all coated. In the pictures this area is still wet. It's quite thick there and will overstain, but I am hoping I will be able to sand it back a little once it is dry and then match the colour around it without too much hassle.
Not sure if I'll give it another deep colour coat, but I am considering it since it seems to be getting more blue as I go. The stains match on both sides, the picture of the back of the guitar is just a little over-exposed.
The kit was routed by dingo for the bridge pickup to accept a lace dually/humbucker thing... I tested some of the black stain on the inside of the routing (along with some extra wood he kindly provided).
Not really a guitar player, don't really know what I am doing but having fun already...
Thanks...
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