My hardtail strat build

[king casey]

This is my latest Non-PB build. Just finished it yesterday after starting approximately 74 days ago.

Excellent result. I know how hard it is to conceal a blocked up tremolo rout.

Envy how you have accomplished the string holes.

FWIW I got a similar neck colour using good 'ol FW Golden Teak.

I used it on my version of the 'hardtail' strat.



cheers, Mark.

[McCreed]

That's nice Mark!
Yes, neck colour is very close. The FW probably would have been easier than repeatedly mixing and testing my dyes, but it seems I rarely do things the easy way!

[McCreed]

Do you recall the recipe for that color?

I was thinking mostly yellow, I bit of red to bring in some orange flavor and perhaps a touch brown to settle down the vibrancy a bit.
I have no idea in the ratios just yet.

Ok, I checked my notes and they're not as straightforward as I thought.
I used a combination of Basic Yellow as a base (powder and alcohol) and mixed in a bit of Angelus "Brandy" (premixed liquid). I have no idea what goes into making the Brandy colour, and to top it off, at some point I did a couple coats of just heavily diluted Brandy.

So, sorry, not much help.

However I can tell you a couple of observations I made during the process.
One, it doesn't take a lot yellow powder to alcohol to get an effective yellow dye solution. Two, if adding red, it takes just a ridiculously small amount to turn it VERY ORANGE.
Actually, I would just try yellow with a smidge of brown first. That might be all you need. FWIW, the Brandy I have is quite brown on its own on a test piece of pine.

Unfortunately I think there'll be some experimentation required no matter what you do.
Maybe a Golden Teak stain as Casey mentioned earlier would save a bit of mucking around.

Good luck. Post some pics when you get going!

[FunkedOut]

Thanks for taking the time to look that up and post it.
I have been posting pics of my progress:
https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.a...ead.php?t=9642

I’m just about getting to the part about the colors.
I’ll share what I come up with.

Back to your axe, enjoy the fruit of your labor!