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Thanks man; yeah, I was pretty shocked at how well it came together! Practiced the fudge out of it which I'm sure helped a lot (not exaggerating when I say I spent most of my free time over several weeks working on scrap wood). Thing rips too. Really happy I beveled the heck outta the cutaway and...

Are there any permalinks for the banner image thingy? I see a temporary link in the page source, but it looks like it's a temporary one just for the page itself as I'm sure the destination "GuitarOfMonth.png" changes every time a new winner is announced.

I am a student so... you aren't wrong. Gotta keep those expenses down somehow!

It's all keda wood dye... I found the bare-bones out of the box recommended recipes by them left a little to be desired in terms of depth/saturation, so I upped the concentrations a bit, which are listed in the full video. It is my understanding that temperature and humidity play a big role...

Thanks everyone, and stellar job to all the other people involved in this month's voting!

Also like the aged look, but if you have acidic sweat like me, just play the guitar outside a lot and you'll get tarnish in a matter of <10 gigs XD

I was patient and just let it cure and at this point... I don't even care thank god! Just left the little amounts of orange peel; p sure no one but me will notice it for now and I'll save some urethane layers for when I scratch it to hell gigging with it!

To be honest by the time I got to the actual soloist itself... After doing several weeks of of 3 inch by 5 inch small "blocks" (which leave like ZERO room for bursting and take a looot of finesse to get a decent blend), I was honestly surprised at how easy the actual instrument itself was to get...

Thanks guys :) Now I just gotta not get too excited and jump the gun on the urethane curing...

Finally got an 80s shredder glossed up (yeah, I know there's some orange peel in the 2k urethane... oh well), which turned out pretty awesome so I thought I'd share with ya'll. I logged everything pretty meticulously, and started recording after the first layer of dye went down, so hopefully...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BXTD7CJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 These work great in 10-24. Put them in a roasted flame maple neck; build pics are forthcoming, but they work fantastically. I followed this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Us4j2puTs and had no...

This. I had my whole instrument strung up and tuned before finishing to make sure I was comfortable with it, since there's no easy "undo" after finishing is done. I actually despised the 24 fret access on my neck and ended up disassembling and then grinding out a quite deep bevel on the body...

It's all keda in a 3 layer sandback. When I realized it was gonna turn out badass after layer 1 dried, I started taking videos which have all my dye recipes/concentrations recorded as well which I'll post when I get it glossed up!

Nope I haven't done anything yet... hoping for either a report of something that works under a polyester before sinking in the cash... I honestly didn't expect the dye to turn out well enough that I'd actually be all that concerned about getting an exact mirror finish hahaha

Yup that's what Im very afraid of.. haha. I agree spray on something... but what goes under polyester/urethane and does not disturb dye, or will reliably not put witness lines in polyurethane, seems real not clear :(