7/8th P90 Plank of Possibility
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Went across the river into Minnesota and visited Menards today. ... They had Minwax transparent blue oil finish on sale, and I considered thst for a few minutes til i noticed it was pretty much 'Wedgewood' blue (I already have a wedgewood blue strat, which I have to keep as it has an original psychedelic painting on it)..
They also had the poplar bleaching powder, which I bought since it was as only six bux!
Reading the instructions, its a pretty fiddly process (simple, but a lot of steps of messing around with hot water). But it would be nice to bleach some of the green/gray tone out, so that the entire body could be more uniformly amber.
After spending an hour in the store today reading the fine print on dozens of labels of various stains and polys, oil and water based... Im thinking the simplest rout will just be to try to bring the overall tone of the body into something more beige/amber like the neck...
They also had the poplar bleaching powder, which I bought since it was as only six bux!
Reading the instructions, its a pretty fiddly process (simple, but a lot of steps of messing around with hot water). But it would be nice to bleach some of the green/gray tone out, so that the entire body could be more uniformly amber.
After spending an hour in the store today reading the fine print on dozens of labels of various stains and polys, oil and water based... Im thinking the simplest rout will just be to try to bring the overall tone of the body into something more beige/amber like the neck...
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Speaking of the Neck, it fits really nice, like every Warmoth!
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The fretboard is considerably more 'amber' in tone, so my strategy revolves around tinting the body a bit more in that direction.
The color contrast best demonstrated here...
The color contrast best demonstrated here...
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My plan is to take the top half of the trem cavity and just apply some amber stain, and see how that works over the darker greenish-grey parts...
If it comes out 'more muddy green than amber', my plan B involves taking the bottom half of that cavity and testing the acid bleaching technique .. and IF bleaching works; the finish strategy then becoming "bleach, then dye, then wipe-on top oil"...
If it comes out 'more muddy green than amber', my plan B involves taking the bottom half of that cavity and testing the acid bleaching technique .. and IF bleaching works; the finish strategy then becoming "bleach, then dye, then wipe-on top oil"...
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PS, i guess i can do stain / bleach testing in the pickup routes too... Nobody will see them after the pickguard is mounted...
