halfintegerspin
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here are a few pictures showing some progress that i have been making with a new thinline project. i got the body unfinished from warmoth on the screaming deals section as sort of an impulse buy... you know the deal...
i wanted it blue... but not completely blue. i opted to keep the back (ash) fairly natural. I used mahogany colored grain filler from stew mac to fill the grain and tint the ash a bit. i was determined to get a royal blue top with a wipe on dye. i really dislike aqua/teal like colors, and i guess from what i have seen it is hard to get a nice blue (i went through 4 different dyes to finally find one i really liked) i also like the look of natural binding, so i figured i would try that too.
in the first pic i taped off the maple cap so that when i grain filled i didnt tint the edges that would later become the natural binding. the second pic is the partially sanded back mahogany grain filler. i initially wanted to keep it more brown so this is where i stopped on some applications of grain fill, but then i really got critical and wanted a more even color, so i ended up sanding all the way back to a more even tinted ash color (i will show later). in the next pic i finished filling the ash (took me 4 times to get it done well) and have moved on to taping off what will be the natural binding. as you can see i didnt place tape where i wanted binding, i taped off everything else so that i could spray nitro to seal it up so that any dye i would wipe on would not sink in... at least that is what reranch suggested (i think). it helped to some extent. i gave it like 3 coats of nitro then like 24+ hours of relaxing before i taped off the binding itself. finally, i chose an aniline dye soluble in alcohol. i made a darker solution using 3 parts alcohol and 1 part acetone with the LMII aniline blue. i would later sand this back and re-dye with a more dilute mixture to make the flame jump a bit more.
i will post more later (i am actually a bit further than this stage)... i might also include the test maple showing the different colors of blue dye i tried out. i know i had a hard time picking one and then when i got it i found out that it was more a teal color and i hated it...
i wanted it blue... but not completely blue. i opted to keep the back (ash) fairly natural. I used mahogany colored grain filler from stew mac to fill the grain and tint the ash a bit. i was determined to get a royal blue top with a wipe on dye. i really dislike aqua/teal like colors, and i guess from what i have seen it is hard to get a nice blue (i went through 4 different dyes to finally find one i really liked) i also like the look of natural binding, so i figured i would try that too.
in the first pic i taped off the maple cap so that when i grain filled i didnt tint the edges that would later become the natural binding. the second pic is the partially sanded back mahogany grain filler. i initially wanted to keep it more brown so this is where i stopped on some applications of grain fill, but then i really got critical and wanted a more even color, so i ended up sanding all the way back to a more even tinted ash color (i will show later). in the next pic i finished filling the ash (took me 4 times to get it done well) and have moved on to taping off what will be the natural binding. as you can see i didnt place tape where i wanted binding, i taped off everything else so that i could spray nitro to seal it up so that any dye i would wipe on would not sink in... at least that is what reranch suggested (i think). it helped to some extent. i gave it like 3 coats of nitro then like 24+ hours of relaxing before i taped off the binding itself. finally, i chose an aniline dye soluble in alcohol. i made a darker solution using 3 parts alcohol and 1 part acetone with the LMII aniline blue. i would later sand this back and re-dye with a more dilute mixture to make the flame jump a bit more.
i will post more later (i am actually a bit further than this stage)... i might also include the test maple showing the different colors of blue dye i tried out. i know i had a hard time picking one and then when i got it i found out that it was more a teal color and i hated it...