Rickgrxbass
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I decided to go pretty straightforward with my G4: a very subtle brown dye under a tung oil finish. For the dye coat I combined tung oil, turpentine (well, turpatine), and 2 sample packets of Varathane American Walnut stain ($0.50 from home improvement store :icon_thumright
into a slurry not entirely dissimilar to breakroom coffee. You know the stuff, the coffee Jim made when he got in at 8:00 and it's still there on the warm pot at 3:15, you add four creamers to it but it's still pretty dark and gross looking:
In retrospect, I realize there is enough there for about five hundred coats...
Anyway, after two skim coats, the stain did a pretty good job of accenting the figuring and evening out the color in the lighter heartwood:
And after only four or five coats of straight tung oil, I'm already getting a nice gloss:
Oh, wait. That's just wet oil. Oh well, now I have time to order my neck.
into a slurry not entirely dissimilar to breakroom coffee. You know the stuff, the coffee Jim made when he got in at 8:00 and it's still there on the warm pot at 3:15, you add four creamers to it but it's still pretty dark and gross looking:
In retrospect, I realize there is enough there for about five hundred coats...
Anyway, after two skim coats, the stain did a pretty good job of accenting the figuring and evening out the color in the lighter heartwood:
And after only four or five coats of straight tung oil, I'm already getting a nice gloss:
Oh, wait. That's just wet oil. Oh well, now I have time to order my neck.
