Well post office just dropped off my neck, and I was real anxious to see what I was getting. I mean I paid more than my first showcase koa neck spec for koa and I kept expecting that it'd be plain as hell koa (that would look no different from mahogany to boot, seen too much of those kind of koa) and I was pleasantly surprised to find this:
I find flame figure pretty much throughout the whole neck, even though it doesn't seem as dramatic as I have seen on the net, it's still good, its shown wet to let the figure pop....
Yea I think I will coat it with shellac and start the grainfilling process, any suggestions? should I use shellac then pumice or use stewmac colortone dark filler? Or should I just spray a coat of sanding sealer then colortone filler then shellac?
I want to use shellac as an enhancer as well as adhesion promoter... I don't like sanding sealer because it's got cloudy stuff in it that's going to make things less transparent.
The fretboard is ebony, abalone dot, ss6115 fret...
I find flame figure pretty much throughout the whole neck, even though it doesn't seem as dramatic as I have seen on the net, it's still good, its shown wet to let the figure pop....
Yea I think I will coat it with shellac and start the grainfilling process, any suggestions? should I use shellac then pumice or use stewmac colortone dark filler? Or should I just spray a coat of sanding sealer then colortone filler then shellac?
I want to use shellac as an enhancer as well as adhesion promoter... I don't like sanding sealer because it's got cloudy stuff in it that's going to make things less transparent.
The fretboard is ebony, abalone dot, ss6115 fret...
