I'm going to torch this thing!

[jerryjg]

torch oit, and antique it! ( chains and stuff).

 

[Tonar8352]

Jack is right on target! Glad to see you back around Jack!  
Here is the first test board and I’m playing around with color to get as close as I can to the color T50 is after.  I was not very thorough with the prep on this piece because I was more interested in what I would get with the brown dye after that scorch. I am going to add a wash coat of clear tomorrow and then a shade coat of Van Dyke Brown and see where that lands me.
Starting to torch.

Torch complete.

Sand with Norton 320 Paper. Forgive the fingernails but I use them to pick the geetar. :guitaristgif:

MEK Dye.

Stained with dye right out of the jar.

And I only started my work table on fire twice.  :laughing11:

 

[Mor Paul]

That should look pretty good with the clear coats.

 

[T50]

Very interesting....  

I am so anxious to see how this body project would unfold...

 

[stubhead]

I first saw this on the Andreas guitars, I think they used "larch", which is a Siberian piney/birchy thing.
http://www.northernperiphery.net/managers/Library%5CProject%20Publications%5CSiblarch%5CSiblarch%20Brochure.pdf

Put it on the list...

 

[Watershed]

Looks great Tonar!
Nice progress.

Stained with dye right out of the jar.

Ah haa, I have been having issues getting the MEK dye to work for me.
I was mixing it lacquer, thinning it, etc.
Didn't really pursue the direct from bottle route.

James

 

[m4rk0]

I first saw this on the Andreas guitars, I think they used "larch", which is a Siberian piney/birchy thing.
http://www.northernperiphery.net/managers/Library%5CProject%20Publications%5CSiblarch%5CSiblarch%20Brochure.pdf

Put it on the list...

 

[MUYFUE]

Looks great so far!
:headbang1:

I like how you can take a relatively plain piece of wood and give it some real unique character.
I'm getting all sorts of ideas...

 

[chrisg]

Certainly starting to show a lot more promise than I initially envisaged.  That Larch is an interesting look - wonder how it sounds?  :glasses9:

 

[jay4321]

Certainly starting to show a lot more promise than I initially envisaged.  That Larch is an interesting look - wonder how it sounds?  :glasses9:

I don't know, but I do know that back cavity cover just isn't big enough

 

[dbw]

Certainly starting to show a lot more promise than I initially envisaged.  That Larch is an interesting look - wonder how it sounds?  :glasses9:

I don't know, but I do know that back cavity cover just isn't big enough

Yes, well that's the price you pay for pickups installed from the rear.  Though it could have been done a little better... or at least they could have used wood...

 

[kboman]

I first saw this on the Andreas guitars, I think they used "larch", which is a Siberian piney/birchy thing.

Not all that unusual where I live in southern Sweden, I grew up with two larch trees next to the house. They look great and have needles like pine or spruce, but the larch's needles go red-brown in autumn and are dropped like leaves. Which my mother hated, hehe

 

[Tonar8352]

And I did not burn the house down.

 

[Mor Paul]

Looks nice, Tonar!
Can't wait for color and clear

 

[Watershed]

Nice work, very even.

 

[DangerousR6]

Very cool indeed.... :headbang:

 

[Keyser Soze]

Certainly starting to show a lot more promise than I initially envisaged.  That Larch is an interesting look - wonder how it sounds?  :glasses9:

I don't know, but I do know that back cavity cover just isn't big enough

Combination guitar/lunch box?

 

[DangerousR6]

Certainly starting to show a lot more promise than I initially envisaged.  That Larch is an interesting look - wonder how it sounds?  :glasses9:

I don't know, but I do know that back cavity cover just isn't big enough

Combination guitar/lunch box?

Not hardly lunch box kinda room, barely enough for a doobie... :laughing11:

 

[Tonar8352]

Next step; final color sample waiting for approval from T50.  This has been shot with 2 wash coats of lacquer, gained filled with Mahogany grain filler and then hit with 2 coats of clear gloss.  If T likes it were off to the races if not I make more samples to nail what he is after.

 

[Nando Vallart]

Looks damn cool!