stratamania
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Bagman67 said:
Yes. It looks great.
I have an ash tele still in the box to finish. I am planning a natural finish but this is food for thought in the future.
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Yes. It looks great.
I have an ash tele still in the box to finish. I am planning a natural finish but this is food for thought in the future.
bagman67
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Just to set the record straight, that guitar body was the mechanism for my learning a lot of stuff and it never actually got put into service, since the final lessons it taught me involved completely cheesing up the screw extractions when I broke 2 of them off when installing the bridge. At that point I just chucked it. I figured I had paid my 80 bucks for an off brand body specifically so that if I blew it every which way, I could afford to walk away. Much learning there, but not much useful outcome on the build itself.
The India ink idea was itself an attempt to come up with a wholly different effect, but it came out good for the high-contrast grain effect under the dye.
The India ink idea was itself an attempt to come up with a wholly different effect, but it came out good for the high-contrast grain effect under the dye.
I like simple things that work really, really well. 
ccasion14:
I have a huge (probably similar size) bottle of brown Chinese calligraphy ink. MMMMMMM... I lived in that (fountain pen) world for quite some time, and I know about mixing inks, you can add the shellac, some gum arabic, all sorts of fine-tuning available. At one point I was thinking about putting a red dye on my walnut Jaguar/Warheaded 24-fret slide monster. I didn't have dye, but I had fountain pen ink - aniline - which is so close to wood dye and Rit & easter-egg dyes it hardly matters!
ccasion14:I have a huge (probably similar size) bottle of brown Chinese calligraphy ink. MMMMMMM... I lived in that (fountain pen) world for quite some time, and I know about mixing inks, you can add the shellac, some gum arabic, all sorts of fine-tuning available. At one point I was thinking about putting a red dye on my walnut Jaguar/Warheaded 24-fret slide monster. I didn't have dye, but I had fountain pen ink - aniline - which is so close to wood dye and Rit & easter-egg dyes it hardly matters!
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Bagman67 said:
Thats how this happened...
Burnished through the ink after applying the first top coat of tru oil while wetsanding, and for some reason could NOT get it to retake, but I was also using Sumi-e, which is water base not shellac based like india ink.
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swarfrat
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Wouldn't it be nice if I'll finishing accidents were that good looking
