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[neverstock]

Well, I received this awesome 4 lb 7 oz custom roasted alder/maple body today. I'm not sure what direction I'm going with it.
This is my first time using Transtint dye to do my own color and finish on a body.
Don't have a good plan for neck or pickup yet.
It also has the extra deep 0.72" neck pocket, which I have not used before. 
I chose the pickup rout, bridge and slanted string holes purely for aesthetics - to bend like the curve of the body.Now I have to make it sound good.

 

[Logrinn]

That’s an awesome looking body.
An offset shred machine. I like it!
:icon_thumright:

 

[neverstock]

Used 99% alcohol with TransTint dyes - black, then amber, numerous dilute coats of each to build up slowly.
Three coats of Tru Oil and it already wants to play drums.

 

[rgand]

Wow, that finish really brought the top alive!  :icon_thumright:

 

[stratamania]

Good progress, but as it is playing the drums it perhaps needs more cowbell?

 

[Cagey]

Nicely done! Getting the grain to pop like that can be a little tricky sometimes.

 

[neverstock]

I've always liked finishes like Tom Anderson's Atlantic Storm and PRS's Trampas Green.
So that's where this is headed, with lots of earth colors, except with nice chatoyance - the figure looks deep and moves.
Now about 7 coats of True Oil in on the top and 6 coats on the back.
Found some figure on the alder back with Transtint black dye, sanded back. The figure in the alder has chatoyance as well.

 

[Logrinn]

That looks absolutely awesome. Bravo!

Nice use of a KM mic stand by the way :icon_thumright:

 

[Rick]

Nice

 

[rgand]

That's a really fine job. Can't wait to see it completed.

 

[BroccoliRob]

That green is dope af! Very clean. I wanna shroud myself in its foliage

 

[neverstock]

Tru Oil coats are done - probably about 20 of them, and it's still very thin.Now I'll put it away for a month or so to cure.
Some pics in the filtered natural light shows how the earthy green top lights up in the light.

Edit, it was suggested to me that the top is reminiscent of the mossy landscape in the Adirondacks. With the pics juxtaposed, I do see it.

 

[rgand]

What an amazing capture of the colors. It's pretty cool that nature has duplicated the coloring of the top on your JM so closely. :icon_biggrin: :icon_thumright:

 

[Rick]

That came out great!  I note you said it looks like a mossy trail in the Adirondacks, I live just south of there.  Are in any part of the Capitol Region?

 

[BigSteve22]

Edit, it was suggested to me that the top is reminiscent of the mossy landscape in the Adirondacks.

Rick, I believe Neverstock is referring to a comment I made to him in a PM. That warm, green color is one of the reasons I always loved hiking in the Adirondacks! If the color was a little more saturated, I might have compared it to the Catskills, where humidity/rain/dew/mist tends to darken the greens a little more. Just IMHO...

 

[Rick]

You know in the Catskills,  Jose Marti, while he was convalescing, inspired him to write his versos sincillos, so beautiful

Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crece la palma
Y antes de morir me quiero
Echar mis versos de alma ...

Mi verso es de un verde claro
Y de un carmín encendido:
Mi verso es un ciervo herido
Que busca en el monte amparo

Con los pobres de la tierra
Quiero yo mi suerte echar:
El arroyo de la sierra
Me complace más que el mar.


I can see him, far away from home, his soul gushing about the wonders in the world, walking in the woods, thinking about the sorrow of his homeland, a deer startling him, looking at a mountain stream and comparing it the ocean ...

The Catskills, hudson valley and the adirondacks, is a beautiful part of the world.  It's gentle beauty makes you ponder.

 

[bagman67]

Yo no soy marinero. Soy capitan.


But seriously, that's a lovely poem, Rick.  Thank you for sharing.

 

[neverstock]

So the body is close to cured but not polished yet. I mocked it up with a neck and the pickup / bridge/some knobs.

This is a Gibson scale neck - quartersawn roasted maple tiltback with a ziricote board and SS frets.

Not sure I like the look. A heavily figured neck would look killer with this especially if I can dye it in a scheme that works. Rosewood or Ziricote just doesn't do much for the body and color I don't think. I've got a heavily figured neck on the way that's Fender scale - was going to another project, but will see how that works before moving forward here.

 

[Verne Bunsen]

Dang but that is a good looking finish, I love it!

 

[Rick]

That body looks awesome.