It's well and truly under way. Picture 1 shows just how open grained Black Korina is. I sand/sealed it first up and left it overnight. Pic 2 shows it wet with the sealer, way different to how it looked out of the box. Next job was sanding it all back (400 paper) before grain filling. I mixed light filler with a brown stain (feast-watson 'jarrah') and a bit of turps to make a fairly sloppy paste and rubbed it on with a cloth pad. Then I scraped off the excess with a credit card and hit the sack. The filler dried almost pink (see Pic 3) but after sanding it all back with 400 wet/dry to 1200 followed by 0000 steel wool the filler looks right and the surface is ready to apply the Tung oil (Pic 4) I'm waiting for the neck and other bits to arrive, hopefully before the weekend.......later Willy