Korina VIP with Wenge top, wenge neck and ebony fingerboard

[OzziePete]

Wow. That is a great example of a wenge top. Great sounding too. Congrats! :headbang: :icon_thumright:

 

[Kublai]

Beautiful guitar. I am curious about finishing wenge. Did you do any prep sanding or anything? Or did you go straight for the Tru Oil?

 

[Kvebbs]

Kublai - I knew, and still know, practically nothing about finishing! So I simply cleaned it with naphta and hit it with tru oil! No sanding, no prepping, no nothing... kept it real simple. For 3 coats I used cloth, and veeeeerrryyyy little tru oil. Let it dry for 6-7 hours or something like that between coats. For the last coat I used my fingers (The cloth I used left some fibres, dust and stuff, so I wanted to get the last coat as clean as possible...). The last one was significantly harder since I had less control over how much oil I put on, but as long as you pay attention it will work out just fine!

 

[jeffgtr]

Lovely looking guitar..but I think the clips just wrecked my curiousity about wenge on guitars..bit too dark/muffled..

anyone else got any wenge clips? perhaps with different pups?

 

[DangerousR6]

WOW, that's a seriously cool VIP.... :icon_thumright:

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

That is absolutely beautiful.

 

[AprioriMark]

I love this guitar.  Awesome choices all around.

-Mark