WilliamAgain
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I have a Precision Guitar Kit '59 Les Paul (Limba body, plain maple cap, maple neck, ebony fretboard, ebony veneer). I have been hemming and hawing over how to finish it and have settled on simply doing a natural finish. I love how natural finish LPs age, but new natural finish LPs are simply too damn white. I would like to ever-so-slightly bring out that yellow tint that comes with age. I know that one could use a heat gun or simply leave it out in the sun for a decade, but sans that what are some methods to achieve this? For an example of what I would consider good look at the below link:
http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/norlin-years/185167-question-about-natural-finishes.html#post3556549
That LP has an ever-so-slightly creamy/yellow tint to it which I like. Inversely if you look at this one, it is just to white for my taste:
http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Les-Paul/Gibson-USA/Les-Paul-Studio-Raw-Power.aspx
The ideas that come to mind that might work are, 1) lightly use a coat or two of tinted nitro and follow up with the rest with standard nitro. Or, 2) use some highy-highly-highly watered down amber (or maybe brown?) dye and rub it in and then sand it back a bit and then use clear nitro. Would either of these cause any issue? Would either of these be viable? Any general advice on natural finishes is welcomed!
http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/norlin-years/185167-question-about-natural-finishes.html#post3556549
That LP has an ever-so-slightly creamy/yellow tint to it which I like. Inversely if you look at this one, it is just to white for my taste:
http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Les-Paul/Gibson-USA/Les-Paul-Studio-Raw-Power.aspx
The ideas that come to mind that might work are, 1) lightly use a coat or two of tinted nitro and follow up with the rest with standard nitro. Or, 2) use some highy-highly-highly watered down amber (or maybe brown?) dye and rub it in and then sand it back a bit and then use clear nitro. Would either of these cause any issue? Would either of these be viable? Any general advice on natural finishes is welcomed!