Bear Brower
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I've been working on my walnut Velocity body and Warmouth neck for awhile now. It's finally starting to look like I want, but not without a hiccup or two along the way.
I'm using Watco tung oil finish. It was looking really nice after the first 5 coats and I probably should have stopped there. But, I was starting to see a nice gloss sheen emerging, so I continued.
We'll, at some point I looked at it and it looked awful. I am limited in my small house for work space with a kid and cats running around, and the finish suffered for it.
With each thinly applied and wiped coat, a new layer of hair and dust was finding it's way into the body. Not a good look.
Out came the 220 grit, then 600 and finally the 0000 buffing pad. It still looked bad, but was baby smooth. Now I tried something unorthodox. I had a Shur-line edger and refill pads laying around from repainting the house some years ago and said to myself "wtf, let's see what happens"
I used one pad too apply the tung oil finish and another dry one to wipe off. Wow, what a difference! Now, there's still a few hairs in it that I'll have to live with, along with a couple runs and sags, but with some TLC, I think it will sand and buff down to something workable.
I didn't go nearly as heavy on the neck, so it's largely ready.
Because the coat is so heavy, I'm just going to let it sit a good month before I start that process because I think a coat this heavy will definitely take its sweet time to fully cure .
Time will tell and I'll update when I think it's ready for the next steps.
I'm using Watco tung oil finish. It was looking really nice after the first 5 coats and I probably should have stopped there. But, I was starting to see a nice gloss sheen emerging, so I continued.
We'll, at some point I looked at it and it looked awful. I am limited in my small house for work space with a kid and cats running around, and the finish suffered for it.
With each thinly applied and wiped coat, a new layer of hair and dust was finding it's way into the body. Not a good look.
Out came the 220 grit, then 600 and finally the 0000 buffing pad. It still looked bad, but was baby smooth. Now I tried something unorthodox. I had a Shur-line edger and refill pads laying around from repainting the house some years ago and said to myself "wtf, let's see what happens"
I used one pad too apply the tung oil finish and another dry one to wipe off. Wow, what a difference! Now, there's still a few hairs in it that I'll have to live with, along with a couple runs and sags, but with some TLC, I think it will sand and buff down to something workable.
I didn't go nearly as heavy on the neck, so it's largely ready.
Because the coat is so heavy, I'm just going to let it sit a good month before I start that process because I think a coat this heavy will definitely take its sweet time to fully cure .
Time will tell and I'll update when I think it's ready for the next steps.