tiz1

Hi all, I got a small problem with my 12 years old Framus Diablo Pro Guitar. This thing is finishes in a blue like Framus calls it "Colored Oil Finish". Now, over the years there a several spots where the bare wood comes through the finish. So my thought was to carefully reapply some new blue stain to the spots with a syringe and then put some more oil on it. Differencies in color wouldn´t be too severe cause the Swamp Ash-body makes the blue somehow "inhomogeneous" anyway. Now i read in some places, including some manuals from Framus, that this so-called "Colored Oil Finish" got so much in common like Hot Dogs with animals... They say it´s stained and then covered with a coat of matt laquer... . What´s strange about this all is, they give the advice to apply some wax to the surface from time to time and then polish it. Apply wax on laquer? Doesn´t come in my head.. So, can anybody give me an advice how i can refinish this surface? Thanks in advance:) Greetings from Germany, Simon aka. tiz1

Hi Greg, i´m afraid you may be right.. The special piece of spalted maple i´ve only seen on photos yet. It seems that it´s not that rotten and at least a little bit stable. Perhaps i should stabilize it with CA before staining. But is staining still possible after that as i guess the CA "seals" all the pores in the wood, doesn´t it? Or should i try to tint the oil? But with what?

Hi, it would work out for me apart from it HAS to be oiled... . I got no clue if oil can be tinted too. Would look cool i guess. Sealer is another thing. I´ve been told in a german forum to wipe on as many oil-coats as it needs to "seal" the maple this way... Much elbow-grease i know, but over here the variety of finishing products is "a bit" limited

Now, finally after two years of reading and learning, I have to come up with a question for a project i got in my mind for some time. I´m thinking about a Spalted Maple top on a guitar, but stained black. Would this be possible and what may it look like? I don´t know if anyone oy you guys did already do something liek this, the board search didn´t show any results for this. The top should be stained gray to black, but in way that the grain and the spalt remains visible. Just like on quilted or flamed maple. After staining, the top is going to be finished with oil and polished. Any suggestions if it would work the way i want and what i should use? I´m in Germany so choice of stains and oils is a little bit limited compared to the states... Thanks in advance, tiz1 aka. Simon