Charlie H 72

Yup-definitely trying to avoid the coffee table look! Maybe a tinted lacquer would help me out. Dark amber or even some of the sunburst colors stewmac sells (tobacco or mahogany color could be good) I tried a Mohawk “dark walnut” aerosol toner on some scrap today and it simply was not up to the task. Didn’t seem to make much of a difference. What’s a toner anyway? Id be really happy with something like this:

Good thought, and nice examples! I should carve some offcuts and see how the grain behaves. I like “toyish” and cheap-looking guitars so the plain mahogany appeals to me in that sense, calling back to gibson melody makers and lp jrs — but they generally had such plain grain that it was more “keep moving, nothing to see here” than “oh wow mahogany!”

Could you use a 4 (or 5) way switch to turn the power on, freeing up both pots for effects (overdrive & verb?) not sure how the wiring would work out, but worth a try or use two push pull or push push pots to select pickups (which gives you an option to combine in series/parallel as well) and then the switch is free to operate amp settings

This is awesome— what a cool shape. And a huge cavity holy cow im impressed at all the fretboards in one day too. I keep buying my fretboards pre-slotted from stewmac but the quality has been off lately so maybe it’s time. What’s your process like?

Now for question 1 I started in on mine yesterday - The sapele was free (thanks to my own mistake at work ) and I’m not into the ribbon figure. How would you go about finishing it to reduce the figure as much as possible? I still want a clear finish. Maybe stewmac’s mahogany tinted lacquer? Or a dark amber lacquer? Or should I just go and buy a different species of mahogany?

Hi everyone I’m doing a run of four offsets - they are a little smaller than a mustang, with some Ricky and hi-flier inspired details mine is gonna look like this and the others will look something like these. I’m not totally set on the German carve but we’ll see.

Looks like a great build coming up! The knobs are quite close together which could cause some difficulty. They are also far from where your hands will fall while playing, which could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how often you like to access the controls.

Totally bonkers!! I love the gradient from pink to blu on the back-wish there was a little more of that on the front.

Wow awesome! A very mid century modern look. Scalloping is a great idea for vibrato too. Love it.

Now to the one in-progress, the ocean turquoise metallic. This is going to be the most vintage/classic of them all and I’m pretty excited about the look but I do have a finishing question. QUESTION- This guitar is clear-coated with Gracey’s nitro, and topped with a single coat of stewmac satin. I did the last coats the heaviest, kept em as wet as I dared in attempt to avoid orange peel. Still obviously got orange peel. Im not sure I can level sand, as the wood grain seems to have popped a bit throughout the finishing process. Are my options here to either start over or live with it? To what extent can I level when the grain is this visible? I’m pretty happy with it, and considering leaving it as-is but if there’s a way I can knock down the orange peel I’d love to hear it, thanks!

Ok so I finished one guitar-which I’m stoked about, and the last of this run is still in process. so the complete one - painted with road-sign paint which is highly reflective in direct light. Octave d, g, strings, double b string, tuned with zither pins. ebony/aluminum bridge, holographic acrylic PG, fret markers, (backed with copper) and knobs (handmade) With the new owner-and taken w a flash so you can see the road-sign paint doing its thing!

Awesome-they look excellent, thanks for the tips! Haven’t gotten around to the knobs yet but I will.. one day. Custom hardware just makes a build next-level. I ended up just using bondo, which worked well enough. I had a hard time leveling too, as you will see. Maybe my last time using poplar .. hm

Ok got a question here -first coat of (nitro) primer is on (poplar body), and it has revealed a few dings and areas w/ a little grain showing thru such as these photos. What would you do here? Keep priming and leveling, a little bondo, sand way back down?

Hey y’all who was it that did the knobs with (padauk? Rosewood?) set into an aluminum tube? I’m thinking something similar would look great with the teal guitar ah these by @henrim so cool. I’ll probably be doing something much more diy as I don’t have a metal lathe. Just tube + plug basically

No need! Many satin finishes explicitly say not to polish or buff make sure to post pics when the time comes