dwrockdoctor

Hi all, I've just gotten started in building electric guitars. I have acquired a nice 20 year old honduran mahogany neck blank, rings like a bell when you tap it but it has a slight back bow that measures a bit under 1/16" inch from end to end of the 800mm length blank. There is absolutely no twist in the wood, just the bow. What is the best way to proceed, can I just build as is? I plan on using a dual action rod which should help alleviate any problems once the neck is done but do I need the neck as flat as possible for routing the truss rod slot and glueing the fretboard on? Cheers guys!

Thanks for the reply Scott. Would an amber tinted nitro lacquer work? That's the easiest one I can find available in Australia when I check google. I thought green over red would make brown but maybe that's just when mixing colours and not tinting over the top, do tints work different when it comes to putting colour tints over existing stains? As it stands, I think the small amount of clear I have removed underneath where the trem goes is just the top coat. Definitely not down to just the stained wood at this point as any small experiments with regular stain just wipe off immediately (as you would expect with if a poly coat or undercoat still remains as it appears it does). This era PRS used a polyester base coat with an acrylic urethane top coat, would a tinted nitro aerosol apply okay over either of these coats? (depending on which coat i've gone down to already in my little test area).

Hi all! New member here. I have a PRS CE24 guitar that has developed some clouding in the clear coat around the edges and I am looking to take back the clear coat enough to get rid of this. So far I have used judicious use of paint stripper in a section under where the trem sits to knock back some of the clear so I can try a few things without going full gung ho and regretting any decisions before going ahead with any final plans. The guitar currently has a factory black cherry stain over a flame maple top. I was wondering if it's possible to use a transtint clear coat to change the colour shade to more of a tortoise shell brown? The idea is to use minwax wipe on poly with transtint added in, what kind of colour of transtint would I need to use to go from the current dark cherry in the picture below to something more like the attached picture of a guitar in tortoise shell brown? This: To this: