Weekend Prgress

[whoofnagle]

Well, I thought I would post a few pics of some work that I got done over the weekend.

First, I finished sanding my mahogany/maple tele. I took it to a friend who builds guitars and asked him how it looked. He said "better than last time, but keep sanding!!" Well by the end of the day Friday he was satisfied .

Here is a link to the front view.

Next I did was mix up my first batches of dye (both black & blue) - taking Drak's advice. I have seen way too many cool blue guitars as of late .

Here are a few shots of some scrap wood at various stages

Black/Sand back

First coat of blue

A few more coats of blue

The bottom of the two pices has a few coats of shellac as well. (Yes - the shellac looks bad - I did not do much initial sanding - I was looking for color only)

My plan for this guitar is to put 2-3 coats of shellac on the sides and back. Then I will apply the dye to the top. Finally, I will put multiple coats of shellac over the whole body, hang to dry, sand smooth, add another coat of shellac, and polish.

I also began work on a new Tele. This will be a mahogany body with a redwood top. As you can see I have routed out a good bit of the body as well as a channel for the neck pup.

Red top

Will be an all natural finish.

Bill

[asm]

looks good, did you get that redwood top from gallery hardwoods?

to me it looks like you need to rub in the black a little more. to give it some more depth when you sand down, just an idea though.