demonx Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 I've just cleared this mahogany neck, I've enhanced the grain by rubbing ebony grain filler all over the neck and sanding back before clear. This is a complete different style of finishing to what I'm used to and I'm just experimenting at the moment, I was curious what other styles of grain enhancement yoiu guys have been doing? ie: POST PICS and explain how you did it...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob123 Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 I don't have pictures, nor do I own the guitar any more, but a cool way to "enhance" grain without doing the usual "fill it with something dark then sand back" routine", is to burnish the wood before sealing. I used rosewood saw dust to do a maple neck, took forever, but looked incredible. I will be doing it again soon when I wrap up my parker project, and Ill post pictures of it when I do it then. Basically the process involves taking an oily wood (I imagine cocobolo would be amazing for this), and "rubbing it in" really hard. Probably would kick butt on swamp ash or other large grain patteren woods. These are the only images I could find online to kinda represent what I am talking about. Left side is unburnished, right side is burnished Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremyp Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 op, what kind of clear did you use on that and how did you finish it? that looks really nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verhoevenc Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 It gave your mahogany an almost "tiger myrtle" look to it. Very cool. I'll definitely be trying this at some point. That's a nice, distinct look. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonx Posted March 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 op, what kind of clear did you use on that and how did you finish it? that looks really nice! I only use 2k products. This is my favorite clear, PPG D800. It'll have a different code in the USA, over here it's about $480.00 a can plus hardner plus thinners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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