timmyo

dont buy tubes - buy bottles, i either order good stuff in from axminster or use the cheap bottles from my local B&Q. One bottle should easily do a guitar - two at a push but if you are only doing the top, half a bottle should do and you will still have some left over for other jobs - since its in a bottle it will keep longer. Its hard to be sure because i dont know how your spalt will absorb it. You can spread it with something like an old credit card or just get some disposable gloves.. but keep it moving. It will all dry with a white haze and look horrible and bumpy but once you sand back you should have hard wood rather than soft spalt. You have the option of actually building up a few coats to get a thicker layer for a good base for any finish you use. It might be ok with one coat but chances are you will sand through at an edge and have to touch it up

and lastly - do it outside, preferably with a fan blowing the fumes away... otherwise you will be crying all day

Cheers Wez. I've found a 20g bottle online for about £3 delivered - every penny counts in my budget - I'm already pushing the £100 limit

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Tim

any suggestions for grades of paper to use to sand it back ?

dont buy tubes - buy bottles, i either order good stuff in from axminster or use the cheap bottles from my local B&Q. One bottle should easily do a guitar - two at a push but if you are only doing the top, half a bottle should do and you will still have some left over for other jobs - since its in a bottle it will keep longer. Its hard to be sure because i dont know how your spalt will absorb it. You can spread it with something like an old credit card or just get some disposable gloves.. but keep it moving. It will all dry with a white haze and look horrible and bumpy but once you sand back you should have hard wood rather than soft spalt. You have the option of actually building up a few coats to get a thicker layer for a good base for any finish you use. It might be ok with one coat but chances are you will sand through at an edge and have to touch it up

and lastly - do it outside, preferably with a fan blowing the fumes away... otherwise you will be crying all day

Cheers Wez. I've found a 20g bottle online for about £3 delivered - every penny counts in my budget - I'm already pushing the £100 limit

ta

Tim

Are there any guides to the application of the CA ? Do you smear it on then wait for it to go hard then sand it ? And roughly what amount will I need ? ie how many tubes of Wilkinson's own brand superglue do I need ?

Thanks for the info guys

Thanks

I'd highly advise filling the grain on both the mahogany & the spalt as well.

Is that for durability or for appearance ?

I've entered a just-for-fun "Build or mod a guitar for £100 max" competition with some folks on a UK guitar forum ( http://www.musicradar.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15212 ) and am looking for some pointers re finishing the body.

The body in question is mahogany with a spalted maple cap - and it's bare wood currently (see here : http://s122.photobucket.com/albums/o270/t1...PoundChallenge/ )

My opening gambit is that I'd prefer the guitar to be a simple oil finish, but I suspect that the spalted maple would not take this well ? Yay or nay ? In this instance I am not concerned at all with flatness or shininess of finish - simple sealed is absolutely fine (a combination of liking 'organic' feeling guitars and needing to do this in short bouts of spare time )

If anyone has any opinions at all I'd be obliged,

thanks,

Tim

p.s. - I'm blogging my progress here : http://100poundguitar.blogspot.com/

Thanks.

The body is actually not so bad weight-wise, and I've yet to do the comfort carves : http://picasaweb.google.com/timodonnell.uk/ProjectGuitar

but yeah the Rosewood will add some of that back and more

Hi there

Let's assume I'm building a Strat-shaped body from Walnut, and bolting on a rosewood neck and rosewood fingerboard and Wilko trem.

If you absolutely had to (and you do ) what would you guess at the tonal response of the finished guitar being ? (it's having body-mounted humbuckers x 2 btw)

ta

Tim

p.s. - wow - what a lot of info on this forum, great place