thats a really old beat to **** jackson rhoads v that i bought almost 3 years ago for 25 bucks. i had posted a few questions about work on it 2 summers ago when i was working on it, and then i got really busy and had to leave it. anyways so i pulled it back out and finished the staining and am starting to clearcoat it. right now the photo you see it is drying from the grain filler i used to level out the flamed maple. that maple is just a paper thin veneer btw, the actual guitar is plywood underneath
the staining was pretty simple, took me a while to figure out how to get it to not bleed though. I shot a really thin coat of clear nitro on it and then sanded with 400 grit, then drew the design on and cut thin grooves along the lines with an exacto knife. didnt bleed at all after i get the top sanded level ill start clearcoating hte whole thing. i like