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Yeah, ok.
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Thanks Maiden. Should I sand before the next coats or wait till the grain fills up? Dave
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Today was the second consecutive day that I sprayed two wet coats of ReRanch sanding sealer on my project guitar. So that's four wet coats. I think I may have used about 1/2 the can. The mahogany, that I grain filled, looks like it is sealed well. The maple top still shows some grain. I didn't fill the maple. Note that I haven't sanded the sealer yet. Should I still be seeing grain in the maple at this point? Will it start to fill up when I sand the sealer and re-apply some more sanding sealer? Thanks. Dave
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Maiden, thanks for mentioning that. I covered them because I wasn't sure if I should or not. I'll pull the tape today for the next coat of sanding sealer. Dave
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That was easy. I just put the same dye on the back! The mahogany went green.
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Today I sprayed a couple of light coats of sanding sealer on the body. This was after the grain filler, sanding back to 400 and wiping on one more coat of dye. The sanding sealer really added some depth. http://www.downinfrontht.com
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It's beautiful. Is it neck heavy?
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It already looks great!
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Rock Rules - Frank's Soloist With A Twist
CudBucket replied to rhoads56's topic in In Progress and Finished Work
If you were anywhere in the states, I'd have signed up immediately. $1150 US dollars is a bargain I couldn't afford to pass up. -
Jay, I'm just filling the mahogany. The two wash coats were applied so that I could highlight the figure in the wood. You dye, then sand back the dye from the surface. The dye that settle in the grain remains there. Then when you apply your final color coat of dye, the figure is darker than usual.
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Just sold my Mark IV and ordered a Peavey JSX head and Genz Benz G-Flex cabinet.
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No more pics yet but I started grain filling the body today. I'll probably give it another coat tomorrow.
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Thanks everyone. Maiden, I did debate the issue with staining the mahogany or not. Then I really liked the way the mahogany looked when the turquoise was wet so I went with it.
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Hey man. I did a coat of black dye, sanded back, then a coat of turquoise and sanded back, then I diluted the turquoise dye by 50% and wiped on the the final color coat. I hope to grain fill and maybe start the Sanding Sealer coats this weekend. I've added a "Finish Stage" page on my site. Here's a pic of the body as it looks now. The I need to level my frets and then oil and wax the neck. But I need to do a decal logo first. Here's my fretboard as it looks now. There are more pics on the "Slotting the Fretboard" page.
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Hey Rob, good to see you showed up here. It's Dave F. from the Carvin site. BTW, did you use any grain filler? Sanding sealer? Dave
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What's going with the body joint? Looks like a ton of filler or something in there.
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Just a tip: You can dampen the edges (or face) of figured maple to reduce or eliminate tear out on a jointer or planer.
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I'm laminating it too so it should be fine. Maybe I'll get some Wenge for the laminate pieces. Dave
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Devon, I've read the same and have also discussed it years ago with woodworkers in terms of furniture building. I believe the consensus was "even though it's called soft maple, it's still plenty hard, just not quite as hard as sugar maple". The two pieces I got are about 1" thick and over 50" long. They're also about 5 or 6" wide. They both have beautiful figure and I paid about $40 for the pair, shipped to my house. I'm intending to use walnut and cherry as the laminates for it. I'll post some pics when I get it. Dave
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I just bought to long pieces of soft curly maple. While not quite as hard as "hard" or sugar maple, it's still very hard. Much harder and more stable than say, poplar. I was planning on using it as a laminate in a neck through piece. Anyone here ever use "soft" maple? Any thoughts about it? Thanks. Dave
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Guitar Of The Month For May
CudBucket replied to ProjectGuitar.com's topic in Guitar Of The Month entry/poll archive
These are all gorgeous instruments. So hard to decide. When my guitar is finished I'm not entering it until I'm sure the only competitors are a couple of banjos and a harmonica. -
hyunsu, those are beautiful. What kind of finish do you put on your guitars? Dave
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Funny, sounds like all the IT managers I have ever worked with () Rest assured I was only referring to my CAD skills.
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Nice! I've been a developer since 1988 and now am an IT Manager and can't do s$%t with CAD. Gotta get off my a$$.
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That is if you consider fret-spacing, bridge alignment, tuner placement and all the associated routing to be nice finishing.