Hey, before I start, please be gentle, as this is my first project guitar!
Basically I had an squier strat affinity series (2002 I think) that I stripped the black lacquer/colour/plastic off (slowly, with a knife) and sanded down.
The wood I think is alder, I really like the look of it, it has an odd look unfinished... and since it's been sat on my workdesk, while I've been waiting on pickups/parts, it's acquired a cool yellowed/aged look.
Anyway.
Do I need to finish this guitar body? or can I just leave it as it is?
Are there differences in tone/volume/sustain that will be noticable?
And if, as I expect, it would be in my best interest to finish, how would I go about applying nitro to it? is it simple?
Will it make it shiny? (I know that sounds stupid)
Oh, also, I've cut some cavities in the body for a pickup on/off control plate and a killswitch,
if I were to nitro, should I do these bits along with the rest?
Thanks a lot, I have tons of questions so I'm pretty sure I'll be doing this very frequently from now on
Kind regards, Pat x