Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

[CROSS_guitars]

Final coats of Tru-oil

[Shadoweclipse13]

Love it! Gorgeous wood, but I love the tuner style. Very retro.

[epizootics]

Yeay!
How come all the cool stuff (both guitars and music!) seems to come out of Melbourne these days?
I really like the final color you got, and the veins come out beautifully.

If I may chime in with a secret tip for finishing necks (and bodies in a natural finish for that concern), you can speed up the process greatly by starting off with shellac before applying your tru-oil. Shellac dries a lot faster, granted your coats are very thin, and if you flatten it out with steel wool every other coat, you'll get a mirror finish within a day or two. You still want tru-oil on top to make the guitar alcohol-resistant.

[CROSS_guitars]

Love it! Gorgeous wood, but I love the tuner style. Very retro.

Thanks. I have since replaced them with Kluson tuners. The open geared ones were too course and stiff.

[CROSS_guitars]

Yeay!
How come all the cool stuff (both guitars and music!) seems to come out of Melbourne these days?
I really like the final color you got, and the veins come out beautifully.

If I may chime in with a secret tip for finishing necks (and bodies in a natural finish for that concern), you can speed up the process greatly by starting off with shellac before applying your tru-oil. Shellac dries a lot faster, granted your coats are very thin, and if you flatten it out with steel wool every other coat, you'll get a mirror finish within a day or two. You still want tru-oil on top to make the guitar alcohol-resistant.

I have given it a cut and polish since that pic and it has come up quite nice.
I think I'll just stick to vinyl sealer and nitro from now on.
The mistake I made with this one was staining the wood. I kept rubbing it back and sanding through the stain.
I have had better results before on bare wood which hasn't been stained because it's not a big issue if you sand through.

[DrQuasar]

That headstock is gorgeous.

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[Shadoweclipse13]

Surf green isn't my thing very much, but Cross, that thing is classy as fuck from head to toe!!

[Rgand]

I agree, "Classy" is the best description of it. Beautiful guitar.

[CROSS_guitars]

Surf green isn't my thing very much, but Cross, that thing is classy as fuck from head to toe!!

I have to admit, the surf green is a bit too much for me too.

[solfege]

Dude! That is just 100% excellent work. And gorgeous.

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Melbourne members.

If you wanna try out one of my guitars. My CrossRite is available at Echo Tone on High Street in Thornbury.

https://echotone.com.au/collections/ele ... naustralia