What's on your workbench right now?
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Thanks Mark!
Two coats of Tried and True danish oil and three coats of their varnish oil. In the house we’ve extensively been using tung oil on the cypress and I love the amber hue but for the guitar I wanted it a little less tinted.
It’s a soft wood and I know I could’ve used polyurethane to give it more protection but I’m not a rock star, and I wanted it to feel like wood. It has scratched already and will continue for sure. If in years to come it needs some tlc I know I can take it apart, sand over and refinish. It doesn’t match the super glossy neck but it doesn’t bother me.
In the future I’d be interested in building up more layers of the varnish like I’ve seen done in YouTube videos for tru-oil, or something like a French polish with shellac but not there yet.
Glad you like it,
Jerzy
Two coats of Tried and True danish oil and three coats of their varnish oil. In the house we’ve extensively been using tung oil on the cypress and I love the amber hue but for the guitar I wanted it a little less tinted.
It’s a soft wood and I know I could’ve used polyurethane to give it more protection but I’m not a rock star, and I wanted it to feel like wood. It has scratched already and will continue for sure. If in years to come it needs some tlc I know I can take it apart, sand over and refinish. It doesn’t match the super glossy neck but it doesn’t bother me.
In the future I’d be interested in building up more layers of the varnish like I’ve seen done in YouTube videos for tru-oil, or something like a French polish with shellac but not there yet.
Glad you like it,
Jerzy
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Dude, that is one lovely guitar. I don't usually like natural finishes but there is something instantly appealing to the piece you chose, wit the grain angling downward with a visible bit of curling on the upper horn. The contrast in textures is actually one of the fun bits you can play with when building a guitar, and definitely part of the appeal here.
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What a stunning piece of wood! Marvelous job on the guitar (and doorway). The figuring on the upper horn, is the stuff you can get lost in.
Doug
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Natural finishes are not usually my thing, but that is some beautiful wood put to a beautiful use! I love the way the grain kind of condenses and flows around into the top horn, really special.
Watching the corners turn corners
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BALLS DECATHLON. Pretty straight-up clone of the old (~1980) Electro Harmonix Attack Decay tape reverse simulator. Power supply has been modified to run off 18VDC instead of wall voltages, but that's about it. All analog in all of its weirdness.
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Love this perf build! I built one of these during the pandemic and was blown away by it. It's snuck into a song or two that I wrote at the time. So weird.Dr Tony Balls wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:42 amBALLS DECATHLON. Pretty straight-up clone of the old (~1980) Electro Harmonix Attack Decay tape reverse simulator. Power supply has been modified to run off 18VDC instead of wall voltages, but that's about it. All analog in all of its weirdness.
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My Marauder II kit left the workbench a while ago...
and Mr. @caseyjamesprestwood turned it into this beauty Again!
and Mr. @caseyjamesprestwood turned it into this beauty Again!
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First coat of tung oil on the Huon Pine Jagbyrd. Deliberately taking my time with this. Will build up a few coats so it's a nice durable finish. Smells incredibly wonderful.
IMG20240125160347 by Rosie Brennan, on Flickr
IMG20240125160347 by Rosie Brennan, on Flickr
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Cheap bloody pickguard doesn’t fit
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I've discovered that Mustangs are where any semblance of even being close to standardized falls apart. LOL
What kind of body is that?
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Yeah, this one was supposedly MIJ dimensions. Body is MG69
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So, in looking stuff up the MG65 and the MG69 and MG65 have slightly different pickguard shapes.sal paradise wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 9:16 amYeah, this one was supposedly MIJ dimensions. Body is MG69