Hi all
I've decided to have a bash at building my own Partscaster (essentially a replica of my 1995 Strat), starting with an unfinished ash body from Guitarbuild.co.uk.
I'd like to dye the body using Angelus leather dyes and have tested blue, black and purple on the scrap provided by GB before deciding on the blue. The intention (unless anyone tells me otherwise) is to finish the body with Osmo PolyX - which is what I'm lead to believe Wudtone is made from. I assume this will fill the grain to some extent - assuming the guff about Wudtone doing this was true?
My questions really are around the prep work. The body is already sanded to 320, so do I need to further prep before applying the dye? Once the dye is on do I go over it with 0000 steel wool before applying the PolyX or is that not really required? The PolyX seems happy to go over wood sanded at 320/400.
This guy rates it, and produced a shootout of the different methods of applying it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Rp65DAarEThanks in advance
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http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61134/sarge/p1
You can colour the poly ox using oil paint pigment, that was windsor and Newton primary red or cardinal red you can also add about 30-50% of oil based varnish for doing necks or things where you want a thin hard finish.
Once its dry and to get it to the point where you can really buff it you are talking 4-6 weeks I have used the burnishing with paper and also Meguire scratch x or a fine rubbing compound from Halfords. This was before it go the final smooth out with Megs
If the wood is already sanded to 320 I might run a similar paper over to rough it a bit further and wipe it down before starting but from my experience it works better on a less sanded finish. I used to religiously go through the grades when I first started but once you go past 400 it seems to adhere less. You can also do an undercoat as I did with this in white to keep the colour strong or get closer to the effect of a solid colour that does not show the wood grain through which this was a test for really.
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