Members BrewBuck72 Posted December 22, 2010 Members Share Posted December 22, 2010 This is my first attempt at finishing and assembling a guitar. The finish process seemed like it took forever and it is still not close to a factory finish but I like the results. I'm still dialing in the setup but so far ... The body is an Ash double cut tele hawk from Tomahawk Custom Guitars (you should check them out, Brian is great to work with). The neck is an allparts SMO strat neck (needs some fretwork but overall a very comfortable neck). The pickups are GFS bigmouth which I think I am going to like (although the jury is still out). Everything else is miscellaneous parts from GFS and Guitar Parts Resource. On to the pictures... Here is the naked body... Here it is with a couple of coats of aniline dye... And here is the final product (finished with blue dyed grain filler and blue/green tinted polyurathane)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JRicoC Posted December 22, 2010 Members Share Posted December 22, 2010 I don't know what aniline dye is, but that finished turned out really well ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ExiledCrow Posted December 22, 2010 Members Share Posted December 22, 2010 Cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cratz2 Posted December 22, 2010 Members Share Posted December 22, 2010 Very cool. Any tips for using the dye? I might dye and poly my next project if I don't just go with a stain and oil finish again. HNGD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members rga22001 Posted December 22, 2010 Members Share Posted December 22, 2010 Nice!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fireproof777 Posted December 22, 2010 Members Share Posted December 22, 2010 Nice. Looks good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members axegrinder Posted December 22, 2010 Members Share Posted December 22, 2010 That looks hella cool!! I'm really curious how your finish will behave long term. I did a guitar in analine dye and the damn thing faded. I never could figure out if it was the nature of the dye or the water-based Crystalac clear coat. Mine started out looking like a gorgeous aquamarine swimming pool and in the matter of a couple years it turned to more of a faded blue jeans color. Because you used a tinted coat over the green AND poly coat at that, I expect you'll have better lasting (hopefully forever) results. Nice job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BrewBuck72 Posted December 22, 2010 Author Members Share Posted December 22, 2010 Thanks for all the kind words. cratz2 - I probably read 100 web sites with 100 different opinions on how to use the dye and finish the guitar. In the end, I did the following 1. Sand with 220 grit, wet to raise the grain, sand again, raise grain again, sand a third time.2. Mixed up the green Aniline dye (waterbased) with some water and applied two coats (results in picture 1)3. Mixed up the blue Analine dye with some timbermate grain filler and water and applied 3 coats of grain filler, sanding back with 220 grit between coats4. Mixed up a blue/green dye combination and added it to some minwax polycrylic (again water based) in a 90/10 polycrylic/dye ratio5. Applied 12 thin coats of the dyed polycrylic with a foam brush.6. Got a spray can of polycrylic and used the whole thing in several light coats as the final clear coat. After everything was dry, I started sanding with 800 grit then onto micro mesh up to 2800 grit. Finally, some nu-finish scratch remover and then a guitar wax. I'm sure there are probably better ways of doing it but this seemed to work for me. Axegrinder, I will keep an eye on the finish and report back if I see some fading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mslmg Posted December 22, 2010 Members Share Posted December 22, 2010 Looks great! The double cut and the Tele Hawk are nice designs. Did you buy direct from Tomahawk or through his ebay site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chuck1016 Posted December 22, 2010 Members Share Posted December 22, 2010 Well done! that's beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sk8centilli Posted December 22, 2010 Members Share Posted December 22, 2010 woo hoo! That looks great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BrewBuck72 Posted December 22, 2010 Author Members Share Posted December 22, 2010 Looks great! The double cut and the Tele Hawk are nice designs. Did you buy direct from Tomahawk or through his ebay site? I bought it directly from Brian at Tomahawk and was very happy with the transaction. Good price, good communication, quick turnaround, and most importantly, a nice guitar body to work with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brian Krashpad Posted December 22, 2010 Members Share Posted December 22, 2010 Congrats! (o)(o) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hubert Stumblin Posted December 22, 2010 Members Share Posted December 22, 2010 Very nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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