Picked up some blocks of ash from Home Depot today. They're actually little 6" table legs, but they suit my purposes just fine. Since the tele body I'm getting is ash, I figured I'd get some pieces to test my finishing process on, test the colours, techniques etc that I'd be using to do the body itself. There are at least three tecniques I need to test to see how they come out, and i have an extra piece just cuz.
This way, I hopefully won't screw up the body when it eventually gets here.
What I'm planning is a sort of aquamarine blue burst. No black, just light blue to really dark blue. Sorta like the gradation from shallow caribbean seas to deep, dark, open water. On the back it's going to be a sort of reddish brownish orangeish colour. And a masked natural binding too.
Going to try to do it all using tru oil and pigments.
Right now I am filling the pores on test piece #1 with walnut coloured grain filler, because I wanted to accent it without going all the way to the extreme contrast of black grainfiller.
Then I'm going to mix up a couple of small pots of blue and orange in different strengths mixed with danish oil. It's the closest thing I have to tru oil at the moment and I can't just go run out and get tru oil because apparently it's very hard to get around here and only a couple of canadian websites sell it. I'm using linseed oil based oil paints. It's just pigment and linseed oil as the carrier, so it'll mix well with the danish oil or tru oil since they are both linseed oil based as well. It might lengthen the drying time slightly as the danish oil/tru oil gradually polymerizes the linseed oil in the paints. Discovered this technique from the guy at six gun guitars who posted a vid about on ye olde youtube.
Anyway.
Progress pics to follow later today hopefully.
This way, I hopefully won't screw up the body when it eventually gets here.
What I'm planning is a sort of aquamarine blue burst. No black, just light blue to really dark blue. Sorta like the gradation from shallow caribbean seas to deep, dark, open water. On the back it's going to be a sort of reddish brownish orangeish colour. And a masked natural binding too.
Going to try to do it all using tru oil and pigments.
Right now I am filling the pores on test piece #1 with walnut coloured grain filler, because I wanted to accent it without going all the way to the extreme contrast of black grainfiller.
Then I'm going to mix up a couple of small pots of blue and orange in different strengths mixed with danish oil. It's the closest thing I have to tru oil at the moment and I can't just go run out and get tru oil because apparently it's very hard to get around here and only a couple of canadian websites sell it. I'm using linseed oil based oil paints. It's just pigment and linseed oil as the carrier, so it'll mix well with the danish oil or tru oil since they are both linseed oil based as well. It might lengthen the drying time slightly as the danish oil/tru oil gradually polymerizes the linseed oil in the paints. Discovered this technique from the guy at six gun guitars who posted a vid about on ye olde youtube.
Anyway.
Progress pics to follow later today hopefully.