I’m impressed! - nice job. I’m building a strat knockoff right now and I’m aiming for a ‘Heritage cherry sunburst’ ala Gibson Les Paul or a fender ‘Siena sunburst’ using color tone dye. My plan is to start with a 400 grit body then dye black to emphasize/pop the wood grain. Then the black will be sanded back with ~ 320 grit and I’ll begin the dying process much like you did (with alcohol diluent for the dye) then I’ll seal with nitrocellulose sanding sealer & lacquer (probably 15-20 coats) from stewmac’s color tone spray cans. I’m aiming for a mirror finish by using plenty of fine sandpaper, steel wool, and Buffing compound.
It seems a veneer top and usually it bubbles if you sand it you may rip it off. A alcohol based stains are difficult to blend the colours it takes years and years of experience plus the best result if you have a white maple top with figuring flame or curly and the higher the grade the better outcome. So the wood, the tools , preparation and experience. But well done and it is hands on experience. 👍
Thanks so much, I haven't tried to take a prefinished guitar down to bare wood and refinish, but yeah I think i'd try paint thinner, acetone and a heat gun and start scraping, then I'd take heavy grit sand paper, and work my way down to dinner sand paper.
It looks really clean, I think it’s actually the best sunburst tuto I’ve seen yet!
Thank you so much!
I’m impressed! - nice job. I’m building a strat knockoff right now and I’m aiming for a ‘Heritage cherry sunburst’ ala Gibson Les Paul or a fender ‘Siena sunburst’ using color tone dye. My plan is to start with a 400 grit body then dye black to emphasize/pop the wood grain. Then the black will be sanded back with ~ 320 grit and I’ll begin the dying process much like you did (with alcohol diluent for the dye) then I’ll seal with nitrocellulose sanding sealer & lacquer (probably 15-20 coats) from stewmac’s color tone spray cans. I’m aiming for a mirror finish by using plenty of fine sandpaper, steel wool, and Buffing compound.
Nice, that sounds like a great plan! Thaks for the comment.
Awesome mate. Well done. Looks really good. Cheers for the video.
Thanks so much!
super nice job, looks amazing
Thank you so much! Thanks for watching, I had a blast doing it!
Well done. Like the color.
It seems a veneer top and usually it bubbles if you sand it you may rip it off. A alcohol based stains are difficult to blend the colours it takes years and years of experience plus the best result if you have a white maple top with figuring flame or curly and the higher the grade the better outcome. So the wood, the tools , preparation and experience. But well done and it is hands on experience. 👍
Thanks for the feedback, I had a lot of fun doing it and learned a lot. The water-based definitely seemed more forgiving.
Beautiful 👍
@@jeffrowlette thanks so much
That is one beautiful guitar, and i bet it sounds amazing. Any videos on removing a finish when you wanna redo it? Acetone? Or just sanding?
Thanks so much, I haven't tried to take a prefinished guitar down to bare wood and refinish, but yeah I think i'd try paint thinner, acetone and a heat gun and start scraping, then I'd take heavy grit sand paper, and work my way down to dinner sand paper.
@@neilmorrisonofficial awesome, thanks
Very cool. BTW, you've got a great speaking voice.. Where are you from?
@@johnjohnson6672 thanks so much really appreciate that. California native
If you do this with alcohol you will have to work way faster and blending would be harder because it dries so fast.
Thank you for the tips! That makes a lot of sense
That is not stain. You are dying the body not staining it.