So i am going to be finishing up my new CBG soon, this is the first one i have built in a long time, and there are a few things I wanted to do that I never had done before.
First thing, I did not want to rush. All my older builds were done all in t
Read more…Newby needs some help. I've done a couple of guitars with red oak necks & fretboards. I've stained the necks then poly coats. Have only stained the fretboards.
Now, I've got a neck almost complete. It's maple with a walnut fretboard. The frets a
Read more…So I'm just close to finish the guitar on the pic but have some challenges ahead. It has maple back, alder sides, spurce top and mahogany neck. The goal is to give it a solid dark brown color. I was thinking about wenge water based stain and water ba
Read more…I'm still too new and excited in this endeavor, so I haven't been able to solidify a "procedure" and standard for myself. This has probably been covered in depth before and if so, please point me in the right direction. I keep getting stuck on what
Read more…Does anyone have any experience using non-standard wood for fingerboards? For example, I know maple needs to be sealed... rosewood and ebony do not. My problem is when I start getting into woods that aren't "typically" used as fingerboards. Does an
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