what lacquer to use on oil paint?
Can I use water based lacquer? or oil based? can I use shellac? or shellac and lacquer over it?
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finishing with water based stain
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…how to make it sound brighter?
I bulit this witch with a cheap noname single coil pickup and as you can see on the pics it is not really well positioned. I don't know exactly why but its sound is very low witha lot of bass. You hardly can hear the high E. Once I tried it in bright
Read more…Building out of two boxes
Have you ever tried to build guitar or violin using two boxes? I have two small box that together could make a good body for a violin. What do you think about it? Do you have any examples?
Read more…cigar box violin
This is my first plan for a cigar box violin. I tried to fit the common violin sizes. The box size is some 230mm×130mm×30mm. What do you think? It will work? I need some advices...
