PRS clone
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 5:38 am
This is the only pic I have of any build part I haven't taken any pic's of the body/neck shaping, gluing etc that I did (was to busy actually "doing" it to worry about photo's 
) so its just final stages stuff here...its the maple body and the maple neck
the players .... wood stain gel, water, rags and shellac for later
various mixes of colour ....
so went dark purple base, then sanded almost right back to just pop the grain a little.Then a number of attempts at different shades of purple that ultimately ended up being sanded off (didn't like the results)
Then did a layer of basically pink, a darker purple centre then a reddish/purple over the whole lot...next was a purple/yellow blend over the whole thing and finally a yellow (with a touch of blue, red and red food colouring, which made the yellow more vibrant) over the whole guitar....the back is basically the same as the last coat on the top
The cool thing with waterbased stains is it makes it quite easy to blend the various layers for burst effects into each other because once it gets wet they start to mix again....I haven't done a really prominent burst on this because I wanted it just to appear slightly dark in the centre (which was all that easy to do initially...but I got there)
tru oil, linseed oil for wet sanding
Did about 6 coats of tru oil then wet sanded with linseed oil (boiled) and 1200 W/D paper...then one last coat of tru oil...now it needs to sit for a couple of days before buffing to gloss
mmmmm flaming....which hasn't shown up to well in this pic but is awesome
I have glued the neck in but also put 3 screws inside the P/up cavity just to be sure......the amount of wood I had for gluing didn't seem long enough hence screws as well
Back of the neck is stained and then just shellac'd at this point....just gonna run with that finish for now to see if I like it once its strung up. Scale length is 24 3/4
Will post more and better pic's once its all dry etc :thumbup:
) so its just final stages stuff here...its the maple body and the maple neck
the players .... wood stain gel, water, rags and shellac for later
various mixes of colour ....
so went dark purple base, then sanded almost right back to just pop the grain a little.Then a number of attempts at different shades of purple that ultimately ended up being sanded off (didn't like the results)
Then did a layer of basically pink, a darker purple centre then a reddish/purple over the whole lot...next was a purple/yellow blend over the whole thing and finally a yellow (with a touch of blue, red and red food colouring, which made the yellow more vibrant) over the whole guitar....the back is basically the same as the last coat on the top
The cool thing with waterbased stains is it makes it quite easy to blend the various layers for burst effects into each other because once it gets wet they start to mix again....I haven't done a really prominent burst on this because I wanted it just to appear slightly dark in the centre (which was all that easy to do initially...but I got there)
tru oil, linseed oil for wet sanding
Did about 6 coats of tru oil then wet sanded with linseed oil (boiled) and 1200 W/D paper...then one last coat of tru oil...now it needs to sit for a couple of days before buffing to gloss
mmmmm flaming....which hasn't shown up to well in this pic but is awesome
I have glued the neck in but also put 3 screws inside the P/up cavity just to be sure......the amount of wood I had for gluing didn't seem long enough hence screws as well
Back of the neck is stained and then just shellac'd at this point....just gonna run with that finish for now to see if I like it once its strung up. Scale length is 24 3/4
Will post more and better pic's once its all dry etc :thumbup:
