As some of you will probably have noticed I do love me Westones! and the Thunders are a fun and easy refinish, so here's one I picked up with lots of interesting ash grain patterning, plus some very deep finger/plectrum wear, an ideal candidate for some fun'n'colouring
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Cue the palm sander....
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I mixed some black dye with the natural grainfiller, forgot to take pics but you all know the score, right?
then the Emerald green stain
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while these dried overnight I levelled/recrowned the frets.
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Busy grain.
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A few oil coats in..
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Waterslide paper I printed off last year
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and on she goes! I cut the paper big and trimmed to the edge of the headstock so I've only the bottom edge to deal with
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Tru-Oil on maple neck makes for such a wonderful finish, smooth as you like.
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And there we have it, a semi sheen finish with only a tiny hint of grain texturing, changed the stock black MMK45 pickups for a cream set, I wasn't sure on the colour at first, but it's growing on me
Comments
The young do not know enough to be prudent, therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
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Excellent work sir.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61134/sarge/p1
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Mate, that's fucking beautiful!
If I had the cash and all that...
electric proddy probe machine
My trading feedback thread
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61134/sarge/p1
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61134/sarge/p1
Actually I have a couple to do just from the eBay listing for this, free advertising, woohoo!
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61134/sarge/p1