Westone Thunder1 refinish

Sarge

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








Cue the palm sander....




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

while these dried overnight I levelled/recrowned the frets.



Busy grain.


A few oil coats in..



Waterslide paper I printed off last year


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








Tru-Oil on maple neck makes for such a wonderful finish, smooth as you like.





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

Jaden

nice, I also love me a westone... had a Thunder 3 bak in the day, it weighed a ton and went through LOADS of 9v batts though !

Sarge

yeah they do that, unplug your jack when not in use saves em somewhat.

usedtobe

Another Westone fan, and Thunder owner, here. I like what you've done with that!

Sarge

Thanks man, my avatar is my T1A refinish in blue/teal a colour Westone should have used imo, Mats did it with the Skylark.

usedtobe

Ooooohhhhh, that's nice, too!

Sarge

Thanks!

Adam_MD

Very cool I love the colour

impmann

That's flipping gorgeous.
Excellent work sir.

Sarge

Oh you're too kind!

Sarge

I'm on the lookout for some of the original brass knobs if anyone has one lying around?.....

Deadman

Beautiful job. Well done.

Andyjr1515

Very nicely done indeed!

rlw

sneat

Sarge

Cheers!

hobbio

Mate, that's fucking beautiful!

If I had the cash and all that...

Sarge

When the green first went on I hated it, but it's a real grower, if I had the cash I would probably keep it...... until gas....

Modellista

Another Westone crying out for this treatment in Cash Converters Wallsend...

Sarge

Oh really? Thanks for the heads up @modellista how much are they asking? And is that on the high street?

Sarge

I fancy doing either purple or dark dark pink

Actually I have a couple to do just from the eBay listing for this, free advertising, woohoo!

Modellista

It's £189 and yes, on High Street East. It's on eBay as well if you want to check out photos, code w125048. Looks fairly decent. It's in the front window. Returning the favour, I think it was you that gave me the heads up on that Hohner that I bought and love...