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Used hide glue to attach neck to body - here it is clamped up
Stained it black.
...then used some grain filler coloured with the same black dye, rubbed it in and sanded it off.
I know the white one is called 'Dwight' because it's 'Da white' one.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
So I've used a combination of etchant, sanding and brasso to create some ware.
...but I can't see any products listed from them currently. Maybe they've had a cease and desist because of that open book headstock....?
Black as night, black as coal
I want to see the sun, blotted out from the sky
I want to see it painted, painted, painted, painted black
So my experimental technique will be:
1. sanded to 1000 grit
2. dyed black
3. filled with black dyed grain filler then sanded back
4. painted with Lamp Black oil paint
5. tru-oil to nearly-gloss.
I've done 1, 2 & 3 so far.
I'm considering doing a tru-oil slurry sanding in between steps 3 and 4 to increase smoothness - as long as the oil paint goes on OK on top of that...
This morning it seems nice and smooth. I'll flat it back a bit tonight with maybe some 2000 grit.
Then it's unknown territory - brushing on Lamp Black oil paint ready for tru oil over the top. Apparently oil paint and tru oil get on with each other - I guess I'll find out soon...
http://imgur.com/gallery/uMtUDN5
The paint is thick, and the brush marks are VERY evident.
And of course it will be next weekend before it's dry enough to do anything with. Best case scenario would be it dries nice and hard, I sand out the brush marks and get straight on to the tru oil, but I worry I won't get it flat. Might have to sand it all the way back and think again - possibly thin the paint right down so brush marks are less evident.
The colour is good though. There seem to be two flavours of black oil paint: Ivory Black, which is ever so slightly brownish and Lamp Black which, to quote Father Ted, is very very very very dark blue.
If I could get that colour, with a try oil nearly-but-not-quite gloss finish I will be happy, but it's a long way off yet!