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You'd swap your lass for one? Stop messing about. A chicken doner mebbees.
I live on Fuldastraße. Best döner in the city: Imren Grill. Beef, not lamb.
But lol.
That made me laugh way too hard.
I was wondering, @wezv, would your methods allow any colouring of the neck? I mean, if I had a flamey or spotty neck, treating it like I would on a top - maybe using some ink to match it to the top, then finishing with wudtone or oil? The ink would dye it, but probably not saturate the wood, allowing the oils to get in, but I wonder if there are any obvious issues in the way.
Wetsanding doesn't really work with strong colours as you end up sanding the surface away. But I have pre-stained before wetsanding with tinted oil to get nice vintage tints.
Cant say for wudtone, or mixing it with other products because I have never used it like that.
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Let me know how you get on. I'm considering trying a slightly different approach on the next project, using a pretty maple neck, dark board and doing a matching burst on both the top of the guitar and the neck - I think it could look rather attractive, and "custom", but don't fancy the oil removing the colour, for example.
I have wudtone neck finish here somewhere, maybe I'll order some inks and do some experiments. Happy to report back if anyone is interested.
But test on scrap first
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8 months of daily use later, it isn't showing any sign of wear or distress, and doesn't pick up dirt.
I honestly wouldn't worry about warping - Tru Oil isn't an oil finish - it's some sort of varnish.
Dealing with the frets was a royal PITA!
I used the technique that Wez described with (IMHO) excellent results for finishing a body, but I wouldn't be confident of using it on a fretted neck: Sanding between the frets is fiddly in the extreme; sanding with the grain doesn't let you reach right up to the fret, and sanding across the grain rips up the neck (IME).
Allowing the TO to pool up against the frets and then scraping it off doesn't work well, because it doesn't cure properly where it has pooled, and you end up with a rubbery area right next to the fret that won't scrape neatly,
I could never build up a thick enough film between the frets to allow me to wet sand it without sanding through, either.
In the end, after much frustration, I used the 'coffee filter' method on the whole neck - get a pack of paper coffee filters and use one to wipe a drop of TO onto the surface, then, immediately use another clean, dry one and try to wipe off as much as possible - honestly try really hard to wipe it all off. Pay particular attention to clearing out the angle between the fret wire and the fingerboard. It will be very wasteful to start with, but you eventually get a feel for how little you need to put on. Work on 1 or 2 frets at a time, and buff the finish smooth before moving on. It feels like nothing is happening for ages, then the gloss starts to build up. I found that if I made a conscious effort to try and build a layer up that I got streaks and lines in the finish. I had to use the 'wipe it *all* off' approach to get a smooth, shiny finish - YMMV
You can do the rest of the neck the same way, but it won't need as many coats.
(If you do a search for 'coffee filter' on the ReRanch forum, you should get quite a few detailed explanations)
Just my experience - I'm sure that there are a whole range of workable answers, and if anyone has better suggestions about how to work around frets, then I'm all ears (at the moment, I would finish the fingerboard, at least, before fretting!).
My solution is similar to yours, a lot of rubbing rather than sanding... But I still wetsand the back to make it super slinky
Also, reading your comments it sounds like you where trying to build up a finish then wetsand(possibly with water) to get it level - like doing a lacquer finish.
That is not what I do. After one coat if oil I wetsand with the oil. No chance of sanding through because you are applying more at the same time. All the gunk gets buffed off each time leaving a super thin and sleek finish
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