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Incredible patience, I just toss on a few coats of Tru oil and call it a day :ugh:
 

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I can see a few spots where the stain leaked over into the end grain. I guess I should have scraped it clean then re-taped and put clear just over the stain portion first, then blend in the sides with clear. Lessons learned for next time. Probably will do the same style of finish on my friends build. And yes, it's a total PITA doing all this prep work and still finding flaws....
 

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Mini update before completion:

20 coats of clear finish. Not sure if I'm going to add satin to the neck yet or not. Will see how I like it once sanded/buffed out. Left some of the Wenge slightly porous, although I did use grain filler. To the left is the neck blank for my friends build.
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Shielding paint and wet sanding. A bit to go still.
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Rough sketching out for the next build, a multi-scale neck through V. I bought an angled bridge a while back, going to be single slanted bridge pickup(Instrumental) and likely 26.5-28" scale, 27 frets, cuz why not. Still playing with bridge position and upper access cutout. Will be simple satin black, no fancy woods.
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Another teaser after wet sanding multiple times and finally buffing. I don't have a pro buffer, so have been using the SM ones for a drill but they seem to always scratch. I modified them with some micro fiber which gave much better results. Wasn't happy with the first result so I went back and wet sanded it again starting with 800 - 1000 - 1500 - 2000. Much better but I cut through in two small spots. 20 coats probably isn't enough, ugh.
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Close up. It ain't perfect, and still a couple voids that show up as white from polishing compound. All in all, pretty happy with the top though.
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Bridge installed, pickups mocked up.
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Back side isn't as nice, I didn't wet sand it nearly as much as the top.
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Neck feels good, normally I don't like gloss on it but it really brings out the streaks in the rosewood.
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This is looking seeexxxyyy!!! That gloss really did liven up that top!
 

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Went with BriteTone again, plus their sanding sealer/grain filler. Probably marginally better than the last guitar gloss attempt since I did more wet sanding, although I may just go back to satin or do an oil finish for the next bunch. It's a LOT of work and I'm still not able to get it perfect. Using epoxy then spray on satin poly so far has been the most consistent so far.
 

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Finally found some time to do all those last 5 minute jobs.... Had to fix one wiring issue, but it sounds and plays way better than I expected! The Instrumental pickups are a perfect fit in this axe and absolutely love them. I'm using a push/pull pot for coil splitting (kinda cool, not sure how much I'll use it but takes up no more real estate). Using a lighter gauge strings for the Evertune but still within the tension range for their standard saddles. Did a few passes of action/intonation, it's pretty much spot on and am able to get super low action as a result of getting all the frets really level with each other.

I need to do some more cleanup/touch ups on the finish then will do proper pictures/NGD, but here it is. Overall super happy with it.
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Magnets make for a really easy access, although finding that the wood will bow slightly over time making the fit not as great as when I sanded it initially. I hate screws, but they do work better.
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Finalizing the nut and string height. I left some room to cut the slots deeper once I get the bridge totally dialed in.
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Build looks sick my dude! When you do the NGD post maybe post up some clips of how she sounds! But anyways great job and looking forward to the next one!
 

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That's the plan, trying to get a video setup to show some play through's as well.
 

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Ash or Padauk for body wings? I've never worked with Padauk before. The piece of burl on the bottom will be the top. Most likely same color scheme as the previous guitar. Want to keep this one as clean as possible.

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Ash or Padauk for body wings? I've never worked with Padauk before. The piece of burl on the bottom will be the top. Most likely same color scheme as the previous guitar. Want to keep this one as clean as possible.

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i hope you like orange dust getting into everything and everywhere if you use the padauk lol
 
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That orange padauk dust settles on everything, but really nice to work with.
 

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By "clean" I meant the build, not the shop space! I have a good dust collection to take care of most of shavings.
 

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I made another neck blank almost identical to my buddies (#9) for the V. I used some leftover bits as initially was just going to be all scrap wood. Blank isn't wide enough for the headstock without adding on a wing so dug through my scrap pile and will use some roasted maple with a scarf instead to get the compound angle needed for a 26.5"-28" multiscale. Everything will be painted black so woods won't really matter.

Still truing things up but pretty close. The pencil line was to be the original nut location, but now have some extra length to work with.
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Probably posted this before, but a simple jig mated to a miter gauge, with the band saw table angled to get the right compound cut. Went with 12 degree scarf, and really shallow angle for the nut. Took some trial and error. Parallel fret will be roughly on the 4th fret to match the angle of the Hipshot bridge I bought a while back (26 degrees).
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