Maude

Mediocre would be suitable. 😉

Fascination Street - The Cure

Do Nothing - The Specials

Speak My Language - The Cure

A Night Like This - The Cure

East Easy Rider - Julian Cope

Johnny Come Home - Fine Young Cannibals

I've got a little, plastic, three legged fold up thing. It's basically cheap tat but it works, it's useful and I haven't felt the need really to get something better. I've just looked and it's this D'addario one.

I love this song. Beth Ditto has a monster of a voice.

4wd electronic rodent demonstration! Count me in.

Wonderful Life - Black

Push The Button (snooze) - Sugababes

I used to really like using lots of compression as an effect. I didn't know what I was doing but I just turned the knobs until I got the biggest, punchiest sound I could.

As aluminium expands with heat more readily than steel do you think it will cause the fretlines to be felt more in hotter weather? Or is it probably not enough to be worried about? Just thinking out loud really. They do look lovely though.

You can wire a four wire (or five, makes no difference) humbucker in to give you bridge side single coil, both coils in series, both coils in parallel and neck side single coil with a four position rotary switch, or push/pull volume and tone controls. I did this on a Stingray copy.

Thanks Andy, time to do some test pieces. 🙂👍

Thanks folks. I'm going to do a couple of test pieces as I just need to get it done, and I don't want to be redoing the big piece if something doesn't work. I'm going to try just lacquering the bare wood first as quite often that will darken it in the same way that my white spirit test did. Some woods darken a lot, others barely at all, I'll see what happens. If that doesn't have a satisfactory result I try a sepia calligraphy ink and see how that goes. @Andyjr1515, thanks (as always) for the advice. If I were to slurry and buff, do you think the differing shades of wood would be an issue? Would the slurry of darker wood and Tru-oil stain the lighter areas? I'd only be doing the slurry to grain fill as the finish will be 2k lacquer whatever happens. I know the lacquer will work well with wood and be completely waterproof, so no risk in the bathroom. I don't know if you saw but this was calligraphy ink then lacquer on a Kay that I did, this finish is what I'm aiming for (not the colour though).

She's Not There - UK Subs (The Zombies are dead 😉)

Lazy Sunday Afternoon - Small Faces

That's an absolute belter!! Lovely. 😎👍

Get Off of My Cloud - Stones

From what I understand, as long as it is a drying oil (polymerising) then solvent based lacquer will be fine, once the oil is fully cured. I've never tried it though. This was my first plan as I have a few gallons of solvent based 2k acrylic polyurethane lacquer knocking around at home, as you do. 😁 What's the easiest, most foolproof oil I can use. There seemed to be a favourite on here but I can't remember what it was now. I'll have to do some more digging.

Ooh look, a Fodera. 😁 I'll just add, although I've said it many times before, I love walnut. 🙂👍

The reason I want to lacquer it is that it will end up with water being sat on it, being in a bathroom. I think any oil finish will end up with white marks where the water has sat. Or it will go sticky with the high humidity. These worries might be unjustified, I don't know. It's just very easy for me to give it a good few coats of automotive lacquer to make it completely waterproof. The more I look at it the more I think I should just bring the natural colour out with an oil that dries hard and then lacquer. I guess an oil will be similar to the pictures with white spirit on. I know who's done a lot of home oil finishing, calling @Andyjr1515. 😁

Attack of the double posts. 🙂👍