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Jazz bass body finish ?


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Took delivery of this guitarbuild Jazz body yesterday with a maple flame top & swamp ash. Really undecided on a finish except I’ll be using Osmo oil but not very sure how to go about sealing the swamp ash or if I need too. I’m after a natural finish really. The body’s a 60’s Jazz hence the hole emitted for the bridge wire.

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Honestly, I refinished an Xotic recently with Tru-Oil and its looks amazing. It's great stuff and is a combination of an oil and a varnish so dries nice and hard.

 

The process is well documented on the build diary here: 

I can definitely recommend it if you are after a natural finish.

 

Lovely bit of timber by the way! 

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Cheers for the feedback gents I’ll have a read up on your projects later on. The body’s even got the router hump near the neck pocket which I’ve never heard of before but it seems that was the thing away back then. 

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Nice body, it will look stunning when finished 🙂

 

There are a lot of options so I'm finding it tricky to decide but on a Telecaster style guitar I'm in the process of putting together I'm going with Danish Oil wiped on which seems like it might be one of the simpler finishes to do and leaves a satin finish.

 

R.

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Well, being a tight Fifer I made two control plates up using 1.5 aluminium. One a standard bell plate & the other a Tele like version…I’ll probably go with the bell plate I think, dunno, not sure 🤔 

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Body’s dry now this Osmo oil is good stuff…expensive tho 23 odd quid for a 750 tin. I’ve got plenty left so if anybody fancied some give me a shout….anyway here’s the control covers. Away to give body another coat….by the way it’s 1101 oil I used

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7 hours ago, Dov65 said:

Body’s dry now this Osmo oil is good stuff…expensive tho 23 odd quid for a 750 tin. I’ve got plenty left so if anybody fancied some give me a shout….anyway here’s the control covers. Away to give body another coat….by the way it’s 1101 oil I used

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I do like that finish. I may get some if I decide to strip a body of it's colour in the future.

 

Good work!!

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