Stripping and staining walnut body - advice please

[BigRedX]

If you don’t like the body shape as well as the colour how about getting a new body made to fit the rest of the hardware?

[Grooverjr]

8 hours ago, BigRedX said:

If you don’t like the body shape as well as the colour how about getting a new body made to fit the rest of the hardware?

The body shape is fine. It sits nicely on the lap to mostly balance the neck and the cutaway is just in the right place so I have no complaints there. It's purely a colour complaint.

[fretmeister]

I’ve been doing a bit of staining myself.

used a Spirit stain and currently doing the Tru-Oil finish.

 

It was a normal unfinished slab body and I did the arm and belly carves. I purposely didn’t use a grain filler after sanding to 320 grit as I wanted a bit of a reclaimed barn wood look.

 

2 coats of stain, then gently sanded back to smooth / remove nibbling and to reduce the stain thickness on some edges just for some variation. 
 

Then Tru-Oil. Currently at 4 coats of tru oil.

 

Tomorrow I’ll be getting the 0000 wire wool out to very gently smooth it and to see if I need any more oil coats. If not then I’ll hang it for 2 weeks to let the oil cure properly and to rock hard, then polish it. Or I’ll do another couple of coats.

[Norris]

4 hours ago, Grooverjr said:

The body shape is fine. It sits nicely on the lap to mostly balance the neck and the cutaway is just in the right place so I have no complaints there. It's purely a colour complaint.

Vinyl wrap?