I finally found the color I wanted. This was the most extensive part of this project. Mixing colors was a entirely new area for me. I know blue and red make purple. Different amounts still make shades that look pink, purple and sometimes move to brown. Finally red and black make the red I was thinking of. On this piece of wood really looks great. When the paint was wet you can see how it will look once the laquer etc is sprayed on. That is for next post.
Must fill the grain of swamp ash. Kinda easier to do that before you dye and laquer the wood. But wood is forgiving. We stripped the old and resanding. Love to sand.
This quarter sawed Maple is georgeous. You can see the flame really well. The finish really pops. The feel of the neck is what I was after. It is slim and a good fit for me. You can see the headstock took a lot of work and came oit nicely. I put a decal on it. Not gonna sell this! Not crazy this is too much effort to sell. Has been so much fun. I am still thinking about the many many things that I have learned.
With needing to fill the grain and thus removing the laquer, I am choosing to remove the dye as well. Not happy with the color choice. We mixed it correctly, it is Merlot, and it is not what I wanted. So two wrongs can make a right. This really is the only big mistake that has been made during this build. One that I thought we could not retrieve. But wood is very forgiving.
We did not fill the grain on the swamp ash, so we are going back a bit by stripping the laquer and dye. That means I get another crack at the color. A couple of shots with the cream perloid pickgaurd. The color is Merlot (red and black dye). It looks ok, but not quite what I want. I am thinking of a more redish maroon. Mixing dye is not easy task without research into the dusty area of color matching. That is a whole other media.
