Beautiful detail Steve!
The Wee Lassie taking shape....
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
The decorative band is Morse Code and spells "St Augustine" on the port side and "lighthouse" on the starboard.
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
I see a lock coming....
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
I haven’t been on this forum for awhile and have forgotten how to post pictures.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
Looking great, Skip!
Lookin good Skip!
8hrs of scraping complete and I realize my eye sight is horrible... smudges and fingerprints come free
Very Nice, Rose #1! What brown dye type/color name did you use? Looks good and dark but not blackish
"If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards." - Joe Pass
Thank you sir. I used trans tint. I hand stained it first with a combo of Lemon drop, Honey amber and walnut brown. Then I tinted Shellac with the same colors starting with lemon yellow and adding honey amber and eventually adding walnut brown till I got the desired color/finish in the burst.... no real formula just test spray each coat on a board before applying. I actually used a Prevail? Preval? sprayer for this took some time to get it to spray how i wanted (thinned the shellac a bit more each time) I believe i got it down to a .7 lbs cut on the shellac before it was coming out correctly.
Looking very good. I, too, suffer from old eyes. Something to consider next time (if there is one). 1/8" Pinstriping tape, the shiny blue stuff. It's flexible and can be stretched around the curves. Not cheap but worth it, you can find it at auto finish supply places. You still get some color creep under the tape in places and have to touch up with the scraper, but it may save you some time. Your burst looks terrific!
yes sir i guess after dozens of years I am set in my ways of doing things hahaha but age is creeping in on me so i may have to start taping off the binding in future builds
Old eyes or just bad eyes. Until a few years agoI had one eye that could literally read writing on the sides of needles. Now not so much. For all the old eyes this sits on or by my bench. The little one is always within reach. Both have magnifiers built in and I got them on sale at Hobby Lobby. A really good sale! Hope this helps someone.
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Creativity is just doing something wierd and finding out others like it.
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