Thanks tcsned! If only you saw the pages of doodles and rejects. It's hard to come up with an original design that hasn't been done in some form, fits the history of the instruments I love and still looks ok!
ac4468 wrote:The walnut is about 1/16th and the maple is about 3/32. Top and back .23 and core is about 7/8. That gives me a nice thin 1 5/8" body. At that thickness, using maple as the core instead of Purple Heart and shortening the guitar by an inch it seems to be reducing the weight by a huge chunk over the Wolf. Truth be told I didn't chose the veneer thickness. I trying to find ways to reduce the build time by using stock I can find that suits the build rather than the other way around. Buying whole flitches of unbacked veneer saves me a day.
ac4468 wrote:That was something that plagued me forever! I prefer to use Waterlox but this time I'm using rattlecan Watco lacquer. I used shellac to fill the grain but don;t want a completely mirror finish. I went into it knowing I'd have to strip it and redo it if it wasn't good enough. So far so good. Sprays nicely, dries quickly and sands well so far. I just can't see spending so much on some of the other finishes until I have a spray setup. Either way I'll give it at least a few weeks to cure before rubbing it out.Thanks! I'm curious because it looks great and I'm in the process of refinishing a one off/Wolf that I originally used Waterlox on and did not like the final results. So, I sanded it down to bare wood again and have been using Formby's low gloss finish with great results that I'm very pleased with. Just takes about 15 to 20 days of coats and drying