Great job! I plan on doing my first guitar stain in the next couple of weeks, thanks to your video, I should get it done right!

Great work man. I don't make guitars, but I do enjoy wood working and finishing techniques. Great instruction. Thank you

Awesome Job! Can't wait to see the rest!

Thanks for uploading this, I really enjoy your video's. I'm just now spraying Laquer on a spalted maple top strat that I stained a cherry red and yellow sunburst after watching one of your video's you did of a burl sunburst! Thanks again!

very very nice...really like the cap on this guitar, looks great

beautiful work. I love that kind of burst

I love that you don't pick common top "patterns" for your tops. it's like you take the bastard cuts that no one else takes and you make them look gorgeous. keep doing what you're doing.

Wow! Awesome work bro! 🎸🎸👍

A lot of work there. Best lookingTelecaster I've seen & i made one. Be nice to see & hear it played.

this is freaking awesome dude!

You are the master love it !

Awesome job

stunning. I am also interested in multi-hue burst tints like Jungle, Dragonfire and Copperhead. For me, it's fascinating because of the water color aspect to it. It's almost like a tangible type of Adjustment layers in photoshop. Plus, hand-rubbing any finish on a guitar is the way it ought to be. Would have loved to have seen a final shot of that thing with cured tru-oil.

I jus did a "chocolate burst" on an acoustic. it turned our fantastic. Thanks to Big D'

looks fiery.

Didn’t know you had a small arm coming out of your back playing with the stool. Lol. Like the video.

great job. after that final application of dye, did you apply the Tru-Oil directly onto the dye or did you do a final sanding before the oil?

I want this one, too.

nice video but it would have been really helpful ( to me at least) to see the body after it was completely finished with your topcoat. I was very curious to see how it turned it when it was all completed.

@cocktailsfortwo5660

9 жыл бұрын

I agree with this comment - 16+ minutes, and we don't se the result? Also, a bit of constructive criticism: use the "sped up" effect a bit more often. The first 8+ minutes (half of the video!) is spent on you applying the first coat of brown to the guitar - that could really be 'sped up' quite a lot. That said, though, good video I wish my Tele looked this good!

@vt750dc

5 жыл бұрын

@@cocktailsfortwo5660 well, it's probably because this video is for people ACTUALLY finishing guitars, not looking for entertainment. Sure, it serves both purposes, but I think education is the more important of the two. I'd rather see everything he's doing.

I kind of want to ditto that question. Do you use the leather dyes, then a sealer, then Tru Oil ? Or do you skip the sealer all together ?

Pop pop!! :)

Epic.

Beautiful, but I would love to have seen it with the oil finish.

A "spit coat" of shellac on the end grain helps eliminate uneven stain absorption. For what it is worth.

great video, well explained, genuinely useful as a learning tool, lovely final result. thankyou. how is this a cherry burst??? i'm sorry but it just isn't. i don't understand. thanks though, great vid

interesting to see that he now does edges with the wipe out method not the circular style

This is beautiful work. But if you then wanted to finish the body with a clear sprayed lacquer, what cleaning liquid (or method) would you use to wipe the body clear of grease and fingerprints prior to spraying? If you used white spirit/methylated spirit would this not dilute and/or break up the dye finish? I've just stained a flamed Maple guitar body using water-based Rit Dye in Indigo. The final coat went on a week back so is fully dry. The finish and colour is lovely, and something I'm keen to not affect at all. However, a tiny splash of water landed on the body (~1mm round), I wiped it off quickly, but it still affected the finish in that tiny spot. My concern now is that I need to remove all the grease and fingerprints before spraying on the lacquer, but if I use any form of liquid this will ruin the finish. Anyone got any ideas as to what's the best approach in these circumstances? [I did look into using Tru Oil (and similar products) and tried them on a test piece of wood I'd also dyed to check on the likely finish, and this gave everything a noticeable and wholly undesirable yellowed hue.]

Hi Derek, I've been with you for the last six months or so, and have been working through your "back catalogue". You must've answered this question numerous times, but I can't find it so... You said in this vid that you rarely see a piece of wood with both burl and flame or figure. I appreciate this is a rookie question (but I am a rookie!). Can you define the differences between flame, figure, burl, spalting, grain etc. I really appreciate and enjoy your work, and am always happy when a new one lands in my inbox!! I do however get a little confused about these terms. Thanks, Phil

@leeswenson4350

4 жыл бұрын

Phil, think of 'Figure' as the appearance of the wood based on the grain of the wood and the way / direction the wood is cut. Maple is a highly figured wood, and the types of figure you find in maple include flame, burl, spalting, birdseye, ribbon, and bear claw. These are terms to describe the look of the figure found in a particular side-cut of maple wood. Hope this helps.

I’m curious if the powder dye has trouble mixing with the transtint concentrate. Planning on doing a sunburst with a powder and concentrate (it’s all I have) but wasn’t sure If it makes a noticeable different. Does it matter once it’s dissolved?

Hi, I know this is from 7 years ago but I'm asking you because that scheme is exactly what I want to do. I block sanded the front and back and got it flat as a pancake. Sanded up to 1000 grit paper so it's really smooth. You mentioned 400 I think as your final grit. Question: do you think it will accept more or less stain being sanded up to 1000 grit? Thank you so much for taking the time to create edit and post your very helpful videos!

@bigdguitars

3 жыл бұрын

1000 grit polishes the wood. I don’t go past 320.

@mboyer68

3 жыл бұрын

@@bigdguitars thank you! A friend of mine who I called about this job told me that if it's too smooth then the paint will run easily. I have to rough up my gorgeous guitar body! No! Can I stain it and do a black burst? Thank you very much for responding!!

I have a start one that is very this the body I mean is not thick. I want to add a nice top to this guitar how would I do that any vids?

is that some sort of flame maple hybrid?

what are you sanding with (orbital sander) what kind? thanks

Hi i want to do this but where can i buy the dye?? ( i live in europe) do you have a exact name of brand?? Thanks

Does it have to be water based or can any type of stain be used?

looks great, but way to much brown in the middle to be referenced as LP kinda finish i think.

Sir can i use dye ink printer for my tele?

10 min in.............THE HAND haha. it creeped me out because i saw the stool moving, saw the hand, but didnt see the body............lol

@wombat6

5 жыл бұрын

I'm rewatching some of his old videos now and I just noticed that, haha !

I’ve watched a few vids now and you seem to use significantly more brown in your stained finishes than other makers I’ve seen, including the big companies. Is there a reason for this?

@bigdguitars

4 жыл бұрын

Gets the wood to pop!!

Do you ever use alcohol with these stains?

@cbfedge5593

6 жыл бұрын

cfhmachado no

Maybe it’s just the lighting in the shop, but after all that, to me, it just looks brown. Kind of a waste of such a pretty body to make it just look brown. Still cool looking.

You are better than this.... if I don't see a custom shape from you soon I'm going to cry lol

@bigdguitars

7 жыл бұрын

+Bobby Bob this vid is a few years old. But you are right I need some custom shapes

10:00 Keep your kids away when you do these activities for their own sake! Anyway nice job ;-)

ha this is jast round hand sander :) sorry