@tv101 saved it. Rasped a contour shape and sanded. Looks good now. Not much of a big deal as I thought it would.

@scurvypete I do use car paints but I’ve used nitro too. I’m still unsure of exactly what poly products to use on guitars. Have you used poly? If so, can you suggest anything? The bass turned out wel...

@scurvypete Where in the world do you reside Pete? I’m in the UK and buy most of my FX paints from here. Here you go, be careful when you apply it. Good luck with the bass. 👍

@boo Where do you source your paint from? I'm trying to find some chameleon paint to do a bass myself. Cheers Pete

New one from these technicians. 🤘😜🤘🎸

If you treat it right it will stay purple. I've built a thinline Tele with a purpleheart top and neck a good few years ago and it's still a beautiful purple colour. I sprayed the body with 2k polyuret...

@jozefbehr Thank you!

Welcome to this community ....

I thought that purple turns into brown after a good while? Don't know if that is true or not. Can you explain ? cause I am also interested in using purpleheart, but not if it turns brown 🙂

Also, purpleheart is cheaper and easier to get. And it's purple.........

Attachment : image.jpg Ebony is just so nice looking. My favorite however is purpleheart for fretboards more so than rosewood.

@clinton Nice share the image when completed.

Tried a waterbased laquer finish over stain on the top of my 2nd build. Followed the instructions and let it cure for almost five weeks before finish sanding and polishing. I used 7 layers of laquer i...

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Ah good advice, thank you. In the past I have used nitro on alder wood without a sealing coat so this is new to me as I haven't worked with mahogany in this context.

@clinton - that looks BAD - you've done well to save it. That's what I like so much about guitar building - every build seems to throw up an unexpected opportunity to learn something new - aka fix a...

Naturally and predictably, things haven't quite gone to plan. The piece of Ash that I was used for the back didn't work out quite how I'd hoped. Though I only noticed that *after* I'd glued in place...

@tv101 Haha! I think you have just predicted the next few weeks!

Ahhh, that old first step on the slippery slope. Before you know it, your Dining Room table has been re-purposed as a workbench, there are bits of wood lying just about everywhere, waiting "to come in...

@clinton Yikes! Luckily it is fixable , but I feel your initial frustration. I've been there too often 🙂