
Last seen: Jun 1, 2026
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Welcome Peter, I’m loving your work sir.
Sanded it back, applied some stains and finished with many coats of Tru Oil.
The project is ongoing. More pictures to follow.
My friend wanted to apply some waterslide transfers so that was incorporated before applying several more coats of Tru Oil to seal them in.
Of course sanding in between coats is essential for that super nice finish.
We decided to finish this guitar in Tru Oil, it’s a gun stock oil that can produce a fantastic lustre. Many coats were applied.
As this is a Barncaster, I decided to put some old brass screws into the top boards as a feature. I also played around with some dyes and we settled o...
I did some essential marking out and then had some fun with coloured epoxy resin.
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Here is another.
Turned it all into this left handed T-type Barncaster.
I used a length of pine and some pallet boards to make a body blank.
Excellent! Nothing wrong with this idea, I’ve made electric guitar bodies out of old pallet wood, I’ll put some pictures up.
Excellent work and a lot of lessons learned. I will definitely listen to your warnings and hope it sinks in to my brain.
Thanks Russ, a radius jig will be a little more tricky and require a little more thought. ? ?
A friend sent me some fretboard size pieces of walnut so I had to make this jig. 0B234C7B-FDF5-4503-AAAD-A5E8598C8E29.jpeg
Bearings to keep the fret saw straight. 59AC8376-906E-49AB-B32D-673787FD9D82.jpeg