Here's the box for my second L00. The first came out well, but was a little over-built for the body size. This one is maybe a little under-built, so I guess by the process of elimination the next one will be perfect, right? I tried my first burst. It was out of necessity as even though I sealed my ledges with shellac before binding I still wound up with CA stains along the endgrain on the lower bout that wouldn't sand out. The burst came out waaayyy better than I expected. I was expecting to have to sand it off and start over a few times, so of course I didn't keep notes on how I did it. Hopefully I can replicate it. I used Transtint dyes from woodcraft and mcfadden's thinned roughly in half sprayed through a Preval. To keep things easy I used all brown tones (Amber, Light Brown and Dark Brown). I sprayed the first coat of amber then added another few drops of amber dye and sprayed a second layer of burst. Then I added some more thinned lacquer to the amber and added the light brown dye. Spray, add more dye and repeat with the dark brown dye for about 6 coats in total. I then used a razor blade stuck into the end of a wooden dowel to scrape the bindings (thanks for the tip John Watkins) about an hour after spraying the last coat of burst. Pictures have 2 coats of clear (and lots of orange peel), more tomorrow (but hopefully less orange peel)...
Thanks for looking
BobK
