In case you didn't see it, search mineral spirits on here. there's a good thread about using it first to pop the figuring in the wood.
It takes a while to harden, which is a pain for someone as patient as me...
Amber shellac is also great to bring out the grain and add nice color to light color wood like maple.
I use leather dyes cut with denatured alcohol between probably 1 to 10% for red and yellow tints that aren't to be floated in lacquers.
If you have glue spots just use a cabinet scraper to clean that area up and reapply stain. Sanding the one area will leave you wishing you hadn't once you get that far along.. for the most part.
Great usage of tools, dooder! Keep this up and you'll be making solid les paul look sort of likes in a jiffy.
I made the most of the sunshine today, and avoided making a new mess of dust in my shop by moving my sanding operation out onto the patio. Spent 40 minutes sanding out the glue spots on two head cabs, and re-stained the target. MUCH better. Will start applying Tru Oil tomorrow.
It's going to rain in a couple days. Do I have to worry about the varnish getting cloudy?
Table-top maple head cabs finished! Came out really nicely. Still refining my technique on dovetails, obviously. I need to allow the end-grain tails to show proud a bit so the sander hits them; you can see where they didn't get sanded and didn't take the stain.
Took five coats of Tru Oil, 0000 steel wool between first three and second two coats. Really nice technique. Easy and relatively fast.
Now I just need to build some amps to put in these cabs!
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Yup. Every time I head out there, wife goes, "watch your fingers." No argument.
Biggest problem: my tools have two places to live, in my home office, and now in the shop, and they're never in the right place at the right time. I'm sure you can feel me, yo.
I build and repair tube amps. http://amps.monkeymatic.com
