News from Walkings Rocks Farm

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Ben (my son) and I worked on his guitar much of the weekend. We've been building a 3/4 scale guitar for him to play. It's from a kit. We had taped off all of the bits we didn't want stained so we could get the neck just the right color of ebony. However, the wood of the kit didn't take to the stain and the stain ripped right through the adhesive tape and made this viscous scum.

This happened a week ago.

So, we've been doing clean up and repair work on the thing. Alcohol, acetone and something called goo gone was able to clean up the scum but portions of the neck and body were stained.

We're going to repair the neck by essentially taking advantage of the mistake and lacquer it. I'm still researching it since the neck of a guitar gets a lot of work and I don't want the lacquer to come off in his hands. Irving Sloane used varnish.

The shoulder of the guitar and part of the upper back are permanently stained. But I figured out how to veneer over it. Hopefully, it will look like some intentional marquetry.

The back is more problematic. We have to do some experiments to determine if the stain we were going to use will mask the black stain underneath.

Painter's tape next time. Not masking tape.

I had some sapele wood veneer that would have looked sweet in the role. It's a reddish wood, something like a tame bloodwood. But the veneer is just too stiff. I tried various things to soften it: soaking it in glycerin, alcohol, etc. But though I could cut it after soaking, like the Republicans: It Would. Not. Bend.

I have some other veneers that are, like the Democrats, more pliable.
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