I have a Swamp Ash body and Maple Neck coming from Warmoth and would like a little help with my upcoming staining and finishing project on the bass. I want to make the wood look "zebralike" as I call it, meaning that I'd like to get rid of the brown color in the wood and have it stained in a silver-white and black color. I want to really bring out the dark stripes of the Ash as well, and really highlight the grains of the wood. The whole bass will be done in this "zebra" scheme, so the maple neck will have to be stained as well.
Do you have any recommendations on how I can accomplish this?
I would also love input on how to finish it off after staining, this is my first ground-up bass and I don't know the nicer products out there. I want a glossy (oily?) finish, I would love a step by step list of what you would personally do after recieving the bass.
Here are some pictures of the bass I'm modeling mine after:
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It's Nino_Brown's from this forum. I don't think his bass actually looks silver in person, it's a camera thing I imagine, but I want to have my bass stained to look like that picture. With a silver tint to the whole thing, I think it's very powerful looking, and with the high quality wood I ordered it should be a huge step up from the basses I've been playing lately.
I'm very glad that pro luthiers are willing to share their advice, that's very cool. In the past this project would just be one big trial and error episode.
Thanks a million,
Mike Schaefer
http://www.soulshadow.com
Do you have any recommendations on how I can accomplish this?
I would also love input on how to finish it off after staining, this is my first ground-up bass and I don't know the nicer products out there. I want a glossy (oily?) finish, I would love a step by step list of what you would personally do after recieving the bass.
Here are some pictures of the bass I'm modeling mine after:
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It's Nino_Brown's from this forum. I don't think his bass actually looks silver in person, it's a camera thing I imagine, but I want to have my bass stained to look like that picture. With a silver tint to the whole thing, I think it's very powerful looking, and with the high quality wood I ordered it should be a huge step up from the basses I've been playing lately.
I'm very glad that pro luthiers are willing to share their advice, that's very cool. In the past this project would just be one big trial and error episode.
Thanks a million,
Mike Schaefer
http://www.soulshadow.com
