Help fixing these???

[asnutter]

I finally went out to my shop yesterday and found this p bass body with checks and cracks in it...(-5 to -10 degrees over the last week or so)

I was hoping to finish this with tru oil, but am unsure of how to "fix" this checking...

Any suggestions would be appreciated!!!

 

[asnutter]

here's another...

 

[Bryan316]

Damn.

Forget it. That wood is completely compromised. You've got really expensive firewood, there. The cracks are only going to grow with time. Filling or gluing cannot save it now.

 

[Greenman]

The wood is drying out.(checking) Fill it and seal it and it might not get any worse.

Good luck.

 

[tjclem]

I have an Alder piece like that I keep it around just to piss me off. Pretty sick eh?

 

[asnutter]

although i can appreciate tjclem's suggestion...
i am going to fill it with some lightly stained filler or perhaps some epoxy with same color sawdust...
I figure i'll finish it for the practice and then maybe smash it on stage...(just kidding)
perhaps I could use it next fall when the mountainee'rs bonfire season starts back up in morgantown, wv...
thoughts???

 

[wilser]

supah gloo

 

[eleonn]

The problem here I guess is that at this point you dont if the wood body is already stop drying. If it doesn't it will keep checking and getting worst.

 

[Ray Holt]

Doesn't look so bad to me. Try to fill 'em up and seal them! If you don't mind seeing them, superglue would work to fill them (it would still look like a crack) then finish it to seal it.

 

[asnutter]

Thanks for the suggestions...
I kind of want to finish this bass more or less as a trial and error experiment, if you will...
I'm thinking that I will fill the cracks, tru oil the bass, and then shoot some poly over the outside...
What the heck; it's worth a shot!!!

 

[borden]

in my idea, maybe you should forget about the oil and just fill/finish with clear epoxy...

just like an epoxied fingerboard, use a buffer to make it smooth and sparkely...

i don't have any suggestion on epoxy to use but it would be a cool idea to me.

you'd then be able to see the cracks in it and it would look like old barn wood or something like that.... ok it might not be what you're looking for but that could give it sort of a vintage/abused look, wich is coooooool hehehe

just my opinion!

 

[pilotjones]

Thanks for the suggestions...
I kind of want to finish this bass more or less as a trial and error experiment, if you will...
I'm thinking that I will fill the cracks, tru oil the bass, and then shoot some poly over the outside...
What the heck; it's worth a shot!!!

If you do this, might try filling the cracks almost all the way with CA or whatever, and then do the truoil method where you sand in the first coats. This way, the top of the cracks would fill with a truoil/sawdust mixture, and might be pretty invisible.

 

[Greenman]

Just call the cracks "engineered mojo".

 

[Bryan316]

If you hit a hobby shop, they should have glue syringes. Basically needles with the tips flat and unsharpened. Mix up the epoxy, pour it in the syringe, and shoot it as deep into the cracks as the needle reaches to guarantee the glue gets in there.

After that, a few prayers might save it.

 

[asnutter]

This weekend I finished the CA injections...
Let them dry overnight...
Filled them with grain filler, and have sanded back to 220 grit...
Plan on re-staining, and then beginning the tru oil endeavour...
I wish that I would have been able to check the posts over the weekend...
I would have gone with pilot's suggestion!!!
I think we need to focus on greenman's "engineered mojo" coupled with the praying that Bryan316 suggests...
Then...
By the end of summer, we shall see if I can use this for the big WVU-Pitt bonfire!!!