I love watching the staining videos. I know you did a lot of them but the truth is they are all one of a kind . The first never looks like the last or any in-between. Thanks Big D!🎸
I watched many of your video where you stain a guitar body, especially with gradient. They have been a point of reference on building some guitars from scratch with my hands.
Derek, watching your dye stain videos has inspired me to give it a go on a project I'm working on, but I've a question for you; how long do the Angelus alcohol-based dyes take to dry completely? I'm planning to try a burst on a maple neck, and I've given them a trial on some scrap maple, but even after 5 days or so I'm still getting colour coming out when I wipe the wood with some kitchen roll.
This looks absolutely amazing - is this steel wool you're using at 6.27 to dull the finish down? Would you recommend this over sanding at this stage & why if so? Apologies if this is covered elsewhere.
Hi, beautiful guitar!; I want to know if the Angelous leather stain is the standard acrylic one or the one for suede leather, they are very different colors. Lorenzo from Italy
Super job and great work in blending those colours to get the best you could with the book match issue you talked about. Shame about the binding work which looks like it was not done with the same level of care and attention that you apply to your own work - but that's why you have a following! Cheers for sharing, Paul in the UK.
My Angelus dye bled onto the binding as well... I thought it was because I put boiled linseed oil on top, (which really ruined the color) but it seems as if it can bleed without the oil.
Awesome job! It’s so cool to see the figuring on the maple top stand out like that. I’m interested to know where the customer got the guitar body from.
The binding issue. It could be the composition of the binding plastic reacting with the ink. I've seen binging "melting" because someone used alcohol to clean it. Angelus inks aren't water based right? Anyways those colors looks stunning. 👍
Beautiful! But I can't help but feel like the end product isn't what the customer wanted if they wanted the example picture. Although beautiful the guitar was more of a sunburst instead of the more uniform soft brown and yellow of the example picture. The body color should be continued much closer to the edges and maybe a bit more orange/brown? I hope they loved the result because I sure do. I'm just nitpickin and curious what the client thinks 😅
Hi ive seen your vids and i love how smooth and vlean is your work theres any chances to contact you via email to ask you a strat neck theres no luthiers in my city soo im looking for a good one online you got email??
Hi Derek, thank you for sharing all these techniques and tips with us. Your videos have been great. I emailed you a few days ago @bigdguitars. I had a question on why my top has a strange ring on the outside edge. Let me know if you were able to get my pics if you have time to look. Either way thank you and looking forward to more videos!