! ! ! ! ! ! !sanding my bass (urgent help required)! ! ! ! !

yeh i wouldn't have thought of it either, except i had them both out on the bench, with all the electronics out, and i could see very clearly in the Ash body how far oil had soaked down. The bottom of the cavity showed the natural ash, with no stain at all. I didn't realise until then how "yellowed" the visible wood on my bass has become since I bought it!!
 
saxonbass said:
You are one dedicated guy, funkassassin!

I've no doubt you'll end up doing a good job! Just send us the finished pics!
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Quoting meself again!

I'm going on about "finished" pics... but you have oiled it already! Very light wood... I'd still like to see more pics though! You can hate me for saying this... but I reckon it would look even better with black hardware (maybe that could be your next Christmas present)
 
yea id like black hardware could be a possibilty..please dont tempt me!! im still not happy with the finish.. iv oiled it and waxed it now..
 
up close it looks a bit scratchy..sum small scratches where i havent sanded it properly... other than that im really happy considerin it was solid black
 
funkassassin said:
up close it looks a bit scratchy..sum small scratches where i havent sanded it properly... other than that im really happy considerin it was solid black
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Can't see any scratch marks on the picture and you're probably the only one who will recognize them. The bass looks great, mate.

Clean wood might look absolutely great before you coat it with "whatever". After coating you'll see the "dings" if you haven't done it properly. The trick is to go down to sand-paper grade "1000", even if you're happy with "600". Always sand in the wood grain direction!!!

Remember that some woods have their optical grain in the opposite direction of the natural grain (flambed maple as an example)
/Pat
 

VERY NICE! As suggested above, Just work your way up to a high gritt of sandpaper. On my thumb I went up to 600 and finished with 0000 steel wool and some tung oil to smooth everything out... From there on out I use a linseed oil mixture.
 
Good job Jon! :D
Don't worry about the scratches, it looks good mate. Nobody will look that close to see them, and they will remind you about the good job you did :-)
 
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