Tung Oil Over Stain Guitar. And on a koa body that's sad. Using oil to finish a stained guitar (crimson guitars guitar finishing oil). The top of the guitar is flamed maple, so i stained with a deep brown, sanded, then applied an amber.

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Do not over saturate the surface either, meaning the surface should be wet but. Im currently staining a maple top with crimson guitars water based cherry red stain. Tung oil will just keep the moisture and dirt out of the wood, it won't harden to a varnish like tru oil.

Tung oil finishes are usually applied to unfinished wood, but they can be used over oil based stains.

In this video, tanner starts with an unfinished neck from warmoth, and finishes it with tung oil over the course of several days. Especially when you spill it all over the guitar! Been all ok so far, just tends to smell for a short time. That's what we did and it worked pretty well. With waterlox you can mix the stain in with the waterlox and apply them at the same time. For that better finish the grain should be intentionally raised before staining or finishing. Should i just let teh focuser board go, or coat it over with the spar varnish? Min wax makes some stains like that.