Building a guitar.

I wouldn't stain or dye walnut or quilted maple. For durability and to bring the beauty of these woods out, I would hand rub an BLO mix in then a wipe on gloss poly.

Dave

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what if the maple figuring isn't as prevalent as i would like it? could i add a gunstock oil to the body before adding the poly just to give it a little richer color? what is BLO mix?

-dave.

Boiled Linseed Oil and Turpentine - Forget the gunstock oil. You can test the maple fiiguring by wiping on the Turpentine first.

Dave

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If you want the figure of the quilted maple to be exaggerated, then first dye with black (or a dark brown) and then lightly sand it. Then dye with a lighter brown, oil, followed by shellac.

Ken Muldrew snipped-for-privacy@ucalgazry.ca (remove all letters after y in the alphabet)

Not for a nice guitar like that you wouldn't. Poly is something of a sacrilege among luthiers. Sorta like latex on cherry. Custom crafted electric guitars are generally stained and shot with nitrocellulose lacquer.

Oh, in that case, just twist up a rag between your hands, well-soaked in a nice dark/black stain, and roll it across your figured maple to get "tiger striping".

er (don't do that.)

That's the good point. There was a 16 year old in the adult ed. class with his father building a telecaster body from a solid block of cherry. They did their research, and laquer is the proper finish.