Picking Colours

Last night we had a look on the Internet for wood stains to stain the bodies and necks of the guitars. We've both decided on blue as a main colour - all over for the Rick and just on the top for the LP which will have a black back. We'd rather stain the wood than spray it to allow some of the wood grain to show through, particularly on the LP that has a lovely flamed top.

We've chosen stains from Hannants - the colour range is great and they sell them at a shop around the corner. Hopefully we'll be able to pick them up today and start the staining next week. We've chosen the colours Toy Blue and Jet Black.


I've seen the type of effect I would like to recreate on the Rick kit - a lovely blue burst effect on the body, and a blue neck with the Rick style stained skunk stripe running up the back of the neck. I need to figure out how I can make that work though...



The Rick pictures above are of a Rickenbacker 360 rather than a 330 but show the overall effect we would like to achieve on the guitars.