Geek99

so, I have put cellulose primer on and then some more and the open grained nature of pawlonia is still showing through, I know that this means I didnt grain fill it enough. I'm going to let it dry thoroughly and then use the remainder of the grain filler in a thick mix to fill in the worst bits (it'll show up better on white primer than on wood) and fill in a few dings I didnt notice before. Then if I flat down the primer plus grain fills, it should be at least a bit flatter. I'm thoroughly ticked off with pawlownia.

@Bassmingo they are cheap on evilbay

final grain fill done, which filled in some scratches I had not previously noticed. Sanding done. Waiting for a nice windless day to paint primer on. I did a test stripe of a scrap of wood, neat cellulose, side by side with the primer plus cellulose. The latter looked better and coverge was noticeably better, although as @Gareth Hughes says, it is very white.I''m going to put two coats of primer on and see whats shines through.

@Bassmingo wading in here, but I do know that Mr G has a background in wood finishing and french polishing as well as a keen fettler and so I would be confident that if anyone can take a decent shot at it, it would be him.

Rub some shoe polish over it

Tort

Sunburst goes with everything, as does Tort

Local library can be surisingly useful worth seeing if they have online search and reservation stay away from the dark side, Luke ...

good, spit on those weedy top strings too, for good measure.

so what is stopping you?

gulp - that's a lot. Where do you keep these guitards then ? Down in the seller in chains where they belong ?

Ever seen a Mila movie from the 90s ?

Nor me. I must be weird ; I cheerfully liquidated a twelve string and an AE bass to afford the bits for my jazz build

Originally the handbook was for the wrong model, I pointed the error out to mr east himself

i own two and a bit. One vintage EST96A stingray clone. Its 10 years old so the yellow stain job is going brown. A bass doc precision relic an olyimpic white jazz under construction

One BC member I have met assures me that he owns 37 Precision basses

a piezo bridge with an East blend module? Mr East himself was very helpful

so I got impatient. Its pretty much sanded flat with all traces of transwhite gone. Its smoother and some of the deficiencies are fixed. I used the olympic white cellulose to repaint my scratched phone cover (nice finish, dried quickly) and a quick patch on the wood where the neck plate goes, to see how it covers grain, and how smooth it got. NOt seen it dried yet, will report

"Redundant" and "tortoiseshell" is an oxymoron; there is no such thing.

And tassles

Sunburst and Tort obviously ...there is no other colour allowed, it’s the law

Hidden piezo ?

I've rough sanded it and flashed some white spirit over it to see the flaws more clearly. I have got rid of some imperfections in the original state, but I have realised just how open-pored the paulownia is. There is only so much good I can do with sanding. Lesson learned. Sadly the idiot ebay seller of the primer didn't answer the phone, and did not respond to ebay messages and has sent the primer anyway, so I have to use it. I did ask if grey would work better but he didn't bother reading. I'm going to fine sand, and then grain fill as best I can with what I have left and then put cellulose primer on and flat it to try and even things out texture wise.