My newly stripped and oiled RG-520QS

[Kindred_Spirits]

I posted the pics in my other thread about the guitar, but here they are again in case people didn't catch it.

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[superhairycamel]

Sweet!!!!! that looks great man.
How do ou get the blotchy and then streaked patterns?
anyway, congratulations.

[darren wilson]

Wow... nice job! How did you strip it? Chemical, heat or just a lot of sanding? Most people that strip and oil their 520QS bodies usually end up losing the quilted sapele veneer.

superhairycamel: The "blotchy" and "streaked" patterns are the wood grain. The front of the guitar has a thin veneer of quilted sapele, which is a highly figured wood. The back is mahogany.

[lyconxero]

Wow, that wood is beautiful. I love blue, but i've gotta say that your guitar looks better with the new paint job. But what's with the area around the pickup selector? Looks unpainted for some reason.

[Powerslave214]

Pretty

How long did it take you to strip the finish?

[Kindred_Spirits]

I used an orbital sander on the entire thing, because I wanted to keep the sapele top, and people who used heat and chemical stripping lost the veneer. It took about 3 days to do. As for the one spot on the pickup selector, that was one spot that we went through, and im kind of dissapointed. But I wasnt going to strip the finish from that one spot. Thanks for the comments.

[Polaris20]

Excellent job! I think it looks better than the original.

[nuno]

Wow!!!

[fettouhi]

Really brings out the quilt . Good work dude!

Regards

André

[RCB]

Stain the spot where you sanded through with a darker colour. If you choose the right colour you should match the venner and that would make it harder to see. Other ways to fix that problem would be:

1) Add a 5 way switch cover (like the ones you see in the S series)

2) Add a pickguard. A custom wood pickguard may look very good on that guitar.

Ive always liked the brown RG520 much better than the blue one. Your guitar has a very similar look to the brown one now. Congrats

[superhairycamel]

and quilted or flamed woods, how is this done, is it just how the wood is or is it a seperate process?

[Kindred_Spirits]

No, the wood is naturally like that.

[Rotti]

You could probably stain that area by the selector switch to make it less noticebale. Guitar looks great anyway.

[Kindred_Spirits]

UPDATE!

I've since grown tired of the imperfections on the guitar, so I decided to make it "melted wood" a la Conklin Guitars:





So with a dremel, orbital sander, and tung oil, here's how it turned out:

[Andelusion]

That's AWESOME. Have you done the back too? I think you should clear coat it too.