Ha, it is almost a year since the last update. Well, I have not been too active on the solo music career. I have mostly noodled around, trying different things on synths and guitars, trying to figure out what to do next.
However, as the summer is approaching, I started building the Hosco SG I bought as a kit last year. Since the winters in Finland are very cold and I have no indoor place that is ventilated well enough to deal with the fumes from the stains and oils, I have to do majority of the building outdoors when it is warm enough. During last winter, I shaped the headstock, drilled the tuner holes (they were too small for the tuners that came with the kit) and sanded the body and neck down to 320 grit.
I thought that I would stain the guitar cherry red in the fashion of Gibsons. A few weeks ago I got some cherry stain from local supermarket, and started staining just to find out that the cherry color was the color of cherry wood, not the cherry the berry. So, I ended up in light brown guitar, and I did not like it at all. I had to order red stain from online store, and today I stained the guitar again. I did not remove the previous stain, I just sanded it down to 320 grit again. The result looks rather good to me. The wood is heavily figured, so the stain looks figured as well. I think it looks better at this stage than the SG Junior did before applying the Danish oil.
If it doesn't rain tomorrow, I will glue the neck to its place.
By the way, the neck looks slightly twisted. It remains to be seen if it causes problems.
