Quote Originally Posted by thisisdonald View Post
Tinted lacquer! If you stain beech, 9/10 it will have areas really dark and areas that won't take the stain at all.. best thing to do is strip it back, get the grain all looking nice and even and give it a nice thick coat of varnish!!
It doesn't have to be cheap boring old varnish.. check these out:
http://www.rothkoandfrost.com/tinted...uitar-lacquer/
That's a good tip. I haven't started dying yet. So perhaps I should go for tinted lacquer.
The only thing I don't understand is that you write that 9/10 beech stocks don't take stain. Whereas almost all beech stocks are stained/dyed by the manufacturers right? And they always look pretty decent.
Thanks, Louis