{"id":10,"date":"2008-11-16T03:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/site\/?p=10"},"modified":"2018-07-06T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T18:54:07","slug":"starting-the-finish-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Starting the Finish Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ho1392xIQ0A\/SR-VuZYq7pI\/AAAAAAAADp0\/oD5eR6WTQiY\/s1600-h\/DSC_5343.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ho1392xIQ0A\/SR-VuZYq7pI\/AAAAAAAADp0\/oD5eR6WTQiY\/s320\/DSC_5343.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> guitar before finishing. I&#8217;m setting up a mini-shop in the basement so I can do the work. I had to wait about a week for LMI to ship the wood filler and tru-oil sealer. I&#8217;m going to start on the back, sides, neck on Sunday. Today, I cleaned up the top a little and put on 2 coats so far of the tru-oil. Because of the timing of the course in VT, we put some oil on the top already, but it still needs to be built up. I probably should do the back before I get too far into the top process, so I&#8217;ll let this dry overnight and start with the sealer in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Most people see to think that the finishing process is a whole &#8216;nother art form and it probably is. I can see scratches and dents all over the top of the guitar. You can&#8217;t see them from a few feet away, but you certainly can under a light and at a good angle. Luckily, I think the back and sides are in pretty good shape, so maybe they will come out better.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep the blog posted on my progress as we go over the next couple of days. I want to get it done soon so it has time to cure before Thanksgiving, when I&#8217;ll want to bring the guitar up to Maine for the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Chris<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'><a href='http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/' target='ext'><img src='http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the guitar before finishing. I&#8217;m setting up a mini-shop in the basement so I can do the work. I had to wait about a week for LMI to ship the wood filler and tru-oil sealer. I&#8217;m going to start &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/?p=10\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}