{"id":11,"date":"2008-11-19T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/site\/?p=11"},"modified":"2018-07-06T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T18:54:07","slug":"finish-on-the-back-and-sides-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Finish on the Back and Sides Finally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_ho1392xIQ0A\/SSOG2iEiMXI\/AAAAAAAADqE\/q9vNPeoflKk\/s1600-h\/DSC_5351.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_ho1392xIQ0A\/SSOG2iEiMXI\/AAAAAAAADqE\/q9vNPeoflKk\/s320\/DSC_5351.JPG\" alt=\"pic of guitar back\" title=\"Guitar with finish on back\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270204260370493810\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I finally got tru-oil on the back and sides (see above) after a semi-long process of pore filling with LMI wood filler, tru-oil sealer, more pore filling, more sealing, then sanding from 220 &#8211; 320 &#8211; 400 &#8211; 600 grit. Now I have a nice, smooth surface. I didn&#8217;t fill the pores on the neck &#8211; for one thing, it was a bit of a pain to do, but mainly I like the look as it is.<\/p>\n<p>The photo at the right is what the back looked like before I started this finish process. I&#8217;m using the directions from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lmii.com\/CartTwo\/TruOil.htm\">LMI <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; clear: both; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_ho1392xIQ0A\/SSN9124lMHI\/AAAAAAAADp8\/TCSYU1WZT-Y\/s320\/DSC_5347.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>  which seem pretty complete to me. Not sure I&#8217;ll get to the final polishing until after we get back from Thanksgiving in Maine.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m waiting for the first coat of tru-oil to dry (about 2 hrs) so I can sand\/buff and put on another one before bedtime.<\/p>\n<p>over and out<\/p>\n<p>Chris<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/\" target=\"ext\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got tru-oil on the back and sides (see above) after a semi-long process of pore filling with LMI wood filler, tru-oil sealer, more pore filling, more sealing, then sanding from 220 &#8211; 320 &#8211; 400 &#8211; 600 grit. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/?p=11\">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":[14,7,10,9,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"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=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}