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Hello everyone! I am a luthier that makes custom electric guitars. I love making and designing guitars as well as showing others how to do it. This channel is all about my journey creating high quality instruments for the discerning musician. I hope that you will follow along and see how we craft our passion. Thanks for stopping by the channel!
Guitar Headstock Decal
In this video I'll show you how dead simple it is to make a high quality, beautiful headstock logo for your guitar. Please ensure you have applies a few clear coats to your headstock prior to applying the waterslide decal. Make sure the surface is flat and smooth, free of high spots and dust. Your decal will need to have the same finish used on the headstock to ensure proper adhesion and continuity. All you'll need is listed below.
Vector graphic software
Clear coat finish of your choosing
Waterslide decal paper. I used a.co/d/aJVEpBr
Bowl of warm water
Paper towels
Vector graphic software
Clear coat finish of your choosing
Waterslide decal paper. I used a.co/d/aJVEpBr
Bowl of warm water
Paper towels
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How to stain a guitar body with Angelus Leather Dyes (In real time)
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Hello everyone and welcome! In this video I will walk you trough my process of dyeing a figured guitar body top. Just a few tips and tricks and my preferred technique for dyeing. So grab a coffee or your favorite beverage, some snacks and a comfy chair cause it's gonna be a long one! Products used in this video angelusdirect.com/collections/low-voc-leather-dye thecrystalacstore.com/products/cry...
How to apply Tru-Oil Finish to a guitar
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In this series of videos I show my process and tips on how to effectively apply a Tru-Oil finish to a guitar body and neck. Follow along to learn more and see the finished result at the end of the series. Thank you so much for following along! Enjoy. For more information about Soleil Guitars please visit soleilguitars.com. Products used in this series; Birchwood & Casey Tru-Oil (www.amazon.com/...
Unboxing and review of the Soleil Guitars Terra Standard Prototype
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This is the first prototype model from Soleil Guitars.
Gorgeous colors!
Thanks!
.023” bit? Depth of cut? Speed/feed?
Yes, .023" 2 flute spiral up cut bit. Depth is .005" per pass. Speed is 50in/min and 15in/min plunge rate.
@@SoleilGuitars Thanks so much. Do you find those are pretty safe speeds with most fretboard woods? Where do you source your .023” bits?
@@AMusicalPsychosis bitsbits is a great source for CNC bits. And yes it's been safe for all types of maple and rosewood. But really just play it safe by going slow and playing with it. You can also get bits on eBay but I haven't found the length I was looking for. I shoot for a bit that can exceed the depth of the slot. After sanding the fretboard radius you will lose slot depth.
Looks awesome! How hard does it get after fully curing?
It's a very durable finish. Not as durable as a 2k poly of course but it's also easy to repair.
@@SoleilGuitars Awesome, thank you for the reply! I have a project with about 12 coats curing now for about 3 weeks and am just paranoid to assemble it haha.
Looks realy great! Out of curiousity: What is the base for those dyes? Are they waterbased? I'm looking for a dye/stain that i can put under an oilfinish where the color doesnt sip through by sweating on it and such
I believe they are alcohol based. These are the low VOC variety so there are no harmful fumes to speak of
Good work. How do You avoid lints ? I used t-shirt, too but lot of lints also went with true oil and now I need to sand it but it's really hard do do it to not touch the paint, I also painted same way but with Rit Dye. Greetings from Poland.
I didn't really have much of a lint problem. Preparing the wood surface to be flat with no pronounced grain is key. I just pick out any lint I find with a toothpick. You can also use sanding sealer before applying the oil but I haven't tried it yet.
@@SoleilGuitarsThank You
The blue is SOOOOOO hard to blend with Turquoise well. Dunno why, but the blue is difficult. Usually I find mixing neutral with a light blue as the blend between turquoise and blue does a pretty good job stays a good color and blends em nice.
Thanks I'll try that next time
Very nice. Great idea!
Thanks!
2 questions.. why not use tape on your area you're not wanting stain? Also, (I'm fairly new to staining I've done a few guitars) why didn't you put down a base coat to make the grain show through more? Nice guitar!
The stain will wick under the tape, ask me how I know lol. And what do you mean by base coat?
@@SoleilGuitars Haha note taken! An initial coat of brown or black sanded back that sticks into the grain
@@SmokeyJenkinsGuitars Oh I gotcha. That's not the look I was going for. But many of my builds I do start with a black dye sanded back. I was going for lighter color this time. Angelus dyes go on pretty dark to begin with. This was a new color option on this guitar so I was experimenting. Sanding sealer is your best friend to prevent bleed. If you do get some the color sands out pretty easy.
@SoleilGuitars Oh okay I'm with ya. I've got some powdered dyes and also Angelus and I absolutely love the Angelus. I'll have to give this a shot next time. Reminds me of a PRS look. Nice work and will definitely subscribe and keep watching!
@@SmokeyJenkinsGuitars Thank you so much! I've tried a bunch of dyes but by far Angelus is my favorite.
Wow, that's Amazing how it works, making the designs and details ....
For a sharp edge I would wrap a thin piece of the staining cloth around a butter knife or something like that. You would have control and could dab the cloth onto something first to get the consistency you want before touching the wood. Happy staining!
Test it out and let me know how it works!
@@SoleilGuitars Oh, I've already done that method on other wood staining projects. A putty knife for a straight edge or something more rounded for a curved edge works well. Try it sometime!
Wow !!! That is so...Cool
It's a pretty neat process to get such a fantastic looking result!
@SoleilGuitars Definitely agree!!!
Thanks for posting this bro. I'm about to do this to a Warmoth body, and need as much confidence building as I can get! You mentioned you don't do grain filling... are you getting this thing real glossy on the end result without it? Ever try the slurry method (sanding a layer or two of finish in to make it slurry up and self fill all the grain)?
I don't grain fill Maple because of the dense grain structure, just make sure to raise the grain several times with water and sand afterwards to avoid grain raise later on. I sand to 600 grit before applying any finish. As far as other more porous woods I would suggest grain filling. I didn't on this build because I wasn't going for a perfectly flat finish. As far as the slurry method goes I have never tried it so I don't have an opinion.
That’s a beauty of a guitar man. Great work. Thank you for the information. Right now I’m 3 coats in on my first build. Your tips are much appreciated.
Thanks! Good luck to you!
Thanks for posting. Great blends of awesome colors. Perhaps a fine, high quality, watercolor brush (or other type of artist's brush) might be good to use for applying stain near the edges of the natural wood. 🤔 And staining the edges first would allow you to rest and steady your hand on the top of the unfinished body. I dunno. Just a thought. 🙂
You're welcome! The stain tends to bleed really easily so you have to be extremely careful around edges I don't use brushes for that reason. I find that two or three coats of sanding sealer works really well to keep dye in the areas that you don't want it. If you do happen to get dye on the area with sanding sealer it sands out really quickly.
@@SoleilGuitars 👍
easier with masking tape? very nice work!
Thanks! The dye tends to bleed under the tape. Sanding sealer and patience worked better for me.
Thank you for the video. Seeing this done from start to finish is really valuable to us. 29:53: This is the moment when you should have mixed some of the neutral and the darker blue together on a new cotton rag and used that lighter blue to transition between the aqua/turquoise and the dark blue. In retrospect you might have put some of this mix as a border between the much richer/darker blue and the turquoise originally, but that's hindsight. That neutral dye is a real tool once you get used to utilizing it.
Good point, I'll try that next time
So.....very, very Beautiful
Thank you so much 😀
Amazing Craftsmanship, Wow that's Awesome look at all the Beautiful Colors and Details!!!
Thank you very much!
Detailed.
Nice.
That's pretty kool.
Wicked.
Fast.
Kool info!
Love it.
Nice!
Pretty nice.
Thank you
Cool guiitar but a bit expensive for us in EU (with taxes and shipping).
Unfortunately true. I don't currently offer shipping outside the US at the moment.
You see me personally, i would pull out the 9mm glock auto lock hollow points before I would let someone do that to me.
It wouldn't be pleasant that's for sure!