Neck preparation

[Stevie]

I'm finishing off a guitar project which means i have an unfinished neck to finish. Its maple and as such i want it to have the same feel as my Axis necks. So i have the BC oil and wax all ready but a couple of questions i have and your ideas please.

1. Silly question, I know the neck (back of) gets the BC treatment but does the fretboard on the Axis also get the treatment? I would say yes but comments please.
2. On the non matching Axis headstock it is finished in satin, is this sprayed on with nitro, rubbed on with poly or what?

I know there is quite a bit of this stuff floating around on the forum, but when one asks specific questions you hope to get specific answers, if you know what i mean.

Thanks,

 

[Jack FFR1846]

From the look and feel, I gotta say that the fingerboard is also treated as the back of the neck. The headstock on an Axis and Axis Supersport (at least mine) are finished in urathane and it's shiny gloss, not matte. I have seen Silhouettes and Albert Lees that appear to have the headstock also finished in the BC oil/wax, but I am not sure. Could be maybe a matte finish urathane, but not sure.

I have a non EBMM guitar that has a finished neck and plan to sand it down and completely finish it in the bc oil wax. I've done that with the neck of my Sublhouette and it's been great. Not at all hard to do.

 

[Stevie]

Thanks Jack. So are you going to finish your headstock in BC oil and wax as well as the rest of the neck?

 

[Jack FFR1846]

Thanks Jack. So are you going to finish your headstock in BC oil and wax as well as the rest of the neck?

The Sublhouette used my ASS as a model so it's got poly on the headstock and bc on the rest of the neck. The fingerboard is rosewood and the bc works great and allows sanding the paint and the side of the rosewood.

The non EBMM guitar has a walnut headstock front laminate, so I'll be sanding and doing BC on the bare neck and side/back of that headstock.

If you get a chance to see a silo and an Axis, it's worth seeing both as they look very different. I actually like the silo/Al where it all looks like BC but with my sub, I wanted to make the black paint on the front/back of the headstock shine, thus urathane.