Friday

I do think the person you mention is in the business of selling new guitars on a large scale. What did you expect him to say?

Hi again. I haven’t done the staining part of this project yet. I won’t be attempting to hide the repair very much at all, just to enhance the aesthetics of the general area. I haven’t gone down to bare wood. I do not expect the CA in the repair to accept stain very well at all, but it’s ok with me. I have even been considering treating the area with a Kintsubi (gold leaf) effect on the whole crack as it has a good shape to it. I wonder whether that’s a thing. Undecided. Yours is a more valuable instrument and you’ll need to do tests on scrap wood. Probably best not to sand back any further on the actual neck.

I’ll be very interested in the responses you get as I have exactly the same finish matching challenge on my recent project (neck repair on Epiphone SG Pro). Regarding your remaining crack … what I did was fill with multiple layers of mahogany sawdust packed down then wet with *thin* CA glue. You would omit the sawdust as it’s a tiny crack. Get the CA on in very thin passes until it’s just proud of the neck surface. Scrape smooth each dry layer with a protected flat razor blade and sand with 2000 and 3000 grit wet paper. Beautiful. After that is your finish matching. Which I’d be very keen to hear about as this is my next step too. Good luck.