The Tru Oil finish on the neck is lovely to play. For those interested:
1. Applied one coat a day with a lint free cloth
2. After each coat had dried for a day I used 0000 wire wool (remember to thoroughly blow away the dust from the wire wool before next coat - while wearing glasses it's a bitch in the eye). Did this for 6 or 7 days.
3. After last coat I left it a week to fully polymerise before using wire wool.
4. Then used a rough face cloth to buff to finish. (using this method you can go from Matt through to Silk or Gloss)
I can't recommend a B.K. fully loaded scratchplate enough. Planned to build a faraday cage with copper or aluminum foil, however as I heard it can effect the tone of pickups I tried it without first. These B.K. ready shielded Pickguards are sooo quiet it doesn't need extra shielding.
I wanted the guitar to be workman like, so it's cool to read I have achieved that. I would have possibly bought pre painted/finished neck and body, but finances would not stretch. I would in a future build go with the same Tru oil method on a neck, I find it very natural to play and saves quite a bit of cash.
Martin
