I was just gonna +1 juansolo's comment... but I think it's more along the lines of:
niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice :D :lol:
I'd be interested to know if wood dye was involved as well (although, from the pics, I suspect not). My memory of doing this is that the "wood dye stage" was the scariest bit (and the most likely to go horribly wrong looks-wise).
On the "wishing for a more figured top" - I think that will wear off. It did for me at least... I went through roughly the same thing (this was a big ole lump of mahogany). When I first saw the effect of the oil and wax, there was a real feeling of "wow! that's cool, pity the wood itself isn't very interesting...". And, yes, just a tiny bit more interesting would have been stunning when I first finished... but after living with it for a while, actually, the wood is a lot more interesting than I realised at the time!
