Today I finished sanding down the neck completely, and went to B & Q to get some wood dye (and also some cable to rewire my amp's grounding). There's lovely birdseye on this neck, and I didn't even have to pay any extra for it.
I've just finished applying the wood dye, it's "Antique Pine" variant and looks really quality. Diffrerent from the traditional amber Fender maple neck dye, it's less orange and a bit browner; making it look a lot more natural. I wish I could show you guys how wonderful the neck now looks, but this camera is absolute cr@p for giving a true colour representation and messes up the colours. However, it sortof shows how the birdseye has come through with the dye. The effect looks so much better than this in person (or with a better camera lol), but you get the idea.
Before:
After:
The dye actually looks darker than this, and there's a lot more birdseye (even in this spot) than the photograph shows.
This ones slightly better at showing the dye's colour, but the flash has made it a bit bright in places so you can't make out the grain/birdseye effect properly, and it makes the dye look patchy (which it isn't):
More pics:
I've left the headstock like this, since it's getting resprayed black. Before the neck was completely black over the maple bits, but I've decided to make it look more natural and just leave the headstock black.
Before I used Halfords' Car Paint, which was acrylic, this time I'm using Nitrocellulose.
