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I thought some of ya might get a kick out of this. my brother and his wife bought their first house last year, and it's pretty nice, but it needed a lil fixing up. one of the first things they began working on is the master bathroom. they went with a water theme (go figure right?) and one day handed me this beat up piece of wood, which actually was broken in half. they told me it was the old door threshold to the bathroom and asked me to come up with something cool.

so i went down to my local lowes and picked up a pine threshold board. but what was cool is I found a piece with really kick butt figuring in it. so using the broken threshold as a template, and cut this board. I then pulling out my mohawk powder stain/toner, or whatever you call it, royal blue. I mixed a little bit of it up with some regular old midwax natural stain and rubbed out the board. at first it was so blue I couldn't see the grain. the stain is powerful! so I then pulled some of the extra color out by rubbing it out with a tiny bit of mineral spirits. and wah-la! it looked great! I loved the look of it, it almost looked like waves of water!. too bad it couldn't have been on a guitar
i clear coated it with a little bit of nitro, but switched over to using a spray gloss spar varnish for durability. here's some pics I took.

Indeed it turned out cool...next time round, I'd like to see it on a guitar

That totally rocks!

bleedin' crap that's looking freakin'awesome.

That's awesome Aaron. The first PIC reminded me of an aerial view of ocean waves coming ashore on some Caribbean beach .

Veenture wrote:Indeed it turned out cool...next time round, I'd like to see it on a guitar

I'd like to see it installed as the finished product.

It looks cool (Pun alarm)

dubtrub wrote:

Veenture wrote:Indeed it turned out cool...next time round, I'd like to see it on a guitar

I'd like to see it installed as the finished product.

I wonder how another one would look in seafoam green?

Austin

yeah, when i found that piece of wood I freaked. it looked so freakin 3-D. it would have been an awesome top on a guitar, even if it was pine