Neck tinting

[KRamone27]

Has anyone done this before. I've heard from some people that you can get some stain from home depot and do it.

[GattonFan]

Never have, but i've seen some great results from using Tru-Oil on the refinishing website. It looks great for a natural finish, and supposed to be a thinskin, too.

Dennis

[MWaldorf]

I used "Fender Neck Amber" from ReRanch. A couple of passes before clearcoating gave a nice tint. You can read a bit more about it on my semi-mosrite topic, it's about half-way down this page: http://www.mosriteforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=112&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=90

[bakeoboy]

I've always used a deep red laquer tint ! (believe it or not ,if you use just a little it comes out gold). the re ranch stuff looks good too,and easier if you don't have a gun,compressor etc.
Artie

[oipunkguy]

hey kevin,

this can be an art form, in and of itself. I use reranch colors myself, and this is what I do.
for the butterscotch tele color:

1. stain the bare wood with a natural oil based stain and wait for it to dry. I use bartley's
2. shoot the neck in a light coat of clear or sanding sealer.
3. spray the neck with reranch's butter scotch color, not to be confused with butterscotch blonde. it's easy to go too dark, usually less is more when color coating, I recommend practicing on a strap piece of maple.
4. spray your clear coats.

for the aged maple look, usually seen on other fenders I do this.

1. stain the bare wood with natural like before.
2. spray a thin coat of clear or sanding sealer.
3. then spray a very, very, very light coat of fender neck amber from reranch.
4. then go at it again with reranch's tinted clear coat. this will give you the look of an aged clear coat. again spray a very light coat. depending on the aged of the maple, this can come out fairly dark (why I say spray a light coat) on an older neck, or if it's new, it will come out lighter. if it's too light, just repeat steps 3 and 4 until you'll happy with it.
5. clear coat the neck.

sometimes if I'm working with a piece of maple that really light, like almost white in color, i'll mix my clear stain with a little provincial or even a cherry to darken the wood up slightly. again, I recommend practicing on a scrape piece of maple. hard rock maple can at times be a royal pain in the butt to work with, so i just want to reiterate, practice, practice, practice, because it's nothing like finishing woods like mahogany or walnut which is a million times easier.

hope this helps dude.