Oh shit what have I started now?
Guess I gotta finish it.

I wanted to add some faded brown to give this more of an aged faded burst vs the uniform ambered colour it has stock from the factory as you see and know.
Once all the hardware was off however I decided I didn't like the convexed hump down the center of the guitar between the pups so I decided to sand it out flat like the old Bursts. I block sanded it back, studying a whole bunch of bursts and replicas, to the tail posts so it was all uniform and also tackled the slightly higher hump on the treble post side, since these are all hand carved tops.
So here we go down the rabbit hole!