Well it is nearing completion, finally.
Still need to add the stamped serial, lacquer over it, and dull/age the finish a little bit but otherwise good to go.
Been a tough but fun journey as since my spontaneous pneumothorax in January life just has not been the same.
Chest has moments of tightness, back is still sore and can be quite intense pain wise at times, and just overall life is good but...different however life is impermanent and each moment never the same as the next so just take it a second at a time and live.
I need to do a little more work on the knobs to get them where I want them but that is minor.

Still waiting on the white Dimarzio pickup rings and my Stamp to arrive so while I have been waiting I thought I would age the light gold knobs to a nice old amber along with rounding out the edges at the top.

They look much better than the store bought really dark amber knobs that came original on my Nav.

Hopefully the rings will be here tomorrow and the stamp...well they sent me Gothic #2 by mistake so I had to send it back and wait for the correct one to be shipped...brilliant.

Lacquer has sat for awhile to off gas so polished it up a bit, reamed the overflow of lacquer out of the pot and switch holes (minus a little piece chipping off and patching it back with some thinner).

Put the bridge posts back in yada yada.

Scraped the binding yesterday and tossed on a coat of clear both front and back.

It looks so much more cherry and darker in the photos than it does in person.

Excuse the crappy cell phone photos.

So I did 3 different stages of bursting today.
The 1st was a faded browned cherry with a brighter yellow amber center.
I dug this but since I did a nice top clear coat this gives me the ability to wet sand this all off and start over if need be.

Then I decided to see what a slightly wider burst with a still more yellowed center would be like.

I dug this too.

Then finally I decided, since I have always been a Brock Burst fan, to do it up that style with a wider burst but more browned cherry and a more aged amber center.

Here under sunlight:

Here in the shade:

That is all for now folks...or folk if anyone is reading this =P

Managed to shoot 3 coats of Nitro today after work, used as the base coat/sealer.
Putting clear lacquer on as a base vs sanding sealer is my preferred method since lacquer is so much easier to sand off if ever a refinish is needed again in the future.
Plus it makes things SO much easier to sand back a mistake in the bursting/colouring without hitting the wood.
Here are a few shots while it was curing in our warm spring sun.

Cured for 1.5 hours (below), VERY slightly soft if you press on it but hard enough to wet sand with 400 grit.

Will check it tomorrow to see if there are any pores or raised grain. If not she will be ready for her 1st coat of yellow/amber. =D

As usual I have been forgetting to update my blog...Bacchus is done and plays and sounds fantastic now that it is lacquered and out of its poly cocoon.