Thanks guys. It took me a while to get back here. The finish is definitely probably an overkill, but I wanted to learn, so I started with a french polish until I decided it wouldn't be as durable as I'd like, and sprayed it with nitro laquer.
This was slow and tedious, as I'm sure it always is. But the results became addictive and rewarding. Many sandings between coats and lots of patience were required. Eventually areas like the back seam became nice and flat. At first I wasn't sure this would happen but persistence payed off.
I also noticed while french polishing that when I messed up an area, trying to fix it would make it worse. When I just kept polishing, the successive coats
would slowly cause a surface defect to dissapear on its own. This ended up being the most important lesson I think. It also generally seemed to hold true for the laquer, where I just kept on with sanding and spraying new coats, rather than concentrating on a particular ding or unevenness.
I hope this isn't too much information. By the way, I am pretty amazed at how good it sounds. I took it to the fifth string here in Berkeley where I showed it to Jim Hyatt, with whom I've talked for years about building this. He gave it the thumbs up. A guy (don't know his name) who went to Oberlin and is an incredible player tried it and really liked it too. It seems to have real nice sustain for this kind of guitar.
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