Thank You!
It's stained. With this sort of wood, you have to use a pre-stain otherwise you run a real risk of the stain being blotchy.
Here's what I did to finish the base. After assembly I used a power sander to get it nice and smooth. Some compressed air and then tack cloth to get rid of the dust. Then pre-stain. After the pre-stain, I did multiple coats of stain. Then I used a semi gloss polyurathane, sanding between coats and once again, using compressed air and tack cloth. Were I to do this again, the only thing I would do different would be to use steel wool between coats of polyurathane (did 3 coats). I used steel wool between poly coats on another wood project and like the results better but someone talked me out of using the steel wool, saying I run the risk of tiny bits of the steel breaking off and embedding into the wood. That had never been my experience and I don't know why I listened.
Came out quite nice anyway . . . .
PS- this is my first BH kit. Must be another Nathan lurking around as well.
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Crack/Speedball, SEX 2.1/C4S, Bryston BHA-1
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