Most builders sand the body smooth. Kenny went the other way and cut the grain into relief.
The body is ash. He attacked it with a wire brush and a rotary tool, then put it through a sandblast cabinet to etch out the soft grain and leave the hard grain standing proud.
The back and sides are kind of an ash weathered look and I used a small dremel and wirebrush and threw it in the sandblast cabinet to etch out the wood grain on the ash part of the body.
The result reads more like weathered driftwood than a guitar body, and the texture is real rather than printed. You can see the growth rings standing up off the surface.
Then the flame maple top gets a stain and a turquoise edge, which is about as far from the sandblasted back as you could get on the same instrument.
This one is a build in progress rather than a finished guitar, and we are posting it because the surface work is worth seeing on its own. Kenny, if you are reading this, we would love the finished photos.
Has anyone else here textured a body rather than smoothed it? Show us.