It's a Veritable Winter Wonderland

The first proper snow of the season has started for fall. 3" are expected overnight.

The morning was spent in a final attempt to gather up the leaves we wanted gathered up. You can only mulch so many of them into the yard before they start with the killing of the grass. It is bitterly cold, and there is a ripping wind, as I learned on a 6 mile run this morning.

It is time now to move to spin classes and to take things indoors. 

The beet juice worked brilliantly as a dye on the guitar, taking it from a piece of wood:

To this (which was quite deep after...I actually lost track of how many coats, after I lost track of how many times I sanded the wood):

And a wipe-on poly finish sealed in the color:

This little project has ended up making my most expensive guitar. As the bits and pieces (Seymour Duncan Hot Rails for Tele pickups, string trees, output jack, 500K ohm pots, bridge, copper tape for making cute little Faraday cages for the electronic bits) it's added up...especially with the custom neck...to a little over $1K. Ye gods. That wasn't quite what was intended. 

Still, that's now a big chunk of what tomorrow will be spent doing.