Would there be in a Bearwood body should I apply a pre stain first then the sanding sealer or just go straight with the sanding sealer¿
Stain goes before sanding sealer. As sealer does seal the pores in the wood, applying it before stain prevents the stain from absorbing in to the wood properly and can cause your stain to be blotchy.
If you’re worried about fibers standing up, you can wet the bare wood with water or mineral spirits and it will cause any loose fibers to stand up, allowing you to sand them down before proceeding. It might take a few rounds of that to get all of them. I prefer mineral spirits as that’s the solvent that is in most stains, so it will react with whatever fibers the stain may react with, making it pretty reliable. Spirits do evaporate kinda slow, but I think that gives it a better chance to lift loose fibers. It’s also just the way I was taught and I’m stubborn and stick to tradition 
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I’m just trying to get a natural finish on my T-40, I’ve I already bought Johnson Paste Wax. I just need to apply the sealer before I can apply to the paste wax. I haven’t really dealt with any woodworking Wood finishing or anything like that since high school. I don’t even remember none of it. I remember more about reading music in elementary school then I do about finishing wood in high school, there ain’t going to be no stains. Is seal it and wax it! There’s the back side of the body. I just want to apply to Johnson Paste wax. When I posted this exact same topic earlier. Dude asked me a question it was a very good question. What did I use seal the wood. So I had to pull the wax off so I had on the back. Get some sanding sealer and hopefully I’m good. But as far as a dark stain or any type of stain. Before the wax and the sealer. There ain’t going to be none.
I hope I’m making some kind of sense to you! I’m trying to get this 1979 Peavey t40 back to original condition. I didn’t want to take the body down as far as I did, but the original owner rode that b**** hard put it away with it all the damn time. So I had to take her back down to solid wood. Then I was on his one forum. That said Chip Todd the Creator of the Peavey T-60 guitar used johnsons paste wax. As the finish on the t60. So that’s what I want to do with the t40.
I have pre-stain, sanding sealer, dark ebony stain, semi-gloss polyurethane, and Johnson’s paste wax.
If you do help me at least get started I’ll figure the rest out as I go.
