Hi all
**** has hit the fan. I thought I'd clearcoat the neck before the body, and things were looking good.... I was using rustoleum clear gloss in a can and the guy at my local paint shop assured me it was 'polyurethane'. This so called polyurethane looked nice and shiny straight out of the can onto the guitar neck... I was surprised. After applying 15 coats i decided to wait a while for the polyurethane to cure, it eventually did and I moved on to wet sanding. I used 3000 grit wet & dry and It worked... kinda. As expected the majority of the surface was smooth and dull but there were small shiny spots everywhere and every time I got rid of them more shiny spots would appear...... I ended up burning through the clear all the way down to bare wood in a small area. So again I hung the neck in my garage went over it with clear coat over and over again until hitting 16? Coats. After the final coat I went to bed for the night and woke up the next day to see that the guitar neck had fallen from its contraption down onto the dirty little piece of carpet that laid on the garage floor. At this point I'm incredibly annoyed and have quite honestly lost all motivation to continue this build. I hope i'm not the only one who's gone through this dilemma.
Regards, Joe