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I gave up on good painting weather here. There is no time when humidity and temp are reliably good for painting. It's why, over time I have ended up using products that are happy in higher temps and not bothered by humidity. I sand and spray outside. The latter only with MTN94. Everything else brushed or wiped indoors. All but the shellac water based.
They don't level as easily other products or spraying. They take longer to cure. But if I am patient and careful...I can pass the 3 foot rule ;-)
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I chose the color to go with the pickguard, but I hadn't actually seen the color+clear together with the pickguard until now.
I sort of wanted to see how it would look with the rest of the hardware I plan to transfer from my old SX Frankenbass to the new bass. But that would be a fair amount of trouble, since it's all still attached to the SX. All I have taken off the SX is the pickguard, so that the bass is otherwise playable.
The finish won't be hard enough to sand for at least another few weeks, but I think it's hard enough for me to begin some gentile attacks with a razor blade. I have used the taped razor blade trick to good effect in the past. Keeping fingers crossed that it works this time as well (although I admit it's hard to hold the razor blade with crossed fingers).
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The colour combo works really well. Good luck with the razor blade scraper - my favorite scraper.
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Thanks! I used the razorblade on one area today, and it worked nicely. So it's ready for me to start that, if not ready for full sanding. The neck, was ready for sanding however. Razor blade worked well on the one small run I had on the back of the neck. The principle part that needed to be leveled was the headstock which is now pretty darned flat sanded.
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I used mesh sanding discs 3M 220 (very carefully) and Diablo 400. I then finishes with a maroon and a gray 3M sanding pad. Best sanding experience I have had. Mesh sanding disks are a game changer!
So the neck is flat, and sanded to "satin." I did a sort of hybrid finish on this one. I used satin finish on the back of the neck and gloss on the front of the headstock. After sanding it all looks like satin now, but I am hoping the front of the headstock will look shinier after buffing. That won't come for a while. Won't set up the buffer until the body is ready to buff as well. At that point I should be ready to buff this bass as well as my Tele project.
