Sonics Build No.6 - The Triple Black-O-Caster

Nice and shiny sonic

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Originally Posted by Sonic Mountain

Just Cabot’s exterior gloss in a rattle can. It’s a good product. Different to acrylic, but you can get a really nice even finish without polishing if you do two or three applications and wet sand to 1500 in between. It flattens our really nicely as it drys.

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Yes that's the stuff I have used on most of my projects. It dries very hard and is extremely scratch resistant, but is harder to polish with auto cutting compounds and so on if you get bits in it, which can happen as it stays tacky for hours

Yeah a good dust free area is a must. I don't bother polishing it, it doesn't actually cut back very nicely compared to acrylic anyway. If you wet sand it really flat, taking out any orange peel and then do a final 'flow coat' application according to the instructions it flattens out really well and doesn't need polishing IMO.

A bit like a 2 pack application, but with a 2 hour tack time!

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Originally Posted by Sonic Mountain

Just Cabot’s exterior gloss in a rattle can. It’s a good product. Different to acrylic, but you can get a really nice even finish without polishing if you do two or three applications and wet sand to 1500 in between. It flattens our really nicely as it drys.

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Woah! Comes up brilliant.
Going to give it a go myself.
Thanks for the tip.
cheers, Mark.

Little bit more progress here. I've had some problems on the neck with some dust specks and imperfections I wasn't happy with, hopefully the last coat on this arvo. Gave the body another polish. There are still a couple of tiny scratches here and there, but I'll wait until I've done assembly as I'm bound to add more.

Quick mockup. I have this and another pick guard from PBG. They are slightly different shapes. I bought the second one as the kit one wasn't as nice a fit as I was hoping. Sadly the replacement isn't much better, just a bit wobbly in the cutting and some scratches even through the protective plastic on both.

I am being super picky though. I think I'll just keep refining the kit one, strip everything out and give it a polish to get the scratches out.

Black is a pain in the bum.

https://i.imgur.com/6g7MpT8.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/MVAAUyx.jpg

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Black is a pain in the bum.

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That's it, when done right it looks amazing even though it's very simple, but any blemish shows up very easily. Looking good though, I hope you can the finish to a level you're satisfied with, blacked out strat is a great look in my opinion.

not to shabby your getting better at spraying Sonic nice work mate 👍👍👍

Yes agree on the black. The telecaster I’m finishing in black shows every micro spec of dust!


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Damn man that Black finish is great:cool: I too know how hard it is to do a black finish. That my friend is a labor of love