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Stain Neck and Undercoat Body
The neck has been stained with Feast and Watson Golden Teak to give that old school look. Will finish the neck with Tru Oil.
The Body has been undercoated with SCA rattle can. The colour of the photo is not right its actually more a grey/white colour. Will finish the body with white acrylic lacquer paint using a touch up spray gun and a compressor. Hope my technique is good enough.
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Tru oil Neck and Paint Body
There is now 9 thin coats of Tru Oil on the neck. Three coats then sanded with 1000 grit, another 3 coats sanded with 1500 grit and finally another 3 coats and sanded with 2000 grit. I have never used Tru Oil before but I am impressed with the ease of use and the finish you can build up.
Body painted white and had serious problems trying to spray paint. I am am amateur at spray painting and although I followed the advice on the tin of paint to dilute by 20%, the finish was very splotchy and flakey. I think dilution of 1:1 would have been a lot better. I sanded it all back to bare wood, and then undercoated and top coated with spray cans. I havent given up on the spray gun as yet and will attempt to spray the clear coat but will dilute it 1:1 and not go by the recommendation on the can of 20%. The paint is from SCA and may not have been the best choice, perhaps should have gone to an automotive paint specialist.
Rattle can gave quite a good finish and followed the method of Phrozin ie 3 coats x 3 wet coats 20 minutes apart. Quite cold in Tassie but appears to have worked quite well.
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Spray Clear Acrylic lacquer
Sprayed a series of 5 x 3 wet coats of clear acrylic lacquer. My spray gun technique must be rubbish as I got a lot of orange peel and overspray from the sides onto the top and back. Hopefully there is enough lacquer to sand smooth but I suspect I will have to do a great deal of sanding. Will let it stand for 4 weeks until I sand it back. Still some work to do on the neck until then.
