DrNomis_44's Gold Standard STA-1M Build.

[wazkelly]

Hi Doc, looks like a bit of the Ash grain poking through on the back that tends to indicate not enough sealer before applying paint.

Not wrong about a few runs. May need to hold the can a bit further away and use light passes rather than trying to liberally coat the thing in one pass as in your climate too thick a coat can equal disaster very quickly.

[DrNomis_44]

Hi Doc, looks like a bit of the Ash grain poking through on the back that tends to indicate not enough sealer before applying paint.

Not wrong about a few runs. May need to hold the can a bit further away and use light passes rather than trying to liberally coat the thing in one pass as in your climate too thick a coat can equal disaster very quickly.

Cheers, and you're right about that, I'm going to give the body a good sanding-down in the morning hopefully I can get the body a bit smoother so that the grain isn't showing through like it is, the instructions said to hold the can 20cm from the object I was spraying, which I did, I guess I need a bit more practice at spray-painting with spray cans, if worse comes to worse, I'll buy some 80 grit sand paper from the big green shed, strip off all the paint, put some Maple Timbermate on the body and re-paint it again.

[wazkelly]

There might be other filler solutions you could use rather than sanding back and starting again. Bets to check with the paint dept at the 'shed'.

[DrNomis_44]

There might be other filler solutions you could use rather than sanding back and starting again. Bets to check with the paint dept at the 'shed'.

Cheers mate will do, but I'll have to wait till next fortnight cause I'm very low on money, so I can't buy any more stuff from the big green shed till then, did you check out the pic I posted of the overhang on the 22-fret neck I'm using on the Gold Strat body?, if so, hope that clears things up, I reckon you should be able to put a 22-fret neck on your guitar with minimal issues, providing that the neck fits relatively well in the neck pocket, you should also have minimal issues with the scale length too, hope you manage to find a good 22-fret neck for your guitar at a good price mate.