Noob inquiring about finishing a strat black

[wazkelly]

I have been down the let an auto spray painter do the job and it killed the tone by making it sound too bright and seriously lacked any warmth at all.

Some may want to bring up the tone wood argument and there are plenty of opinions on that topic and I lean more towards letting the timber talk rather than kill it with too much dense finish as that reflects the sound more than projecting the resonating body sound.

[andrewdosborne]

I have been down the let an auto spray painter do the job and it killed the tone by making it sound too bright and seriously lacked any warmth at all.

Some may want to bring up the tone wood argument and there are plenty of opinions on that topic and I lean more towards letting the timber talk rather than kill it with too much dense finish as that reflects the sound more than projecting the resonating body sound.

Yes, thinner the finish the better. I recently had a play on one of the new American Fender Elite series Jazz basses (natural ash finish) Lacked resonance with what I could only put down to the rather thick gloss polyurethane finish. A real disappointment considering the asking price

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