I've just finished doing the little experiment with the scrap piece of wood and the two cans of Clear Coat, I've only sprayed one coat from each can on there respective halves of the scrap piece of wood and got some interesting results, the actual differences are very slight, with the Clear Rust Guard half looking a bit shinier than the other half with Clear Acrylic on it, which looks slightly hazy, I didn't notice any adverse reactions to the Gold paint with either of the two Clear Coats, so, I'm going to go ahead and go with Wokka's recommendation of using White Knight Clear Rust Guard to Clear Coat the Gold Strat Body, furthermore, the Gold Paint on the body appears to have dried fully so I'm going to go ahead with Clear Coating the body today, will post pics after spraying the first coat so you can see what it looks like.
Will also post a pic of the scrap piece of wood too.....stay tuned.
Okay, here's a pic of the scrap of wood I used for the experiment, the left-half has Clear Acrylic on it, and the Right-half has the Rust Guard on it, hopefully you can see the slight differences:
Okay here are a couple of pics of the guitar body with it's first coat of clear coat on it, to my eyes the Clear Coating doesn't seem to have dulled the shine of the paint much, so I'm pretty happy with the result I got, the surface texture is far from being smooth but that's not really an issue because I'm not really aiming to create a mirror-smooth finish on the guitar body, it's going to end up with scratches and dings in it anyway, so I'm aiming for a more functional finish that's really only there to stop the wood from discolouring from dirt and sweat, etc, besides this guitar is meant to be played:
Anyway......here we go, first the front:
And the back:
Last edited by DrNomis_44; 24-04-2017 at 08:46 AM.
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