If it's coated and it's flat, I'd leave it there. It's being used to fill the wood and provide a thick enough coat so that it can be sanded flat and provide a smooth surface for the colour coat to spray on to. No point making it thicker than it needs to be.
Some more progress on this build... it's chugging along slowly.
After the 3rd attempt at primer, showed it to a friend who builds movie props. He knows his primer. He said to try again.
So, 4th primer spray went well. It ended up looking really nice and smooth, nice coverage, and none of the dry gritty stuff. The difference is that this time I shook the buggery out of the can for about 6 minutes before spraying, and sprayed onto cardboard first, then shook, then sprayed more onto cardboard, etc, until it was coming out right. So *that's* what it's meant to look like. Huh. More lessons learned.
Then moved on to the red colour. It's going to be red around the edges, black on the front and back.
I think I got 5 coats out of the red can. I think it looks OK? It's certainly covered all of the bits. Realised about an hour later that I meant to save some red paint for doing the knobs. Dammit.
Some more photos. I'm now waiting a week to be really sure the red is dry, before doing masking and spraying black. (When testing on scrap, I found that the red got marked by the masking tape if I pressed it on within 24 hours, so I'm leaving it for much longer, just to make sure)
looking great so far, your young fella must be stoked.
red looks great MJG. What's happening in the centre you doing a burst ?
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scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
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scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
Thanks guys. Yeah the kid was blown away by the red.
Going to be black up to the bevels. Something a bit non traditional! No bursts! (Mainly because that would depend on me controlling a spray can with some level of finesse. I ain't there yet)
Yep. I am a card carrying member of that club also. No shame in that.Originally Posted by mjg
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Yeah i agree that red has come out great. Looking good mjg
I'm still puzzled why the area near the bridge pup and trem cavity are still primer grey, did you run out of paint ?
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
The top is going to be black. All the red on the top surface is simply overspray from spraying the edges and the bevels.
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