[ATTACH=CONFIG]44644[/ATTACH Ebonizing effect to the back of the neck, i should have taken some pictures but was way laid and forgot till i had the fist clear coat on. Looked very chalky once the ebonizing dried off, which made me apprehensive of going ahead with it, but I think it turned out fine. 2 coats of satin clear with 1200 grit wet and dry between coats, I will be applying 2 more coats of satin clear with 1200 grit wet and dry between coats. Tuner face head stock has had 3 light coats of enamel gloss black, I was very careful here with the taping process, used Frog tape so to keep a straight clean edge and took the edge over to leave a 1mm overhang so the paint would travel over the edge, a little annoying when the gloss seemed to stay flat and dry looking like chalk board paint up along the truss rod area between the fret board edge, not sure what was going on there, I was sure to clean everything off before spraying on the gloss, but again a bit of wet and dry and another coat has almost got rid of that problem, will be reviewing that tomorrow. There is a bit of glitching, at first some bubbling, which annoyed me but a sand off with 1200 grit after it dried then another coat seemed to clear it up. I will be wet and dry sanding and re taping before a further 3 light coats are applied. The body color should prove interesting, Still sanding and refining before any Indian ink is applied. So far, so good.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]44644[/ATTACH Ebonizing effect to the back of the neck, i should have taken some pictures but was way laid and forgot till i had the fist clear coat on. Looked very chalky once the ebonizing dried off, which made me apprehensive of going ahead with it, but I think it turned out fine. 2 coats of satin clear with 1200 grit wet and dry between coats, I will be applying 2 more coats of satin clear with 1200 grit wet and dry between coats. Tuner face head stock has had 3 light coats of enamel gloss black, I was very careful here with the taping process, used Frog tape so to keep a straight clean edge and took the edge over to leave a 1mm overhang so the paint would travel over the edge, a little annoying when the gloss seemed to stay flat and dry looking like chalk board paint up along the truss rod area between the fret board edge, not sure what was going on there, I was sure to clean everything off before spraying on the gloss, but again a bit of wet and dry and another coat has almost got rid of that problem, will be reviewing that tomorrow. There is a bit of glitching, at first some bubbling, which annoyed me but a sand off with 1200 grit after it dried then another coat seemed to clear it up. I will be wet and dry sanding and re taping before a further 3 light coats are applied. The body color should prove interesting, Still sanding and refining before any Indian ink is applied. So far, so good.
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