Hi Fender, I used Tru Oil tinted with Mixol on my first build and I think It came out okay. Wondering now if I can spray Nitro over the top, some advice said yes, others said no. I think the colours of Dingotone appealed and it seemed like an easy application watching the You tube vids.
Have decided to go with tinted nitro on my next build seeing as my beautiful wife bought me an airbrush kit. Gonna take some practice first though I think.
When I find something that works I try to stick with it. I don't know Mixol, but it's hard to argue with good results ;-)Originally Posted by OEG69
There are people here who love nitro, but I have never used it. I am not sure I am capable of caring for a nitro finished guitar in a way that would keep the finish intact, even if I got it on well. ;-) Hopefully someone will chime in about using it.
To questions of "can I put X over Y" I generally think it's safest to either (a) try on a test piece and see, or (b) try it on a guitar and be prepared to do something else if the answer is no. Even that is not for sure. As I have found out with some General Finishes products it can take a while for problems to show up.
When in doubt, my go-to is to (a) make sure the under coat is 100% cured before putting anything over it, and (b) putting a couple of coats of platina shellac over the top.
From what I gather, Dingotone used natural oils of some undisclosed sort, which may have been part of the reason for the instability. I have tinted shellac, and brushed it on. The results on my test pieces were quite good. The only reason I didn't do it on a guitar is that I was not getting a color I liked...but if you do, I see no reason why this couldn't work. Most people who do this on the web seem to spray, which should be even better.
I tried Keda and "metho" (here we say denatured alcohol) and it worked fine. Tinted shellac is mostly metho, anyway.
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