Thanks guys. Quick question. How many clear coats is enough? I'm not going too heavy, 4 on so far.
Thanks guys. Quick question. How many clear coats is enough? I'm not going too heavy, 4 on so far.
Pretty happy so far. Will leave it at 6 coats of clear and let it cure up now.
Andrew, what clear are you spraying ? acrylic ? If you have applied 4 I'd let it cure for couple of weeks and give it a polish and see how it looks and see how hard and thick the coat looks. Generally if it looks thick enough it should be ok. The more coats you put on the more you will kill the natural tone of the timber
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
Hey mate, nah I'm using 2k clear. The tds for it reckons 12 hours curing til its sandable which is pretty cool. No more waiting around for ages to get the polishing going.
Going on a pic upload rampage for this and the Tele.
looking good Andrew,
soon you will have 3 builds on the go, then 4, then 5...................... haha
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
Yeah I'll be starting a stock ib7 in a few weeks then the custom should arrive in October. Maybe on Sunday during that sale if a 5 string bass comes up at a good price I'll be adding that as well.
With great sadness I bring you this post. When I was painting the clears I noticed a few uneven raises bits on the sides of the body and the back of the neck and head stock. After knocking them back with wet dry last night I found out they are pin holes. The front of the body is unharmed. My only guess as to why is that the 2k clear hates stains as a substrate. My reason for suspecting this is I put down 2 fine coats of rattle can acrylic clear over the top as a sealer before I did the burst.
The paint ratios are the same as the Tele, same gun, same settings, same pressure, sprayed at the same time and the Tele turned out epic save for a bit of orange peek.
Next step is to get the 240 out and start again. Yay. This time I'll be sealing it up before the 2k goes on.
Sad part is when I bought the lle fw stains the hardware shop rang the rep to order it. I asked him myself if the stain was able to have 2k clears over it and what drying time would I need to give it. He said next day and no dramas, would work fine. Unhappy but not the end of the world.
bummer Andrew, there's too many things that can go wrong mixing paints, oh well more sanding practice and lesson learnt !
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
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