Best timber type?

[Shayne]

Thanks Brendan,

I pulled the trigger on the RC-1 this morning. I plan on going for a solid colour based on the basswood being a little soft and a generally unimpressive timber to stain. I have some experience in automotive spray painting (mostly acrylic and some 2 pack), but never a solid colour over timber. I guess you would need to prep with an overall grain filler - sand, primer coat - sand then colour coat - sand - buff or sand then clear coat? I've got a compressor and guns etc, but suspect a good job could be achieved with rattle cans?Would like to hear your thoughts if you've got time. Also, how do you deal with the edge binding? I suspect you would tape off the thicker edge (on the sides of the guitar) but what about the thin top edge? could you just sand or scrape off paint as applied - is the binding made of a hard material that can be wet n dry sanded back to original? P.S. I really like the look/colour of the RC-1 on the left of screen (greeny/blue) on PB's you tube pro-mo (the one where Adam and friends are siting around on the lounges). P.P.S what is GAS? Cheers

[wokkaboy]

Hi Shayne,
yes the procedure you explained sounds pretty spot on. Tape off the side of the binding and it can get wet sanded or scraped to clean it up.
You can get good results from rattle cans but the more expensive cans will give you better results.
GAS is Guitar Aquisition Syndrome so basically builders finish one kit and order the next, and the next etc !