FrankeWashie's EXA 1 customised kit

[wazkelly]

Keep at it Frankie, those micro mesh pads can sometimes create a bit of magic. A few more clear top coats sometimes helps to hide or disguise bad preps plus give a bit more platform for the final polishing process to work with.

[FrankenWashie]

Thanks Waz. It really is only the body that bugs me. I'll get some photos up and you'll see what I mean.

[wazkelly]

Cheers Bro, keep your chin up.

Look on the bright side, it could be worse.......it could have turned out sea foam green!!!!!

[FrankenWashie]

If SFG becomes evident this will happen to insure the infection does not spread

[wazkelly]

Little bit of Voodoo Child happening there......hope you don't have to resort to that on this or any other build.

[FrankenWashie]

Well, life gets you preoccupied with inconsequential things, like working.

Having looked at the burn through and associated yuck that was going on, I decided that the back could be salvaged with some more coats of Finish, but that the front was a disaster and something drastic would have to be done.

So I masked off tightly and stripped back just the fun and the front of the headstock. All turned out good, it allowed me to do some flattening off of bit I wasn't happy with.

I resanded through to 320 and then used a fresh Black Stump kit to apply colour. It had the unintended effect of making it much darker than the first effort so i was quite pleased.

Two coats on, and no dramas, I decided to go for a third coat. Shouldn't have.



Its not sticky or gluggy, its just gone weird. Is this the dreaded Humidity gremlins?

Is this a case of sand back and start again or shall I give it a light rub back with a high grit and move to Intensifier?

Do I cut losses and sand back and spray now?

All suggestions welcome.

[wazkelly]

Hi Frankie, Yep, I have seen that same thing happen on both of my Explorer builds and best way to get it sorted is wet sanding with 1200 or higher. Just make sure you rinse the paper every few swipes and also wipe up the dampness so that you can keep an eye on things. So easy to cut through to bare timber if not paying attention as I found out the hard way too many times.

Once salvaged if there is still plenty of depth to the base coats suggest moving on to the intensifier, but no more than 2 coats otherwise you risk this funky crap happening all over again. Andy is probably best person for tips on how to finish with top coats as I never got that far and used another product that shalt not be named which did the trick without any dramas.

Cheers, Waz

[Andy40]

Hey FW, that's the classic sign of too much DT final coat, (or an application of another coat over a non-cured previous coat), I'm sorry to say. I haven't had this issue with DT MKII...did you get it in a plastic or silver bottle?

There's only one cure, to sand it off.

To add insult to injury here FW you have to wait for it to cure before you can effectively sand it off (without taking off the undercoats). If you sand too early it will ball up and go a but gluggy.

If you sand too much and take off stain, you can spot stain and spot re-intensify.

Check how much DT final you have left, You may not have enough to re-finish? If you don't have enough and you are determined to finish it in DT, I have a bunch of DT MKI finals you can use.

Alternatively, a cheap fix is to buy some tru oil and finish that over the top. Waz and I are experts at that fix

(sorry, I should add that the humidity doesn't cause stuff like this, it just lengthens drying/curing time.)

Good luck mate, I know your pain

[FrankenWashie]

Hi Andy Thanks for the info, I have not actually started the intensifier or the final on this, its actually just the stain coat at this point.

@Wazkelly, i'll give that a go, I have 3 stain base coats on there so I think i should be okay for colour depth. I did extra work on flattening it off before i wen back to stain so hopefully this will come good. Thanks for the reply.

[wazkelly]

As Andy said, may be a good idea to leave things for a week or more so that it fully dries out before you attack it with the wet & dry.