Finished scraping the bindings this morning so thought I'd snap a couple quick pics before I move on to clear coats. I'm pretty happy with it!
After applying a few coats of amber dye to the body of the guitar, I started mixing up dye for the neck and sunburst. I was going for a reddish brown and the neck came out pretty much how I wanted. I am once again using water-based lacquer, but for this build I decided to also use Target EM1000 sanding sealer. I sprayed 2 light coats on the entire guitar to seal the neck and amber colour. I have read that some guys use the sanding sealer to spray colour, so that's what I did. I started off spraying the colour lightly, and eventually sprayed 3 progressively darker coats until I got a nice burst. The very last time I sprayed I mixed in a little bit of black pigment and used my airbrush just around the edges. I have a couple imperfections around the edges of the binding but I think this will cover them. I still have to clean up a little overspray and scrape the bindings before I move on to clear coats. So far I am pretty happy with it though, especially considering this is my first time attempting a sunburst! |
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