I began clear coating the guitar this morning! It seems like everything I have tried to do on this guitar wanted to be difficult. I managed to fix up the majority of the finish problems I have in the last post - we'll see how it looks when its complete!
When I painted on the binding, it was difficult to get the white to adequately cover the black finish right on the very edges. Eventually I got it, but had to put several coats on it.
Then, once I was happy with the painted binding, I removed all of the tape to find that a lot of white had bled through the masking tape! So then I had to carefully use a razor blade to scrape the white paint off the black and try to keep a uniform looking binding. This was tedious to say the least!
Then, once I was happy with the painted binding, I removed all of the tape to find that a lot of white had bled through the masking tape! So then I had to carefully use a razor blade to scrape the white paint off the black and try to keep a uniform looking binding. This was tedious to say the least!
While scraping the "binding" couple spots the black paint chipped off, so then I had to drop fill these spots with black lacquer using a tooth pick.
I sanded the entire guitar with 800 grit and 1000 grit sandpaper, only to find I had a couple more flaws in my black finish, so then I had to fog some of these spots in with my airbrush.
I sanded the entire guitar with 800 grit and 1000 grit sandpaper, only to find I had a couple more flaws in my black finish, so then I had to fog some of these spots in with my airbrush.
I was a bit worried about removing the masking tape from the fretboard since I had so many problems when painting the binding. Thankfully it came off quite well and I only had to touch up one spot with a razor blade and I cleaned any sticky residue off the naptha.
Also cleaned up the headstock logo yesterday. It doesn't look too bad, although I'm not entirely happy with it. If I ever have to do job like this again I will have to find a better way of masking/spraying something like this. Very tedious work! A couple spots in the logo appear darker then others but I am hoping this will go away once I start clear coating.