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GrantB wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 7:38 pm

StrummersOfThunder wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 7:14 pm

GrantB wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 6:47 pm StewMac tints are great.

I think we need a conversation over the phone and I can work through The detail with you. I have tints available and happy to donate a few mls, but logistics will be a challenge I’m assuming?

Nothing wrong with a couple of blokes donating a few mls to each other. Tho logistics can be challenging from what I've heard.

I’m giving the mls, just to be clear.

robthemac wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 7:40 pm The locally acquired stuff just isn't giving me the effect I wanted, Ants.

StrummersOfThunder wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 8:18 pm

robthemac wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 7:40 pm The locally acquired stuff just isn't giving me the effect I wanted, Ants.

Pee coloured laquer ?

robthemac wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 5:12 pm Changed my pressure to a lot higher and it worked a treat. Sprayed a matching headstock about two weeks ago. Sanded it up today, and it's pretty much a perfect mirror finish even before buffing and polishing. It's so thin that it's checking already!

Reg18 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 5:50 pm

robthemac wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 5:12 pm Changed my pressure to a lot higher and it worked a treat. Sprayed a matching headstock about two weeks ago. Sanded it up today, and it's pretty much a perfect mirror finish even before buffing and polishing. It's so thin that it's checking already!

I’ll be painting another guitar soon too, keen for any tips.
I bought a 4 litre of the ppg speedlac ready to go. Is that what you used?

Reg18 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 6:30 pm 4l was the smallest they would sell me! I’m
Sure it won’t be the last guitar I paint though.
I am going to need some amber tint for the top coats but yet to figure out how much. Going to try a lemony yellow burst I think but I’ll do some testing first to see how it goes. Not sure weather to stain the bare wood with the lemon yellow/amber then do some lacquer coats and then the darker edge for a burst and then more top coats, or do a sanding sealer coat or 2, then try and stain/spray over the top of that?

GrantB wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 7:48 pm Bursts require some finesse on the delivery that's hard to articulate from a keyboard...best I can say is its like you're aiming for the centre of the guitar from way out past the edge, and 50% of the spray hits perpendicular to the edge, and the rest feathers outs over the flat...and you follow the profile of the outside edge.

Reg, I'm not sure how you'd use stain for a burst. If you want a dark lemon to a clear/amber, use how I described and burst it. Takes many many coats of fine spray - altho Fender didn't...they were sloppy. Couple of squirts of the dark, and bam.

This is nitro, shot only with either amber or amber and tint (brown). True two tone burst. You can achieve a lemon burst like this. Happy to help.

robthemac wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 5:12 pm Changed my pressure to a lot higher and it worked a treat. Sprayed a matching headstock about two weeks ago. Sanded it up today, and it's pretty much a perfect mirror finish even before buffing and polishing. It's so thin that it's checking already!

GrantB wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 7:48 pm Bursts require some finesse on the delivery that's hard to articulate from a keyboard...best I can say is its like you're aiming for the centre of the guitar from way out past the edge, and 50% of the spray hits perpendicular to the edge, and the rest feathers outs over the flat...and you follow the profile of the outside edge.

Reg, I'm not sure how you'd use stain for a burst. If you want a dark lemon to a clear/amber, use how I described and burst it. Takes many many coats of fine spray - altho Fender didn't...they were sloppy. Couple of squirts of the dark, and bam.

This is nitro, shot only with either amber or amber and tint (brown). True two tone burst. You can achieve a lemon burst like this. Happy to help.