Basecoat Spray and 220 Sanding - Finish Hall

[club805clothing]

Do you ever burn through basecoat on the binding? Do you guys paint your binding to hide pits you have fixed or burns etc? Thanks

[JgHaverty]

I think PRS spends the gross domestic product of malaysia on sandpaper lol

[Gorbyrev]

give the guy some credit - it takes a lot of guts to take a sander to other peoples work - good on you Jason!

[AsPaderasUCanBe]

yeah... i just watched a video of a guy sanding the whole guitar.... how boring



[Fons1958]

@intrsoul, the "secret" is that the sprayer spray's a little extra clear on scharp edges, preventing the sander from sanding through.

[kerranz]

Next time we get to see the paint dry?

Good to see those Georgia Degrees are still paying off bigtime. (Go Gators!)

[mrichman]

Is the base coat polyurethane or polyester? I've heard that both can clog the pores of the wood and choke the resonance, as opposed to nitrocellulose or a natural oil finish.

[zenzeypher]

@mrichman there's no such thing as tone wood for electric guitars.

Plugged in a plastic guitar would sound the same as mahogany...wood only slightly effects the vibration of the strings - and even that's depending.

[chickenbeek]

@zenzeypher Um, no.

Clearly you have not played an ash guitar compared to a mahogany guitar, there's an absolute 180 degree difference.

[zenzeypher]

@chickenbeek

I have, anybody that says there's tone wood for a jacking in Electric guitar is giving science a big fat smack in the face.

it doesn't make sense - you can stick that pickup in a cement block - as soom as you plug that in there's little difference.... if wood effected AC current generating amplified tone we'd be in a world of trouble.

[BigBlackPug]

Almost looks abusive!

The man is an artist.

[F3FisGoodforYou]

@BigBlackPug ... oh come on... this is just sanding, not even close to be a real Luthier... anybody can do that with a bit of training... I remember I had a CE24 and they certainly forgot this step because the varnish on the back of the neck was all spotty..

[intrsoul]

As a hobby guitar re-finisher, I wonder what the secret is to getting the same amount of clear on the edges as on the top and back. Edges don't seem to hold as much base/clear, so it's very easy to sand through the clear. Hmm....

[jahenx94]

American Guitars FTW

[fendermac]

If I had the money I could quite fancy an 'orange peel' finish before this man does his work....looks quite characterful

[screechweasel]

Wow, you definitely get what you pay for with PRS.

[sportsportsport]

This is why PRS guitars look spotless, but cost more.

[bulletproofprs]

@sportsportsport

ya you get what you pay for

[PestVic]

sounds a little off. but damn thats awesome