NGD! Look at my new TELE! Calling Ramo.....

Thanks voodoo. I knew this guitar was going to be a project. It started with the crooked neck, and finished with fixing the one Floyd Saddle and body chunks missing and final painting and reassembly.
 
the telecaster I did a fabric finish on, with many coats of sealer and spray lacquer, took about 15 months I had it by the wood stove for nearly a whole winter until my wife begged me to put it in the workshop

I mentioned somewhere here she is a patient woman, but she has limits I am constantly testing LOL
 
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the telecaster I did a fabric finish on, with many coats of sealer and spray lacquer, took about 15 months I had it by the wood stove for nearly a whole winter until my wife begged me to put it in the workshop

I mentioned somewhere here she is a patient woman, but she has limits I am constantly testing LOL
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Same questions to you, Voodoo. What products did you use? Spray can, Auto type spray gun type, Stew Mac Color Tone, Auto Lacquer, Mohawk, or what?
 
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Woah, Iron. Cured enough to wet sand, or cured enough to call it fully cured?

What materials did you use?
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Wet sand and re-coat.

I bought it stripped down after someone had tried to put a wrap on it, like the kind people put on cars for advertising. Took me like 2 weeks to get all the adhesive off it. So, I'm thinking that had something to do with the cure time.

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These are the only pix I have of it. A buddy popped up one day and randomly told me he was dying to find one of these (late 80s NJ Warlock) and when I told him about this one, he bought it from me. I was happy to sell at that point cause I was so irritated with the adhesive and 6 months cure time I didn't want anything to do with it anymore. :ROFLMAO:
 
geez it was eight or nine years ago! And I would NOT recommend the sealer I used. Though in hindsight, I suspect didn't let maerials gas off/cure enough before recoating, which explains
why it was too soft to even hardly touch for a year. Acrylic clear for sure, probably krylon, not sure of the sealer. It was a high solids/high build sanding sealer . I still have the can, I can check later. It was more
the sealer i suspect., too much, too fast. Like the Good Lord says, you cannot build your house upon the sand, and when you do fabric finishes, you have to build up quite a LOT

But it's awesome now! Hey @Robert Von Herndon check out these awesome saddles, this is how cowboys ride, you dang city slicker

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Thanks Iron and Voodoo, I love that Tele, Voo.

I think I am going to go with StewMac's and get 3 cans or aerosol or 1 quart of the air brush/air spray gun type. It will be nice to seal in this beautiful green and get the shiny glittery bits protected.

This is according to the StewMac procedure for clears.
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Clear Coats
ColorTone Aerosol Guitar Lacquer
— or —
ColorTone Nitrocellulose Guitar Lacquer
4-10 coats (4-8 for thin "vintage" finish)
• 2-3 coats per day • 1-2 hours apart​

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Wet Sand and Buff
Allow finish to cure 10-14 days
Wet sand with 800-grit and finer sanding papers, then buff to a high-gloss using sanding papers, polishes, and buffers.
More info on wet sanding.
More info on buffing.​
 
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Thanks Iron.

I just plunked down a whopping $34 for my new LVMP gun. I know I will add a regulator and other costs to the clear coat job, but I wanted to use my own compressor instead of my buddy's for other jobs in the future. But he has a nice large compressor and the piping to remove water etc. His garage is also heated, which will improve my results since our weather has gone into the 40's in daytime.

Anyway, here is a foreign film where the painter has the same gun and makes a sweet green paint job like my Jackson color on a part. Check it out, the sweet shiny gloss has me excited to see mine. He does the green from about 8-10 minute mark.

 
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