Help Me Choose My Finish?

[Mickguard]

I'll be ready to start on the finish for my Bocaster project (I detail that in the projects in progress section).

I left the primer/sealer coat on most of the guitar and I'll be sealing and priming the newly exposed wood parts.

Then I'm going to want to finish it with an opaque color --probably as close as I can get to vintage white as possible.

I'd like to get a NON-GLOSSY finish like you find on older Fenders --I definitely don't want the ultra-shiny poly type finish like what was on this guitar originally.

I figure I'll use automotive spray paint for the primer and color coats. Should I stick with automotive spray paint for the lacquer coats?

Can anyone give me a step by step --or point me to good resources? (Most of the finishing sites I've looked at are based in the States....so I'm not always sure which products are available to me here in France).

Thanks!

mickey

[Maiden69]

I don't know what you mean by non glossy, becaue all Fender finishes are shinny, my neighboor back home had a 50's strat and that thing shinned loike a new one.

As far as the color, here is a link to ReRanch, they have the vintage white, the exact one used a ton of years ago.

http://reranch.august.net/products.html

And here is one to a guitar finished by one of their customer,

http://reranch.august.net/vcream.html

I think that they are too pricey, but if you want that color, unless you take a guitar finished in that color to an auto finishing and tell them to use the computer to match it. and then you need painting equipment.

[Mickguard]

Hi,

Well, there's shiny....and then there's that blinding plastic stuff that was on my guitar before I sanded it...

I've seen reranch, but I don't think they'll send it overseas...anyway, I don't need the exact color, just something similar. It's mostly the type of paint that I need that I'm not sure about.

Thanks,

mickey

[Maiden69]

Overseas.... I don't know too much, I was in Germany and when I had to paint somenthing Igave to a friend how spoke german and he went to his mechanic, so I got no I dea were, but there are places that have the computer thingy, I think that they are a lot more now that a few years back, and you can get it matched to your color. If you don't want to use poly, get enamel laquer from an auto place. Or try to find a place were they can mix the color on nitro.