Preserving An Autograph

[Optiquest]

People have recommened I use lacquer, would a 'gloss' bottle of http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Finishing_supp...ar_Lacquer.html

work?

[tdog]

It all depends on what the autograph was written with. When I first started building basses, I wanted to sign the back of the headstock. I first used a Sharpie and lacquered over it.....The lacquer started to dissolve the Sharpie ink as soon as lacquer was sprayed over it.........I since use a paint pen. Do your own experiment.....Take and mark something with a Sharpie an try some Poly over it.....Poly may not dissolve the Sharpie ink.

[Optiquest]

It all depends on what the autograph was written with. When I first started building basses, I wanted to sign the back of the headstock. I first used a Sharpie and lacquered over it.....The lacquer started to dissolve the Sharpie ink as soon as lacquer was sprayed over it.........I since use a paint pen. Do your own experiment.....Take and mark something with a Sharpie an try some Poly over it.....Poly may not dissolve the Sharpie ink.

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He signed it with a silver marker(the marker itself was silver, and it wrote silver) that I'm guessing was a paint pin. I have a squier that I can ruin, I just need to know what to look for.

[tdog]

It all depends on what the autograph was written with. When I first started building basses, I wanted to sign the back of the headstock. I first used a Sharpie and lacquered over it.....The lacquer started to dissolve the Sharpie ink as soon as lacquer was sprayed over it.........I since use a paint pen. Do your own experiment.....Take and mark something with a Sharpie an try some Poly over it.....Poly may not dissolve the Sharpie ink.

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He signed it with a silver marker(the marker itself was silver, and it wrote silver) that I'm guessing was a paint pin. I have a squier that I can ruin, I just need to know what to look for.

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You can find a paint pen at any artist supply store......You don't have to try it on your squire to see if it will work.......you can write something on a paint can and experiment if you have to......You only need to see if the lacquer or poly will dissolve the paint pen markings.

Then again,if it is paint pen, you maynot have to do a thing to it for permanence.

Let us know how this works out...I'm curious.

[erikbojerik]

You can cover any kind of pen ink with any kind of clear really, if you do very light mist coats first. Just spray on a very light dusting of clear, let it dry, and repeat this way until the signature is covered. Then proceed with the thicker coats. Rattle cans or Preval spray units are good for this, they apply it pretty light.

The ink smears because the clear is flowing out; light dust coats won't flow.

[Optiquest]

You can cover any kind of pen ink with any kind of clear really, if you do very light mist coats first.  Just spray on a very light dusting of clear, let it dry, and repeat this way until the signature is covered.  Then proceed with the thicker coats.  Rattle cans or Preval spray units are good for this, they apply it pretty light.

The ink smears because the clear is flowing out; light dust coats won't flow.

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Can you give me some links of these products?

[marksound]

I saw a Preval sprayer thing at Ace Hardware* the other day in the crafts section.

*US, maybe regional.

[erikbojerik]

I got my Prevals at Home Depot. "Rattle cans" are just spray cans (i.e. spray-on polyurethane).

[Optiquest]

So a 'clear gloss' bottle of http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Finishing_supp...ar_Lacquer.html

would work?