Finishing Disaster

[Marzocchi705]

I went to look at my guitar today to find that a news paper had been placed on top of it, the laquer was still curing. I went and lifted off the paper to find that it pulled some of my finish of leaving this.

Now i have to do the whole thing again, and whats really odd is i could just pull the finish of, it came off easyily.

Any tips on how i can get better adheasion of the laquer?

[rhoads56]

what type of lacquer?? What grit did you sand with prior to lacquering??

[Marzocchi705]

Its an acrylic bassed laquer from halfords and i sanded to 400 grit.

[JohnJohn]

Ouch,too bad looks like it would have been nice.

[Devon Headen]

That could be a problem. I'd think anything above 320 would be risky. Once you get an area peeling it won't stick very well anyway.

[Marzocchi705]

My sandpaper went from 280 to 400, so i thought the slightly lighter paper would have been better. Im gona give it another try tomoro. Any other tips for surface prep while im here?

[Maiden69]

You could use 400 or even 600, this are the grits that I use for the final sanding on primer. And on my 7 I sanded to 320 before the stain.

I had the same problem with my blue Ash guitar. the problem was that the base was not compatible with the clear coat, I know that somebody else had the same problem here.

I used metalcast blue as the tones color, and then used Olympic oil based as the clear.

Here is a link to the thread.