What Do You Clean With And What Do You Fill Dents With?

[icetrey]

A couple of questions before I spray my guitar. If you've sanded you're guitar down to the grain, what do you clean it with before sparying? Just water, or something else. And also, I have a little ding in my guitar that I wanna fix before I spray. It's not very deep at all but since I've sanded down this much I might as well fix it. I'm not doing a wood grain finish so the color of whatever filler I use shouldn't matter. What would you guys use?

[Nitefly SA]

i fill with bondo, sand your body to about 300 and then wipe down with a slightly wet paper towel and i didnt know if you were going to, you didnt mention it, but you should put a sanding sealer on there

[al heeley]

SOme people recommend wet sanding to help raise the grain then knock it off with the fine sandpaper for a really smooth finish, then a couple of coats of sanding sealer. This is probably more important for a really good transparent or translucent grain-effect finish. For an opaque colour, sanding sealer plus undercoat depending on final colour/finish.

[Racer X]

I use Evercoat, a poly filler that's VERY easy to work with and sand, and it doesn't shrink like some lower-grade filler will.